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We Need a MiFi With A Built In Wireless Router

I was just reading about a new miniature Femtocell and was thinking, you know what would be really great, a Femtocell built into a MiFi along with a traditional wireless router.  I have found myself more then once in a nice hotel that thought they were doing me a favor offering free internet if I [...]

Android Needs To Have A Vanilla Option For All Handsets

Android is getting a bad name in terms of fragmentation. It really is if I’m getting asked about it by my non mobile/non tech friends and I am, every weekend when I see them let alone the parents at my daughters school asking me about it.  Android is just getting slammed.  people know what they [...]

PR Firms Are Building Armies

I’ve been noticing over the last few years that the more successful PR firms in terms of getting bloggers to write about whatever their clients do are doing 1 specific thing.  They are all creating relationships with bloggers that aren’t about the product.  They aren’t only building on “look at this phone or that phone and write [...]

Sadly I Need An Alarm System For My Home

So last night I pulled into my driveway after a nice birthday dinner for my mother in law to find someone waiting by their car with a shattered window and 1 less purse then she started with when she pulled up infront of my house.  This is very disturbing by itself but even more upsetting [...]

AT&T Seems To Be “Faster” And “Better”

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I feel like AT&T service for all their niggles has gotten faster and more reliable.  I was thinking about this just last week.  I drove by a street corner where I used to drop calls most of the time but guess what, no dropped call.  I was at [...]

T-Mobile’s 1700MHz Band Is Bad For AT&T

I’ve been against this whole AT&T – T-Mobile merger from the start.  I didn’t think it was good for the many thousands of T-Mobile employees who’d lose their job.  I didn’t think it would be good for international travelers roaming in the US.  And I didn’t think it would be good for AT&T customers. That’s [...]

Credit Is Due To Nokia, Color Me Impressed

I was very excited to wake up this morning to read what Nokia had announced.  I’ve been stewing on it all day and intentionally not commenting.  I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to like let alone be impressed with today’s announcements.  I’m still bitter about Nokia fumbling Symbian so badly and going with Windows [...]

Hey Carriers We Need New Plans With More Data And Fewer Minutes

This one is for the carriers out there that might be reading this.  If you work for a carrier send this up the pipe so the right execs can smoke it. Now to business, I’m tiered of our current mobile service plans.  I use my iPhone for everything, voice, SMS and data.  But my problem [...]

What Ever Happened To Google Latitude?

What ever happened to Latitude?  I had such high hopes for Google Latitude back in the day.  It had so much potential to be a game changer.  I was hoping to have heavy tie in to Android devices but haven’t seen it once. I loved the idea of landing in London and having all my [...]

I Need A Java App To Track A Senior Citizen ASAP

Tuesday was a rough day in our family but it made me recognize a need for a service that may or may not exist. I don’t want to go into details but we’re very glad that my father in law is home safe and we’re grateful to a very thoughtful gas station attendant and Anaheim [...]

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