Per an article in my local St. Louis paper today, Charter Communications, our local cable provider, has scrapped plans to monitor web usage of some of its high-speed internet users. Purportedly, Charter was going to monitor the web activities of…
In my J.O.B. I work for the IT department of a college. Because of my position and my responsibilities, I naturally have access to a whole lot of things I don’t really want to have access to. I have been…
I have to freely admit that in general, I am a fan of AT&T. I know, that just breaks Todd’s heart, but we have AT&T here for our local phone service, our wireless service, and our broadband service. We don’t…
As I noted in another post earlier today, I got a new computer. This meant that three years of Thunderbird mail that I’d decided not to delete needed to move over to the new laptop from the old laptop. If…
Firefox 3 is ready to jump out of Beta and onto our laptops starting Tuesday. Improved features include being able to add keywords to bookmarks to more easily sort them, as well as a new feature that allows users to…
Three days ago I received my new laptop at work. We get new ones every three to five years as part of a normal replacement cycle. The laptop the new one is replacing is a Gateway M275 convertible tablet, which…
I was just toodling around on Engadget and ran across a shortie about AT&T increasing smartphone and 3G by 20%. Since I don’t use either service, I almost passed the article by. But it said AT&T and I have AT&T…