Category: Opinion
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Consumer Tech
NEATO XV-21 ROBOTIC VACUUM – The device you can’t live without!
Meet Rusty, our year and a half old Golden Retriever that we rescued from a kill shelter a couple of months ago. He is the best-tempered dog that anyone can ask for – a perfect addition to our…
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Consumer Tech for July – Are TV Manufacturers Still Relevant?
Are TV Manufacturers Still Relevant? IPads, Android Tablets, Smart Phones rule the world…of TV? Los Angeles, California: During the Stanley Cup playoffs and the NBA Playoffs, several divisional championship games were viewed by more people on Smart phones,…
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Consumer Tech for June – The Best Family Technology Questions and Answers Ever: Part One
Richard M. Sherwin, Susan Davis, Bob Plunkett and Erick Royer 1. The most common question of all: “How do I connect my new IPad, Tablet or Smart Phone, to my Wi-Fi”? Turn on your new device. Go to…
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Consumer Tech for May… Good Manufacturers Make Mistakes and Consumers Pay for Them
Good Manufacturers Make Mistakes and Consumers Pay for Them The team that works for our sister company, GCM LLC, has done strategic research for several CE, PC, Mobile product manufacturers, regional retailers and national service providers. We usually…
Opinion
Our resident technology guru picks some of his most unusual occurrences of this or maybe next year
The Case Of The “Broken” Keyboard I receive at least one phone call a week regarding lost passwords that my clients either misplace or forget. Sometimes they even make crazy mistakes like changing their passwords on their voice…
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What lining for this cloud?
(Senior tech-finance columnist) Apple Computers has accustomed its fans and even detractors to a certain pattern: bring to market a well-packaged product that while not delivering leading edge technology on every dimension stretches the current limits of the…
Opinion
Some of our Picks for the Holidays
By the staff at Digital Family Advisor Our Favorite TVs High End over $1,500: Panasonic PVT 30 series; Sony XBR ; Samsung 9000 series; Vizio XVT; Sharp LC 70 Mid Priced $900 to $1,500 : Panasonic TC series;…
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September Consumer Tech
… Why have Vizio and other former no name TV makers won your business? Why these relative upstart consumer electronics manufacturers are surviving and thriving against their more famous brands. Irvine, California — Vizio’s office building and U.S.…
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Life is about to get very interesting for anyone who creates websites.
… Last month, the three big search engines, Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, decided to cooperate on a single markup language that webmasters and SEOs use to enhance their sites in search listings. That language is called schemas –…
Opinion
Read Your Phone Bill Lately? You Should.
… Last Month, the U.S. Postal Service found it had been charged $550,000 in unauthorized telephone charges so far this year. It hired an auditor to examine its bills. The audit uncovered two problems – illegal charges had…