Moving? Move to a WiFi Friendly City!

Christopher Elliott writes for Microsoft Small Business about the Top 5 Wi-Fi friendly cities!

Seattle
San Francisco
Austin, Texas
Portland, Ore.
Atlanta

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Google News for mobile devices

Today, Google announced the availability of Google News for mobile devices, further demonstrating Google’s focus on making the mobile phone a more convenient and reliable device for accessing useful and relevant information while on the …

Day Seven with the Palm Treo 650

OK. These last couple days have been intentionally stretched out a little, so this day is coming a little late. This is the last day I will be reporting on this. This phone has my …

Microsoft Origami Video Leaked?

There were some little comments and preview/undercover type pictures of Microsoft’s supposed next media platform on the web this last week but not really much more info.
Today a friend tipped me off to a …

Apple Announcement Today : That’s it?

OK, I understand that Apple didn’t promise the world they were going to release some new item we all couldn’t live without. I understand that the blog and media hype allowed this announcement to …

Fully washable mice and keyboards for the germophobe in you

There’s a guy at work that comes in on night shift who is a major germophobe and he shares a desk with someone who uses it during the day.  The day shift guy is forever …

New iPod Case…What were they thinking?

So look at the above cases. We have the New iPod Case, the Vaja I-Vod, and the Piel Frama case. All are leather, but too badly the new iPod case is a slip case….so …

The Mac mini

I know that this is not a "portable" device per se . . . but it is definitely small enough to be mobile! Read on.
Apple has unveiled the new Mac mini with the Intel Core …

Jack Cook’s Favorite Game, Cubis…

All of us have their favorite game and I certainly am no exception. There are several that I like to play as a diversion but there is one that I always go back to when …

Origami, Microsoft’s new Pocket PC like device

This may be interesting to keep an eye on.
Microsoft is planning to release a post card sized tablet PC like device that will allow you to play music, browse the web, and use a pen …

Deal on Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS

A few days ago we had posted about a new wrist GPS. But if you still like the looks of the slightly older generation of wrist GPS systems from Garmin, Amazon.com has a great …

Apple MacBook, Keyboardless!

Warning, the following image is not a real product!!!! But I wish it was!
Last week Engadget held a contest to submit ideas, photoshops, etc of what Steve would do. With the "Big" announcement everyone is …

HP iPAQ hx2790 Review

I guess this sounds like an older model, but its not. It’s a reworked version of a previous release. My buddy Jason Dunn had a great description of what this is, a dot release …

Day 3 with Nokia N70: Signal Strength Comparison

Today was a comparison of signal strength day with some of the other phones I have.
The main two phones that I compared to were the Motorola Razr V3 (Direct from Motorola) and the Sony Ericsson T616.
All …

Aximsite Special Edition Sena Case Announced

Aximsite Special Edition Sena Case for the X50/X51!
DELL AXIM X50-X50v-X51-X51v BLACK-METALLIC GREY CASE WITH NO BELT CLIP – AXIMSITE SPECIAL EDITION #1618215 – Buy here!
To ensure that this is a positive venture and Sena doesn’t …

Day 2 with Nokia N70

Well a little late on the posting of Day 2, but anyhow.
I did some more exploring of the Symbian OS and learned a few new tricks. It seems that it is simplistic, but you …

Attention Device Manufacturers: Label your Power Supplies!

Attention Device Manufacturers:
Can we stop using generic power sources for our devices, at least spend a little extra to get your logo or name branded on them somewhere.
You see, the problem is that some …

Day Six with the Palm Treo 650

OK, some rambling today. Nothing really bad.

The clicking noise is apparently not normal, I am going to look into that.
Reiteration – ZLauncher is GOOD!

I have tested the playing on a call works, which I don’t …

Forget carpal tunnel, iPod thumb and texting RSI are the new syndromes to worry about

You may have heard of carpal tunnel syndrome as one of several common Repetetive Stress Injuries, or RSIs, but what about iPod thumb (excessive use of the scroll wheel) or texting RSIs?  According to Virgin …

Does Verizon Wireless Spam their own?

I don’t know personally, but a story over at the Inquirer suggests that they do.
"AN IRATE Verizon Wireless user who complained about spam from his own cellular provider was initially told it was almost impossible …