Have I Reached My Limit with ATT?
I like my phone. I just got it four or five months ago, and it works well for what I want. It’s a semi-smart phone, which means I can check email from web-based programs (for me, gmail and yahoo mail)…
Not So Fast, Amazon Kindle!
Amazon is strutting around like the cat that ate the canary today, releasing figures that indicate that Kindle books are outselling hardbacks sold on Amazon’s site. While the numbers may not be suspect, the inferences are certainly something to be…
Another AT&T Fail
For the second time in about five weeks, our home-based AT&T DSL went down. I was in the middle of downloading the maps for our trip this week, and creating an email for our house-sitter so she’d know how to…
Microsoft Gets No Love From IBM
“Firefox is now the gold standard for what an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be.” So says Bob Sutor, vice president of Open Source and Linux at IBM. The new default browser for half a million IBM employees worldwide…
Woot.com Now Playing for Team Amazon
I got a strange email from woot.com today. I’m a long-time woot.com customer and have gotten some good deals (and some not so good deals, too). I’ve bought electronics, home appliances, and t-shirts. I visit the site every day to…
Mobile Broadband – Not Quite There Yet
Yesterday I helped my mom buy a new laptop. Her ACER had finally bit the dust in a blaze of fiery wireless glory (don’t ask, it will just make you sad). I bought her a shiny new HP G-series laptop…
Road Trip!
Hubby, the kids and I are going to be running away for a week in the middle of July. We’re leaving hot and steamy St. Louis and headed north to Wisconsin to visit friends and family, and spend a day…