In a relatively short period of time, the smartphone has become the must-have accessory in the world of business. It was not long ago that a mobile phone was only capable of one primary task – enabling a user to send and receive calls. Today, the mobile phone has evolved into the smartphone, a device that can do everything from enabling a user to send and...

Yesterday, I went in for my biannual teeth cleaning at the dentist (in the US, dentists schedule routine cleanings once every 6 months). After the cleaning was done, I receive the dentist’s reminder card at the front desk stating that my next visit is scheduled for May 2012. Now while it’s true the office will call me a few days before the day of...

Although I live in Florida now, from age 0 to 30 I lived in New England, so I have a pretty good idea what it means to deal with harsh weather conditions and winterize things appropriately. Something that most people don’t give a thought to are the operating temperatures for mobile devices. Every one sold states in the manual what the minimum and maximum...

A friend of mine visited Florida all last week and this friend’s only computer that was taken was an iPod Touch, which most of you know as "an iPhone without the phone part". For all intents and purposes, that’s a fairly accurate description of what an iPod Touch is. Something that truly amazes me about iPod Touches and other devices with...

"Tablets will replace PCs and everything will be great!" Don’t count on it. The dark side of tablet computing is its overreliance on the cloud to do basically everything. The cold bitter fact is that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo!, AOL and anyone else that offers cloud services (mail, storage, docs, etc.) absolutely do not care about your data...

Most of you out there had that phone in the past which you miss dearly because everything about it was "right". You probably stopped using it only because you changed carriers, am I right? In case you weren’t aware, Sony is phasing out feature phones, and that truly marks the beginning of the end for the feature phone – at least in the US....

What next for the smartphone? The latest generation of swishable, app-packed mobiles would appear to have it all, with enough processing power to send a rocket to the moon while uploading lunar images to Facebook in real time. What can we expect the next generation of smart phones to bring us – other than an even sleeker profile and a few more spurious...

There have been a few times in computer history where the Mac vs. Windows (or Windows vs. Mac or whatever) has been at the forefront of technology news. When Windows 95 was released, all the Macheads went nuts because they instantly pegged the interface as a direct rip-off of MacOS. One of the most popular phrases was "Win 95 = Mac 85" in reference to...

Managing what notifications go where is a bit of a balancing act concerning modern communications, and unfortunately there’s no cure-all solution because everyone’s schedule is different. In addition, there are those who like to be notified of everything all the time, while others would prefer more "polite" notifications that don’t...

What’s the advantage of an unlocked phone? When you have a phone that’s unlocked, it means you can use any carrier the phone is compatible with. Important note: Check the details of each phone (links are provided below) to see which carriers the phone will work on. Ordinarily most people think phones of this kind are ridiculously expensive at $300 or...