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Portable Drives for Phones doomed to Fail!

We have come a long way with storage over the past 10 years, drives have gotten smaller, larger capacity, declining price per gig etc and we are in many instances able to take our desktops with us on a USB Memory sticks.

If Google Stock was Lower!

I don't buy much stock, sure we have a retirement plan, mutuals and a IRA but over the past 20 years from time to time I have purchased stock when I thought a company was a good risk. A nice lady I dated in Japan when I was 20, father, was an Executive at Sony (long story there), and he

AT&T Now has the Power to crush Vonage and Others!

I have been very outspoken in recent past about AT&T's growth, primarily the BellSouth merger. While I cannot do anything about that merger except grumble internally, I can keep my eye on the anti-competitive actions of large companies. If the Internet had not evolved the way it has I would almost be willing to call AT&T a monopoly again. But

Netflix Videos to your PC

I talked in my show last night about how Netflix is progressively rolling out a new service for customers to allow them to get videos delivered via the Internet. With those on the $17.99 subscription plan being able to download and watch up to 18 hours of video per month. My biggest issue with Netflix was my own laziness in

Sprint Novatel U720 Review

Well my Sprint Novatel USB Ovation U720 arrived yesterday and after three tries with Sprint was able to get the ESN from my old card swapped to this new one. Overall the performance is great but I was surprised to see that the you have to use a Dual USB Port Dongle with the unit. Thus running the device on your laptop requires the utilisation of two USB ports.

Word of Mouth Marketers Must now Disclose Relationships

For the first time in a long time a decision by the FTC may actually have a positive effect to some bad things that have been happening on the Internet. Primarily that word of mouth marketers may soon be forced to disclose when they have a financial relationship with a vendor.

Skype Unlimited Long Distance USA and Canada $14.95

Well the free ride to make Skype calls to regular land line phones ends Dec 31st, but through the end of the year you can sign up for their half price plan at $14.95 for a year of unlimited long distance calling to the United States and Canada.