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Verizon Wireless bandwidth, call minutes limits: there has to be a better way
I have been on a work vacation in Florida this week and have used my iPhone hotspot for Internet access. Since that costs $20 a month and it was $30 for a week of the timeshare’s WiFi, I opted for …
WiFi can make you famous
"Of, so you're John Dodge," the person next to me at lunch said as if he knew me. Well, he did a little even though I had never met
Cable clutter reflects a tethered world (wireless not so much)
In this `not as wireless a world as we like to think,' I am being strangled by cables. I trip over ones around my desk and just organized
The iTunes Hairball
Among Sun Microsystems (now Oracle something or other) founder Scott NcNealy's favorite potshots at Microsoft was calling Windows a "hairball." Know what? iTunes is a bigger
Verizon iPhone announced, arrives early February
The Verizon iPhone arrived at 11 a.m. ET this morning, but Verizon's Wireless (VW) site is very clearly being bombarded with requests. So I grabbed a VW photo
The Smartphone Buyer’s Upgrade Dilemma
If you're eligible for your mobile smartphone upgrade right now, it's a tough time to make a move. And it might be better to wait. I am a Verizon
To 4G or not to 4G
For now, my 4G decision is easy because Verizon has already made it for me. It's way too expensive and I have to wait because the service in
In 2011, lots of un-friending, mobile apps make $$
Below are seven 2011 predictions from Scott Lahman, CEO of GOGII which develops texting apps. If you've got 2011 predictions, send them my way and TDR
Upgrading Desktop PC require work and research, but it handsomely pays off
I just bought a new desktop after eight years living on a Dell 8300 Pentium 4 for which I plunked down $2562 on April 2, 2003. This time around,
`Un-Hoodie-ed’ Zuckerberg Speaks on Privacy
Here's an interesting 52-minute interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg by Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg and D: All Things Digital co-producer and host





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