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The rural broadband delivery business is rapidly changing. When Dish Network's super-cheap broadband-via-satellite service, dishNET, went live in October, it prompted a satellite Internet price-war ...

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The Federal Communications Commission passed a little-publicized order last month that changes how cable television providers can deliver basic broadcast channels. This rule change has far-reaching implications for those who legally grab their basic broadcast channels for free from cable, but don't buy a cable subscription. It also affects television streaming device set-top box makers, like Boxee and Roku...

A simple AM radio can keep you abreast of events during a disaster. However, a smartphone is ideal for two-way communications, as well as for news and government messages via text message and social networks like Twitter ...

Electronic communications are reshaping personal life, and may right now be causing the rapid demise of print ...

This story was originally published on Sept. 11, 2012, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

Take a laptop or smartphone in addition to blankets and chairs if you're looking for aspot in the tent cities springing up outside your local big box store this week. Smartphone-driven on-the-fly research is proving to make it easier this year to find Black Friday deals on TVs, tabletsand other merchandise ...

How can classic retail, the brick-and-mortar physical stores dotting ourneighborhoods, compete with the likes of Amazon and Zappos? Can real-world retail survive e-commerce? And if it can, what's the trick? How do retailers intend to meet this growing threat? ...

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Easy sharing and streaming of media and other assets among computers at home or inthe workplace is a good reason to get networked. Other benefits include sharing Internetconnections ...

CoPilot Live Premium, an app from ALK Technologies, is available for US$9.99 at Google Play ...

My first impression of the bargain-basement US$39.99 Windows OS upgrade: To alloutward appearances, Windows 8 is a vivid, visual, deeply rewarding and aesthetically pleasing skin tothe 2009-released Windows 7 PC desktop OS ...

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If you're used to Microsoft's stratospheric pricing email program -- Outlook alone isUS$139.99 estimated retail -- take a look at the small print at Microsoft's Windows 8 website, and you'll see that a Windows 8 Pro upgrade can be downloaded for a limited-time at the measly price of $39.99 ...

Wireless carriers are putting more energy into prepaid. It's a normal evolution. As quality phones became cheaper, prepaid brands like Sprint's Boost and Virgin Mobile have been able to offer better phones -- even a selection of smartphones, including the iPhone. Those better products, along with the availability of 4G network speeds, have increased prepaid demand...

At a recent search-and-rescue boot camp I attended, it was clear during unscientific tests I performed that a standalone, dedicated Global Positioning System device wasmore accurate navigating to waypoints than a smartphone with GPS chip -- but it was only by a few feet ...

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Horror stories abound of electronic lives compromised by stolen passwords. One of the problems with a password-secured life is that the password is the single element that -- when compromised -- allows access. The User ID isn't protected, nor is any hardware ...

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New iPhone? Now, what to do with the old one, and the one before that? ...