Data

Sprint to Kill Off Unlimited Data?

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2011
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While Sprint has long built the company image around its unlimited data plans, Sprint’s CTO says that may change in the future.

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Verizon Introduces Less Than Impressive Pre-Paid Unlimited Service

by Mike Mansell September 14, 2011
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As much as I know the word “unlimited” is really over-used in marketing and advertising, I really must admit that I do like the concept of not being tied down to fixed limits with services that I subscribe to.  Of course, I understand that even with “unlimited” services there is always some sort of limit [...]

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Will AT&T and Verizon Re-Implement Unlimited Data Plans?

by Mike Mansell September 13, 2011
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When it comes to the various sub-sections of the general technology industry, the single most interesting market that I’m following right now is hands-down the mobile industry.  Sometimes it really is a bit of a challenge to realize how far innovations in the mobile sector or any other subset of the tech industry for that matter [...]

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The Cloud Has Failed Me

by Mike Mansell August 10, 2011
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If you’ve been keeping even a moderate eye on the technology industry during the last couple of years I’m sure you have heard of “the cloud.” While more of a concept than a specific product or service “the cloud”, a term short for “cloud computing” which in turn simply means computing and storage that is handled via network instead of on a user’s desktop computer has taken off.

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10 ISP’s Found to be Using Search Redirects to Make Easy Money

by Mike Mansell August 5, 2011
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As someone who spends the majority of my day on the Internet (probably a tad more than I should), I like to think that I have a sacred bond with my Internet Service Provider (ISP).  After all, if my ISP didn’t do their job and provide me with my uplink to the world, I would [...]

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Do You Need A Data Plan?

by Keaton Taylor July 19, 2011
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Most all of us have at one point or another been robbed by our mobile phone carriers by the ridiculously expensive data plans, and while we continue to believe that we need these data plans I’m saying to my carrier AT&T ”thanks, but no thanks.” Over the summer I flew half way across the globe to [...]

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Why iCloud is a Dream Come True

by Mike Mansell June 7, 2011
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Like many Apple followers and enthusiasts, my morning yesterday was strikingly similar to that of a young child eagerly awaking on Christmas day.  But instead of running down the stairs and assessing the gifts under the tree, I grabbed my MacBook Pro from the living-room hutch and immediately began scurrying around the Internet awaiting coverage [...]

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iPhone Found to Store Location Data: Is it a Big Deal?

by Mike Mansell April 21, 2011
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Yesterday technology news was filled with stories regarding the Apple iPhone and the fact that it has recently been discovered to store a history of location coordinates.  This news came after technology researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan discovered a somewhat hidden file on the device while doing research for an entirely different project.  Immediately after [...]

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Comodo Data Breach Gives Web Users A Slap of Reality

by Mike Mansell March 25, 2011
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As Internet users, we have always been taught to be mindful of the sites we visit, as some of them may very well be designed specifically to lure unsuspecting visitors into a fraudulent trap.  Asides from checking the URL of the site that one is on or logging into, one of the biggest “rules” for [...]

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Research Shows: Solid State Drives Are More Difficult to Erase

by Jeff Weisbein February 23, 2011
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We have been erasing hard drives and other storage mediums for years now with much success by overwriting the data with zeros and ones several times.  However, with the adoption of SSDs that may not be sufficient anymore.  According to researches at the University of California at San Diego, “newer solid state disks have a much different [...]

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