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Archive for June, 2007

How to dump your cell phone contract and sell your old phone

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Apple’s iPhone goes on sale next Friday (June 29) and as what is clearly the century’s most hyped new high tech gizmo, a lot of people will be drooling over it. But a lot of people won’t be able to use it as it only works with the AT&T wireless network. .. unless… they can […]

Hackers want in on your PC

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

There is now a 50% chance of being infected by an internet worm within just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC, according to Sophos, one of the big anti-virus companies. That’s how bad it has become. Even the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness team says “the average time-to-exploitation … for an […]

Safari for Windows a great prelude to iPhone

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

My NBC-TV tech segment this week is about the new Safari for Windows Web browser that Apple just released. Besides giving PC Web users a browser faster than anything they’ve yet used, Safari is the operating system many will meet when they get an iPhone at the end of the month.
The Apple iPhone uses […]

My various videos

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

I’ve heard from several of you about where the videos I do for the Detroit Free Press can be found. besides covering tech, I’m the Video Columnist, meaning I do columns by video as well as print.
I’ve just returned (I drove some 2,500 miles) from traveling the shorelines of Michigan’s Great Lakes reporting and producing […]

My new “edge” for training - The Garmin Edge GPS unit

Friday, June 1st, 2007

You know I’m a gadget nut. That’s why the Edge 205 appeals to me. It’s a GPS receiver geared towards cyclists from Garmin. It measures speed, distance, time, calories burned and altitude, and records this data for review on your PC (Yes.. it works with macs, too.)
I did my weekly NBC-TV segment on this gizmo.
It […]

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