International Travellers Hit With Heavy Fees On Their iPhones
If you travel internationally for business, and you have an iPhone, you can expect to be paying quite a bit for the right.
AT&T, the lone carrier of the popular phone in the United States, announced new plans this week for those users who travel internationally. The new plans run $120 a month for 100 megabytes [...]
15 Tools On The Web To Help With Hurricane Gustav
The Internet can be used for any number of purposes, and getting information on pending storms is just one of them.
You can look up just about anything online these days, and detailed information to prepare for a natural disaster is no different. With Hurricane Gustav preparing to hit the United States, there are any number [...]
Comcast To Limit Bandwidth
The largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the USA, Comcast, is set to begin capping bandwidth usage of their residential customers effective October 1st.
The ISP is going to cap bandwidth for their residential customers at 250 gb a month. This would be the equivalent of 125 standard definition movies, or 50 million emails. In other [...]
This Just Proves That No One Is Safe From Computer Viruses
The news that the International Space Station (ISS) has been infected witha c omputer virus pretty much tells you that no one is safe from these annoyances.
Luckily the virus that made it to the space station this past July, Gammima.AG, is directed at only stealing login information for popular online games, and poses no threat [...]
Internet Ports Coming To TVs
Soon your TV will be getting media directly from the Internet, and the world will be a happier place.
The other day we mentioned Voter Registration Comes To The Xbox that you could now register to vote via the Xbox 360, and how we felt this was a sign of things becoming more interconnected and interactive. [...]
What Is StumbleUpon
What is a “stumble”, and why should you care?
Just like when we explained What Is Digg and What Is Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon is one of those sites people talk about, but never really explain to anyone. At the core of Stumble, as most fans call it, it is a social bookmarking site that allows you to [...]
Voter Registration Comes To The Xbox
In a truly odd move, Microsoft has arranged with Rock the Vote to allow people to register to vote via their Xbox 360 gaming units.
While I have mixed personal feelings on this, as I wrote on my personal blog today in an entry called Xbox 360 And Rock The Vote Team Up, I do think [...]
Things To Look For In A Power Strip
I’m in the middle of doing some major rearranging of my electronic gear in my family room, and a lot of this involves running the electrical cords again so that they make more sense.
The house is 23-years-old, and we are in severe need of more outlets. We did wire the house pretty heavily, so running [...]
Amazon Kindle May Be Coming To Classrooms
The Kindle, the popular ebook reader from Amazon may be coming to college and university classrooms near you.
According to a story on Seattle PI, Amazon is designing a new Kindle that will be optimized for use with text books. The college text book industry generates over $5.5 billion in revenue annually, and 95% of the [...]
Xbox 360 Prepares For Price Drop
As we told you in the post “When To Purchase Electronics“, the electronics companies tend to drop their prices just before the holidays, and it looks like Microsoft is going down this familiar road with their popular Xbox 360 gaming platform.
Rumors are circulating everywhere that the Arcade pack, the cheapest of the Xbox 360 bundles, [...]
