Earlier this year, T-Mobile USA decided to shake things up. Up until now, it had become standard practice in the United States cell phone market to sell a device at a subsidized price and then lock the customer down to a two-year contract. With the new T-Mobile uncarrier plan, the conventional 24-month contract is discarded and customers...

When the situation is literally a matter of life and death, you don’t want to leave anything to chance. We use our smartphones and tablets to play all sorts of games and keep tabs on our daily chores, but what if you are faced with a real life emergency that calls for some real life help? Before the paramedics can make it to the...

It’s pretty exciting when you find yourself with a new Android tablet or smartphone, because it means that you get to spend all this time customizing the device with all sorts of great apps and widgets. However, you may find that your performance starts to suffer when you’ve installed a few too many widgets and apps. How can...

Call me a socially-awkward nerd if you want, but I asked out my now-wife for our first date via email. And this was over a decade ago! The fact of the matter is that the dating is totally different than what it was before the advent of the Internet and it’s even more different now that everyone carries around the Internet in their...

Your smartphone is packed with all sorts of wireless technology. You might have your regular GSM radio for voice calls and text messages. You might have 3G or even 4G LTE to handle your high-speed wireless data. And then there’s Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, and maybe an FM radio. A growing number of Android smartphones, like the Google...

For better or for worse, the current generation of children are going to grow up with technology as an integral part of their lives. They’re going to expect to use touchscreens and those multi-touch gestures are going to become second nature. Why, then, would you want to use the old-school approach when you can partake in the variety...

Parlez-vous francais? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Habla español? There are many things that you’ll want to consider when traveling to a foreign country, like how you can minimize your expenses by booking ahead, but what about actually communicating with the locals? Believe it or not, most people don’t speak English, so you will...

We’ve come to rely on Google for a lot of our favorite services. We use Gmail for our email, Google Contacts for our address books, and Google Calendar for our appointments. And now, Google wants to help manage all of your digital sticky notes too in the form of a new product called Google Keep. What is it exactly and how will it...

Let’s go back to the earlier days of the Internet. Back then, you may have bookmarked a handful of your favorite sites and you’d go about visiting them individually over the course of your day to see what’s new. Then, a miraculous new technology hit the scene called RSS. Standing for Really Simple Syndication, it gave...

We’ve come to rely heavily on digital communication. I don’t remember too many phone numbers anymore, because I just assume that they’re saved in my Google Contacts for retrieval on an as-needed basis. But what about when you meet someone in person and exchange business cards? It used to be that you would then have...