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At least that’s how many wireless chipsets are expected to be sold by year’s end. And it’s all happened in six years, according to new data released by In-Stat and the Wi-Fi Alliance, making the technology a staple of computer networking and a powerful presence in millions of homes and businesses. With a 64% […]

I may look part robot with a hands-free Bluetooth headset blinking behind a my left ear but I’m slowly getting hooked on these miniature devices. Here’s my Free Press column from today:  MIKE WENDLAND: U.S. is all ears for headsets.

Lemme get this straight: Some lamebrained kid is driving and decides to send a text message on his mobile. He looks away from the road and veers into a bicyclist and kills him. And authorities see this only as a misdemeanor?  Teen in Crash May Have Been Text Messaging.

A variant of W32/Sober.gen@MM, W32/Sober@MM!M681 is another mass-mailing worm hiding inside a spam email attachment making its way around the net this weekend. When run, the virus displays a fake error message, infects the host computer then sends itself to stolen email addresses.
Here’s some info from the folks at McAfee:
What should I look for? FROM: […]

Here’s a nice gift from the folks at Belight Software for mac users.  Free Christmas Image Collection for Your Mailing and Publishing Needs.

Looks like shopping malls aren’t the only busy places this Black Friday. Online shopping sites are getting lots of traffic, too. The BestBuy site was unavailable a couple of times today when I tried. Same with CompUSA. Online shoppers looking for availablity and price comparisons are causing slowdowns on others.

Every year since the turn of the century, I’ve been writing a Thanksgiving blog post about the things and people I’m thankful for. As I do so again this year, I’m amazed how many are still on the list. There’s lots of newcomers, too.
Anyway, here’s what I’m especialy thankful for on Thanksgiving 2005:
The season’s first […]

I’ve been testing out a new BlackBerry 8700 from Cingular and have toted it around with other phones running on the Verizon and Sprint networks in some pretty out of the way places over the past few weeks. I have been much impressed by the reliability of connections to the high speed Cingular EDGE network. […]

Have you heard about Apple CEO Steve Job’s latest appearance on Saturday Night Live? They’ve posted a video of it over at PhuseBox.  Steve Jobs SNL Sketch.

The same kind of ultra-sharp, bold paint jobs that customize fine rides are being applied to the drab gray and silver laptop computers toted around by road warriors whose companies are affixing their corporate logos to the machines. Check out my column in today’s Freep. MIKE WENDLAND: Make your laptop special.

I never thought finding and buying the right computer furniture would be so difficult. I’m moving my main home office into a 12-by-12 room and would like to wrap two walls with a multi-workstation furniture arrangement that will let me set up three seperate computer areas with room between for printers and peripherals and testing […]

I’m setting up a new Dell XPS 400 system I just bought to use for testing out Windows and PC apps. But one feature I have on my Macs that is sorely missed is an iSync-like function that would let me keep Outlook info - calendar, tasks, contacts - synced with my Taplet PC and […]