Let’s face it, there is only one good reason why you should apply for international roaming when you head out into the world. And that is to receive text messages. Try placing a call, or even a text message, from your roaming phone when you’re out of the country and you’ll soon realize that the […]

So my mom just got a new phone. A Nokia 3650. You know, the one with the outlandish rotary-layout keypad. And this finally replaced the trusty, reliable, and next-to-the-5110-perhaps-the-most-indestructible-phone-around Nokia 3530 which she had been using for ages now. In other words, she has finally entered the graphical interface age.
Problem: my mom’s pushing 70. And […]

I came from a press launch yesterday for LaCie, the French company that specializes in storage solutions for consumers and enterprises. One of the products they launched was the LaCie USB key.
The small credit card size was not as surprising as it would have been if it was introduced two years ago but it […]

This is a little weird that we’re doing this after two and a half years into the blog. We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce the regulars who’ve been writing for the magazine as well as in this blog.
Let me start is off. You probably know me from the magazine as one of […]