If you’re stumped about what to get the iPhone lovers on your holiday gift giving list this year, I have a few suggestions for you. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer one reader several suggestions for buying accessories as gifts for his wife who has an iPhone 5. I also offer my thoughts …
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Wi-Fi is just about everywhere these days, so why do you still have to pay an arm and a leg for pricey 3G and 4G wireless data service from a carrier if you want to get online from your smartphone? This is a very good question. Now that every smartphone on the market comes with Wi-Fi capability built-in, some frugal …
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The phony press release sent out this morning on PRWeb detailing Google’s acquisition of Wi-Fi provider ICOA for $400 million may have been an attempt to move the company’s penny stock. The company’s stock started trading this morning at $0.0001 and steadily climbed throughout the morning to $0.0005, where it peaked around 11:30 a.m. ET. Once news trickled out that …
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For some people, smartphones and their always-on Internet connections and apps is a waste of money. If you don’t need apps or games and you can live without fast, robust access to the Net from your cell phone, then a smartphone might be expensive overkill. All four of the major U.S. wireless carriers still offer basic feature phones, which don’t …
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If you’re looking for a mapping app that won’t eat up your data plan and will give you results lickety split, Skobbler’s ForeverMap2 may be that app. The navigation technology startup hopes to give Google Maps a run for its money with its ForeverMap2 app that works both online and offline. The company today launched the ForeverMap2 app for Android …
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You can buy the coolest and most advanced smartphone out there. But if you can’t get a wireless signal, it’s not worth much to you. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer some advice to a reader about picking a wireless service provider based on which one offers the best coverage. I also explain to another reader why, even …
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Internal memory is probably one of the least sexy features of a smartphone. But as your smartphone replaces your point-and-shoot camera, MP3 music player, portable gaming device, GPS navigator, and in some cases your portable video player, it’s something you have to think about when buying a new device. While some devices allow you to add memory via a microSD …
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When choosing a smartphone or a wireless carrier, it’s important to know what your deal-breakers are. There are so many choices today when it comes to picking out a new smartphone or even choosing a service provider. Devices come in different sizes, with different software and even different network support. And wireless carriers, which all have different strengths when it …
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NEW YORK — AT&T is in a much better place when it comes to spectrum today than it was at the end of 2011, the company said during an investor meeting today. And the company is confident is has the resources to make a big push to compete with its next generation 4G LTE market. AT&T announced today that it …
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AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 to the federal government to resolve complaints that that the company switched certain consumers to its mandatory monthly wireless data plans even though it had promised they could retain their existing pay-as-you-go data plans, the FCC announced Tuesday. AT&T has agreed to refund excess charges paid by these “grandfathered subscriber,” which could be as …
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