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Review Of The Verizon iPhone 4s Smartphone

November 29, 2011

Apple does it again and the response is as expected.  Four million phones were sold over the opening weekend.  The packaging is clean and simple. Apple is so kind to provide you with two stickers of the Apple logo. Nothing better than helping Apple advertise for free. Verizon's Apple iPhone 4s sells for $399 at [...]

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And Then There Was None

November 6, 2011

Since starting the Net-Net Blog we’ve never had as long a break since the last post. The blog is not run by some conglomerate with an army of journalist. This is pretty well clear if you read some of the content. We nerds have been busy running the business. This time of year starts getting [...]

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Review: Motorola Droid Bionic

September 19, 2011

Motorola does it again with the Droid line of phones. This time with the Bionic.  This phone is well constructed.  I won’t inundate you with endless specifications and feature-sets.  I will, however, briefly highlight the more powerful attributes that will benefit you. The first thing is size.  It is too large to put this baby into woman’s pants [...]

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Walgreens To Add 800 Charging Stations Throughout the US

July 23, 2011

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports St. Louis is to receive 20 charging stations for electric vehicles.  Walgreens published a press release announcing a nationwide deployment to 800 stores. The times to charge a vehicle are from 10-minutes to one hour.  The company reports “Walgreens has a long-standing commitment to reducing energy usage and expanding its renewable [...]

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Where Are My Graphics In Thunderbird

June 27, 2011

There are things in life where you ask yourself “why?”  This post is a small complaint on my part, but these types of things seem so obvious. We have supported numerous e-mail programs over the years.  Microsoft Outlook towers over it’s competitors and rightly so.  The open source community has not come close to the functionality and [...]

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