AT&T's Wireless 3G Microcell is the gadget I hate to love

Published June 9, 2010 at 3:09 p.m.


Like so many in Milwaukee, I've suffered through two and a half years as an AT&T Wireless customer, mostly unable to place or receive a call inside my own home. Then, on Monday, I got my hands on a 3G microcell, and I saw my reception instantly increase from zero to five bars within my entire house. Problem solved.

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AppTools 100 in 1 provides a hundred handy utilties for your iPhone

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Published June 3, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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It's kind of like a Mel Brooks movie. Throw a lot of jokes at someone, and a few of them will be funny. This iPhone app has a hundred apps built-in, and some of them are quite good. Others are completely worthless. For US$0.99, AppTools 100 in 1 is probably sure to please. A complete list of the utilities can be found at the App Store ... What's inside? Quite a lot.There are apps that turn your iPhone into an electronic level, a baby monitor, or a language translator; there are photo apps, the

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Investigation moves forward in Gizmodo iPhone leak case

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Published June 3, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
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Over a month ago, police seized a pile of equipment from Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in order to investigate the case of the misappropriated prototype iPhone. Gizmodo (and about ten million armchair lawyers on the internet) claimed the seizure was illegal because of "shield laws" intended to protect journalists from being compelled to reveal their sources ... After a month of figuring out how best to proceed, the investigation against Chen and Gizmodo is moving forward. A "special master"

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Steve Ballmer Language Analysis: He's A "People" Person Too

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:50 p.m.
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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie just finished speaking at the All Things D D8 conference. In the spirit of fair comparison, we did some thinking about their language, just as we did for Steve Jobs before ... Ballmer's known to be an ebullient and emotionally charged speaker, with a larger-than-life personality--he's spoken at All Things D events before. Ray Ozzie hasn't, and he's a bit more mysterious--he was clearly brought into the debate to cover the

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What to expect from the new iPhone

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:33 p.m.

The new iPhone should have a revamped design and added features like tethering. CNET speculates on what else we should see at the WWDC 2010 keynote ... Originally posted at iPhone Atlas ...

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Red, Hot, and Blue: The Hottest American Brand Is Not Apple

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:08 p.m.
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The strongest brands in America, according to a new study, are not American. They are German and Japanese luxury car brands: BMW; Mercedes; and Lexus. But the U.S. brand with the greatest "social currency" is one that has existed a mere ten years (and it's not even an Internet or tech company): JetBlue. (Read the full study here, PDF file.) ... Overall Brand Social Currency Ranking1. BMW69%Germany2. Mercedes68%Germany3. Lexus66%Japan 4. JetBlue 65% America 5. Apple64%America ... Information

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You Won't Be Able To Tether An iPad To An iPhone? [Update: AT&T Blames Apple] [Att]

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:05 p.m.
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What's going on, AT&T? You give us tethering options on our iPhones, but make us give up unlimited data plans in return. Now you're saying we can't tether our iPads to our iPhones even if we jump through that hoop? ... More » ... IPad - IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Tethering ...

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System Bug: Divide By Gross [Image Cache]

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Kafka, at work. [ Thanks David! ] ... More » ... Apple - Kafka - Google - IPhone - Steve Jobs ...

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Adobe AIR getting native Android app compilation

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Published June 3, 2010 at 4:47 p.m.
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Sound familiar? That's right: Adobe's looking to move some of the same technologies it developed for Flash-to-iPhone app compilation over to Android, where we imagine the company will be meeting a much more receptive audience. AIR -- part of the Flash portfolio of products -- now has a native Android app feature in beta, letting you pump out .apk files from code written in ActionScript 3. Adobe's targeting a release "by the second half" of the year, so this shouldn't take too long to go gold ...

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Game [IPhone Apps]

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Published June 3, 2010 at 3:40 p.m.
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Deep-voiced Movie Trailer Guy: They said the classic nineteenth-century tale that you were forced to read in high school couldn't be adapted to a zombie novel. They were wrong. Then they said it couldn't be a side-scrolling game. Wrong again ... More » ... Pride and Prejudice - Game - Arts - Zombie - Movies ...

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