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I’ve been on the road and will be for another week. I’ve been in Shearton’s and Homestead Hotel Suites so far and have to be impressed with the connectivity. Using my SMC Travel Router makes the W, Sheraton and Westin TurboNet like working at home.
When your traveling look for those brands of hotels. They rock and VoIP and Skype over my laptop is a cinch. Great voice quality. Solid bandwidth
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AT&T reported a slight boost in profits this morning, and the carrier has quite a bit to boast about, especially on the wireless side. iPhone activations reached 2.4 million during the third …
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Today on the Verizon Policy blog Link Hoewing writes about the results of an academic research paper that looks at the effectiveness of “shaming” corporations into behaving properly. The …
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on Monday at the annual Kermit …
