I just bought a milkshake with my phone. That’s right: I strolled into McDonald’s, whipped …

It’s no secret that Research In Motion is in deep trouble. But most analysts expect the company to only further prove that point later today. After the market closes, RIM will announce its fiscal first-quarter earnings, which consensus among Wall Street analysts pegs at a net loss of 3 cents per share on $3.1 billion in revenue. During the same …

Editor’s note: The iPhone is 5 years old. Last year, I reflected on my very first iPhone, and what owning one was like before the smartphone landscape had utterly changed…before the App Store…before iPads. What I wrote last year is still true now, maybe even more so, although one important event has transpired since: Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011, …