I was reminded yet again today of the dangers of texting and driving. After lunch, I was pulling away from the curb when a woman zipped past me, eyes glued to the screen of her cell phone, upon which she…

Cell phone users may be wasting several hundred dollars a year, paying for unused minutes and services they’ll never use. At least, that’s the argument being made by the Illinois Citizens Utility Board, a utility watchdog group.

The group released a…

I wonder if this counts as ironic: I sat down a few minutes ago to write about the government’s efforts to stimulate broadband access around the country. My initial attempt lasted less than a minute, halted in its tracks by a…

If you’re thinking about opposing AT&T’s plan to eliminate automatic delivery of the residential White Pages, now is the time to act.

The Missouri Public Service Commission is having an public hearing in St. Louis on July 8 to hear customer comments…

Earlier this week, I mentioned the ongoing squabble over ringtones involving AT&T and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

Essentially, the music producers group believes it should be paid more by wireless carriers for the ringtones so many cell…

It seems that I share an annoyance with someone over ringtones - admittedly for different reasons.

Apparently, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers isn’t a fan of all those ringtones being sold by wireless carriers. I’ve always found ringtones…

Life is full of surprises. Despite all the hype given (by people like me) to Apple and its nifty iPhones, the Blackberry Curve just took over the number one position in smart phone sales in the first quarter of 2009.

According…

Trying to get caught up on a few things that happend here while I was off in Las Vegas last week.

Seems that AT&T expanded its U-verse offering, by bringing the third leg (U-verse Voice) of the service to this area.…

So the first year has come and gone for AT&T’s popular U-verse service. The company says the service - which combines TV, Internet and telephone (not offered yet in our area) into one fast package - to now available to more…

I don’t tend to dedicate a lot of space on this blog to devices. So many of them are really nothing more than a slight improvement over the one they are replacing.

But considering that I did spend some time on…