I have a freckle-like mark on my cheek that my wife has deemed “suspicious” and I’m looking for a nearby dermatologist, which should be no problem. I live in one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the country, right near a hospital that’s surrounded by doctors’ offices. So I just type the query into [...]
So, according to some unseen mystical force on the internet, today is World Backup Day. I’m reviewing an online backup service called CrashPlan (look for a full review in a few weeks), and they, among others, want me to spread the word that if you take the time to back up your data now, you [...]
When Time Warner Cable launched its video streaming app for the iPad, broadcasters got cranky. TWC hadn’t bothered to ask for permission or offered to pay higher rates to the channel owners whose content it was now making available as streaming video to iPad-owning TWC subscribers. You’ve heard the old saying about how it’s better [...]
Amazon is quickly establishing itself as a dominant player in the software world, particularly in the mobile space. The company has a video streaming service, an app store, sorry, “appstore,” and has had a digital music store for some time. Not to mention the Kindle e-reader platform. Yesterday, Amazon took another step in its transformation [...]
If you’re out shopping for a new Nintendo 3DS (and you should be), don’t forget to take your old DS (or DSi, or DS Lite, or DSi XL) with you. Several retailers are offering trade-in programs that give you credit towards a new 3DS in exchange for your old handheld. Walmart, for example, has a [...]
Business deals don’t get fun until they get personal. And today, the AT&T/T-Mobile deal just got nasty, with Sprint and AT&T going at it in the media. When AT&T announced last weekend its intent to buy T-Mobile for billion, Sprint put out a news release that didn’t flat-out object to the deal, but called on [...]
If you saw the news a couple days ago about Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference scheduled to start on June 6, you probably assumed the keynote speech would include an unveiling of the iPhone 5. That’s certainly what I assumed, given that that has been the venue for new iPhone launches the last few years. [...]
I noted last month that both the Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G have great download speeds, but that AT&T disabled a function called HSUPA (for High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) on both devices. So the upload speeds on both phones were inch-worm slow. That’s generally not a huge deal for most users, but if [...]
Back in the early days of this blog, we frequently wrote about electric cars. It was an interesting topic for a technology then in its infancy, and seemed to gin up a lot of conversation among readers. It’s been awhile since our last e-car rant, but, man, do I feel one coming on now. Texas [...]
Here are my reviews from today’s paper of the HTC Thunderbolt smartphone (Verizon’s first 4G LTE phone) and the glasses-free, 3-D-capable Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console. That’s right. Two reviews in one day. You’re welcome, America. Quick take: I love them both. But while I was expecting great things from the Thunderbolt, I was [...]
