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As these dog days ramp up for hurricane season in the east, and wildfire season in the west, it's worth taking a look at ways to gather information that can help you decide when to evacuate, keep tabs on what's going on back at home, and find out when it's safe to return ...

The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 highlighted two phenomena common in disasters: Network communications tower sites were destroyed, and network traffic overwhelmed systems -- two distinct issues causing failure in both public safety, and consumer-oriented communications. ...

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I've written about keeping your devices powered while on the road before, and lookedat techniques to reduce draw -- like reducing screen brightness and switching off phoneradios. I also took a broad-brush look at different technologies, like battery packs andsolar, in the same piece ...

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A cruel fact of life is that mobile operators have a vested interest in building out theirnetworks in areas where there are customers, not where there aren't any. Those towersare expensive, and they want a return ...

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I've never taken that much notice of my privacy, or lack of, as I've been surfing theWeb. However, after recent, obviously targeted advertising directed at me, where the adsblatantly reflected some product research I had just performed, I decided to investigate ...

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Microsoft is involved in a project geared toward self-programming and extending the functionality of the Android smartphone environment. That's surprising, because Microsoft has got its own phone OS that competes ...

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If you've been accumulating redundant, carrier-locked communications hardware like phones and data cards and have been stuffing them all into a drawer likely never to be used again, you can repurpose some of it and realize some cost savings ...

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With the apparent clamp-down on formerly liberal U.S. data quotas by mobile operators,public WiFi hotspots -- like cafes -- for daily Web consumption may become an evermore likely Internet environment for many of us ...

HD Widgets, an app from Cloud TV, is available for US$1.99 at Google Play ...

Bombarded by ads for cable and satellite TV packages, or seductive programmingbundles offered by Internet service providers and phone companies, it may be easy toforget that it's possible to pick up much of that programming via a sub-hundred dollarindoor antenna reminiscent of the rabbit-ear days ...

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Wireless carriers sell you "postpaid" contract phones at a considerable discount. The carrier expects to recoup its outlay -- the full price of the equipment -- over the life of the contract that you sign ...

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If you've been waiting with the patience of biblical figure Job for your handset makerto release a hardware-specific version of Android's latest incarnation, the 4.0 operatingsystem called "Ice Cream Sandwich," or ICS, and it hasn't yet, you can try cloning it ...