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The Shrinking Price of Mobile

On January 23rd, 2012, posted in: Mobile, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

While it seems the cost of owning and operating a mobile phone only seems to go up, when we take a look back at where mobile phones were 30 years ago and where we are today, we are getting a pretty good deal all in all. The Motorola DynaTAC introduced 30 years ago cost..

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Patent Evil

On November 12th, 2011, posted in: Computers, Mobile, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

You’ve no doubt seen or heard about patent lawsuits regarding high tech this year. Around the world and across America, various companies are suing each other over the patents they have and what they feel are other companies intruding on those patents. Many blame the patent system that allows such simple and obvious functions like..

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The Amazing, Blazing, Recession-Defying Tablet

On October 22nd, 2011, posted in: Computers, Mobile, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

Tablets are in….way in. Despite decades of trying to come up with a portable single surfaced device, tablets never caught on till Apple released the iPad in 2010. Suddenly the demand and the technology were both there to make it all work and now tablets will soon take over netbook sales and could someday soon..

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Patent Wars

On October 12th, 2011, posted in: Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

You know something is hot when lawyers start threatening over patents. In the digital age patents have been introduced for everything from Java code to one-touch shopping. Where patents were once look at as a way of encouraging innovation, creativity and ingenuity, there are many people out there now making very credible claims as to how patents..

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iPhone Comes to Verizon

On January 11th, 2011, posted in: Mobile, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

We certainly won’t be breaking any news here today sharing the announcement from Verizon that they will begin selling a 3G CDMA version of the iPhone beginning February 10th. There will undoubtedly be lines around the block in cities across America to finally be able to use this phone on a more stable and far reaching network...