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Regardless of how “wireless” communications technology has become, your gadgets only work if the batteries can be recharged. With that in mind, Walt test devices that are specifically designed to work in emergency situations.
Walt referees the battle for Web-mail supremacy between Yahoo Mail and Google’s Gmail. His verdict: Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect.
Walt answers questions about completely erasing a PC, installing Verizon’s Fios Internet service, and using a Firefox Web browser on an iMac.
The cellphone industry generates more and more obscure jargon that makes it harder to decide what to buy. Walt delivers a basic glossary of wireless jargon, for mere mortals who speak only English.
Walt answers questions about Yahoo’s new Web mail and switching from PC to Mac.
Kodak’s EasyShare-one camera can wirelessly email the photos it takes, and upload them to a Web site, all by itself. Walt finds much to admire, but complains that the wireless features didn’t always function properly.
Walt tests a new service that attempts to be like a digital version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s phone-a-friend, answering all sorts of questions via cellphone or email in just a few minutes.
Walt answers questions about badly scratched-up iPod nanos, using Slingbox to beam a cable signal, and video chat on Windows.
Sony’s latest coup is an ultra-portable laptop series that manages to be both smaller and lighter than its predecessor while expanding screen size. An impressive design, Walt says, though the wireless capability has problems.
For years Americans who accessed the Internet via cell phone networks looked across the ocean to Europe with envy. The speed of American cell phone networks badly trailed those in Europe.
But not anymore. Gradually, and with relatively little fanfare, Verizon Wireless has deployed a nationwide cellular data network in the United States that blows away [...]
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