I never really liked having a blog anyway, as you can tell from my irregular additions.
I am taking a cue from the rapid growth of Google+…and making this my last post.
If you want to know what I have to say, visit me at Facebook and/or Google+.
See you there…
Gregg
I’m on the radio all this week talking about using your smartphone to unlock all the doors in your life.
You can find out more by reading stories like this one in THE NEW YORK TIMES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/technology/04key.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=technology
PCMag.com sent six drivers in two cars with 18 mobile phones…
…out on a 6,000-mile journey across America to test the speed of eight mobile networks:
The results are remarkably useful, but keep in mind:
You can choose speed
Or you can choose an unlimited data plan
Or you can choose to save money on mobile broadband
But you can’t have all three.
See the PCMag.com story, they break it all down for
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So you think GAS is expensive?
Wait until you start seeing the price of INTERNET BANDWIDTH start exploding.
No, wait…you don’t have to wait.
The price of Internet bandwidth is ALREADY going up.
And the rising cost of Internet bandwidth is probably going force you…
…to make some interesting choices:
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Are you always running out of juice on your phone before the end of the day?
There’s a great story in THE NEW YORK TIMES that offers tips on how to preserve your phone battery life: Click to read more!
Osama bin Laden is dead.
But here’s what we can all learn from him about technology:
TECH TIP #1:
YOU DON’T HAVE TO OWN AN IPHONE OR SONY PLAYSTATION…
…TO BE TRACKED OR HACKED
Over the last few weeks…
…the two big tech stories have been about iPhones tracking you and Sony PlayStation being hacked.
End result for you:
Your gaming system revealed to others WHO are you
Your
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There was a bit of trouble over the weekend in Google-Land…
…when the company realized that some users had lost access to some of their mail and folders in their Gmail accounts.
Even though Google says none of the mail was lost and all mail will be fully restored…
…this incident should be a wakeup call for all of us about finding ways to back up all the data we have stored in the cloud.
So how do you backup data in the cloud?
Here’s what you need to know…
…from this article at AOL’s Switched.com:
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In the coming months…
…you are going to hear more and more talk about mobile phones becoming electronic wallets.
But wait a minute…
…isn’t your phone already an ewallet???
Well, um, yes.
And if your phone is not ALREADY an ewallet…
…then your iPod or iPad IS an ewallet, even if you don’t eknow it.
And when it comes to ewallets…
…here’s what you need to know:
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Thursday is Verizon iPhone Day…
…and the beginning of Verizon iPhone Week.
But even if you don’t want a Verizon iPhone…
…here are a few things you should think about while the rest of the world goes iPhone-crazy (again):
1. YOU PROBABLY HAVE THE WRONG PHONE
Even if you don’t want an iPhone…
…this is probably a great time to scare your current carrier into giving you a great new phone for
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This week, the people behind both the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers…
…have announced new technology to be built into their browsers that will let you control whether online advertisers can collect and store info about you as you surf the web.
Last month, Microsoft made a similar announcement about their Internet Explorer web browser.
Google, Mozilla and Microsoft are creating these new privacy features…
…in response a recommendation from the Federal
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