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Ashley and I have been getting acquainted with our new MacBook Pro's over the last few weeks, and things are going pretty well. I really wanted to get an external hard drive so that I could do Time Machine backups, but I didn't want to fork out an arm and a leg for one. A few days

The burning question of the week last week was 64-bit vs. 32-bit, which do you use? The results are in and here's what we found:

• 39% of you are using 32-bit Windows XP
• 26% of you are using 32-bit Windows Vista
• 16% of you are using 64-bit Windows Vista
• 6% of you are using 64-bit Windows XP
• 6% of you are using 32-bit Linux
• 5% of you are
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Sprint had two pretty big announcements today, one of which they hope everyone catches wind of and another they hope is quickly forgotten about. Lets start with the bad news first. Sprint, despite being the third largest wireless carrier in the United States, posted a loss of $29.5 billion for the fourth-quarter. Stock holders definitely can't be happy since today they hit

Verizon Wireless just launched their unlimited calling plans in the United States starting at $99.99 where subscribers pay one flat rate to place and receive unlimited calls.  All in all, it's not THAT great of a deal, but there are some benefits to what they are offering. Below is the graph which outlines the three unlimited plans available and the prices for each:

Notice that

BlackBerry's email service decided to go out for lunch yesterday and didn't come back. By that we mean there was a major BlackBerry outage yesterday and thousands upon thousands of people were without access to their wireless email.  Given the crowd of people who typically use it (e.g., businessmen and other professionals), there were

We all know that the FCC prohibits the use of cellular phones and other wireless devices on aircraft while they're in the air - it's been that way forever.  Around 2004 though, they were asked to lift the ban so that passengers could talk on their phones while flying.  The FCC said no to that but what they have said

Microsoft just introduced a new mouse "with a mind of its own" -the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000. What's unique about it is that the transceiver which you'd normally have to plug in via USB anyways to use the mouse includes 1GB of Flash Memory. It's not going to be on the