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Four FREE Deals That No Student Should Pass Up

by Mike Mansell July 12, 2011
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Regardless of what culture or society you were brought up in your parents, if anything like my own, did their best to teach you the importance of education; oftentimes calling it “priceless.” But as we grow up, we realize that education in many countries does indeed have a price, and a steep one at that. So it’s needless to say that students like myself are always keeping an eye out for great deals in order to offset the price of higher education.

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Macs Aren’t Customizable? TinkerTool Disagrees.

by Mike Mansell July 10, 2011
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One of the first things that Apple critics told me when I purchased my MacBook Pro in March of this year was that Mac OS X, the flagship operating system that Apple develops and runs on all of their computers, was very limited in terms of customization options. Personally, though, the thought of being locked into a simple user interface didn’t bother me in the least; even if the rumors were true.

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AT&T’s Free MicroCell Campaign Is Awesome.

by Jeff Weisbein April 19, 2011
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It’s not often that I’ve been known to praise AT&T for anything, but this time I think they deserve some recognition.  The other day, I received an email from AT&T stating that I was eligible for a free MicroCell.  What is a MicroCell you ask?  A MicroCell is essentially mini cell phone tower for your home/business.  It [...]

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T-Mobile Giving Away Free Smartphones Tomorrow and Saturday

by Mike Mansell February 10, 2011
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There’s no doubt that the mobile industry has been one of the busiest and most newsworthy industries in the last couple of months.  It seems as if every time we blink our eyes we are flooded with new announcements, unveiling, rumors, and overall mobile innovations.  With this level of innovation in the mobile industry and the great [...]

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Best Buy’s Smartphone Sales Event Will Include the iPhone 3GS Today Only

by Mike Mansell December 10, 2010
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While the Apple iPhone 4 has a number of features that are new to the iPhone family (such as Facetime, the retina display, etc), the iPhone 3GS still isn’t a bad phone by any stretch of the imagination.  The 3GS can still run the latest version of iOS relatively well, can still handle multi-media, and [...]

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The Future May Revolve Around “Freemium” Products

by Eric Massengill July 23, 2009
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In one of Jeff’s previous articles he expressed antipathy about the company LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), because the vast majority of its users opted only for the free service. At face value, it seems like he’s right: 10% monetization doesn’t look like a large number, not when physical products have numbers like 100%. The thing is, [...]

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Google Prepares For Google Voice

by Matt Hodges June 21, 2009
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Last month, Google grabbed 1 million phone numbers; a move that implies we may soon see the availability of Google Voice.  The service from the internet giant “lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.”  There has been [...]

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