Verizon

For those who don’t want to be locked into a plan, Verizon offers a pre-pay alternative to it, as well as a better choice than using the Virgin network, which is actually Sprint’s.
A very good idea for very casual users, or others that realize that the usual post paid plans are no deal (5GB per [...]

I have generally believed, and expressed here, that government help is needed for this nation to become a leader once again in the area of information access and transfer. I happen to subscribe to the theory that there are certain things too large for the individual to undertake, and that the nation sometimes needs the [...]

Dementia seems to have set in. All of that show during the last presidential campaign, where his mother was brought around, ostensibly revealing that long life and, more importantly, clear thought well into old age, runs in the family, was obviously subterfuge. He is clearly not in full control of his faculties.
In a story on [...]

The one we have seems to be butting up against the limits imposed by the large carriers that refuse to put out the dollars needed to expand as needed. A blurb in slashdot asks why it should be that the large carriers (telcos and cable companies) have the power to shape the internet, instead of [...]

No, this is not a slam on the iPhone, or Apple. I am a fan of both; if there was a way to get a an iPhone with support, I’d have one.
Unfortunately, Mr. Jobs screwed the pooch on his choice of providers to align with, as AT&T has been, and perhaps always will be, the [...]

It’s out now. We can see the unvarnished truth. The entire story of how the nation that invented the internet (no matter who you give the greatest credit to) became the land of low speed, and lower penetration by population, than other countries, once considered backwards.
from Betanews
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better [...]

We seem to be on the verge of the same debate that seemed to be over just a short time ago. You know, the one where one side states that unlimited data plans are going the way of the dodo, and the other side  says that innovation will be stifled if the plans change, to [...]

As anyone who has been reading me for a while knows, I used to work for Radio Shack for a time, managing three different stores in Southern California. I worked there during the time that Len Roberts was the president of the company, and before it was revealed that Dave Edmondson was a long time [...]

Several of the usual places have had stories chronicling the problems with the AT&T network, and also the many problems with the iPhone on that network. The stories are numerous, and many are anecdotal, possibly apocryphal, in nature, but are so prevalent that they must be acknowledged.
As someone who has had a cell phone since [...]

The United States District Court, Southern District of New York says yes. Strangely, AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say no. As the article on Ars Technica states, it is very odd indeed when the EFF and AT&T agree upon anything.
On Wednesday EFF called the move “outlandish” and “a ploy to squeeze more money out [...]

The last Verizon FiOS offer ended on Saturday, and today there is already a new commercial advertising FiOS packages, the most notable one being home  phone, internet access and television, for $119 pr month. The thing which is supposed to assuage your feelings of being ripped off because the price just went up $20  per [...]

Since last year, when President Obama stated that broadband deployment would be a big item on his agenda, we have all seen lots of articles, all showing us how we are not anywhere near number one in terms of speed or penetration.
The traditional companies, phone and cable, tell us that the problem is that last [...]

Waiting while the download completes, I started thinking about the largesse of Microsoft.  This is a very long span of time to test the operating system, and that is very nice,
you’ll need it to get the RC
After looking at the site, however, I do wonder why no effort was made to give full disclosure.
Some [...]

Just reported on ZDNet is that Apple is talking to Verizon about …(wait for it, though you already know!) producing an iPhone!
Is this some great news or what! A truly nice phone on the very best network. Sounds like a marriage made in bean counter heaven to me. The stock price is rising as I [...]

It might sound prejudiced to say that the Japanese are not innovators, but do very well at refining and delivering technology for less – except that it is true. As in the production of automobiles, electronics, and many other things, Japan will take ideas developed in the United States, and deliver products at a price [...]