That $2 fee Verizon was going to slap on your phone bill for the “convenience” of paying by credit card or using your phone? Well, it’s gone.
December 31, 2011December 30, 2011Predictions for 2012Here I go again! Trying to divine what’s coming up for the year 2012 in high-tech. December 29, 2011Can Apple Keep Up?A good review and perspective from the Financial Times (below). I’m enthusiastic for the future Apple. The time to be worried is three years from now when the products are old and boring. Is it possible for Apple products to get old and boring? Time will tell.
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Verizon to Charge $2 for “Convenience Billing”I’ll have to research this issue further: My cell phone bills are paid automatically online. If the Big V wants to charge me $2 for that service, then I can once again resort to having them send me the bill via snail mail. Given the size of my account, and the number of pages for each line, I don’t think that will save them any money. Still, it will be more convenient for me not having to pay $2/month for online billing. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. December 28, 2011The Year in Review: 2011 PredictionsBoy, am I seriously not a psychic. That’s okay, because I believe all psychics are not psychic either. So I suppose that makes me a psychic, especially when it came to predicting technology events for the year 2011:
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December 26, 2011PorchCam Year In ReviewThis year saw the end of the old PorchCam and the dawn of the new one. December 22, 2011Web Page BloatThe average size of the most popular web sites is rapidly approaching 1MB per page. That’s huge. No wonder it takes so long to load some pages. The problem is compounded when you consider the popularity of mobile devices. Loading up a 1MB web page on your cell phone, for example, could be 0.5% of your monthly data allowance. Visit that site a few times per day, every day a month, and you can see how web page bloat would become an issue. eBook Reader RecommendationsYeah, I’m a tad bit late with a shopping recommendation, seeing how Christmas is just a few days away. I didn’t do a Christmas shopping list this year, though if I did, I would have had this to say about getting yourself an eBook-reading gizmo: December 19, 2011An LCD Monitor DiesI’ve never had this happen before. In fact, the monitor that died is the second oldest LCD (or “flat screen”) monitor I own. Er, owned. December 15, 2011Don’t Sweat that Burglar, Droid OwnersApparently, the thieves are more interested in snatching up an iPhone over your beloved Android phone — or even the once prized Blackberry.
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