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Dodge Retort: HTC Thunderbolt -Verizon’s first 4G Smartphone?
Dodge Retort: PC upgrade work & research…pays off
By John Dodge
I just bought a new desktop after eight years living on a Dell 8300 Pentium 4 for which I plunked down $2562 on April 2, 2003.
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Dodge Retort: The Social Network a Good Yarn, but Incomplete
By John Dodge
The movie The Social Network is a worthy and multi-faceted flick. It evoked some thoughts given I have traveled in high tech circles for most of my career as a journalist.
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Dodge Retort: Sports in 3D-The 2nd Best to Being There in Person
By John Dodge
I am writing a couple of short bylined features a month about video, cloud computing, borderless networks and virtualization for News@Cisco. My first story reporting on the first TV broadcast of an NFL game in 3D.
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Dodge Retort: Droid 2 a bit better than original Droid
By John Dodge
The Droid is the fourth Android-based smartphone from I’ve had the chance to test out during the past 10 months and I must say, there’s a certain sameness to all of Verizon’s Droids. So it’s the details that distinguish them from one another. It’s sort of like if Apple has four different size iPhones.
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Dodge Retort: Why don’t I love my iPad?
By John Dodge
Well, I’ve had the iPad for a month and I am supposed to love it. Guess what? I don’t know quite what to do with it.
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Dodge Retort: No one PC security program best at doing it all
By John Dodge
PC Pitstop has published the results of a pretty interesting PC security survey and found the two least effective anti-virus programs are the ones many of us use – McAfee and Symantec Norton. I use McAfee and as far as I know, there’s nothing sinister on my PCs.
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Dodge Retort: Droid Incredible mobile tethering a hassle
By John Dodge
I am still playing with HTC’s Droid Incredible from Verizon Wireless and like I said initially, it’s a very cool smart phone. However, the mobile broadband tethering leaves something to be desired.
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Smart Planet: iPad? I’m passing
By John Dodge
I’ve had several opportunities to play with the iPad and like millions of others, I love it. But I’m not going to buy one for the main reason I don’t buy Apple…
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Smart Planet: Unintended Consequences of Facebook
By John Dodge
John tackles the issues surrounding cyber-bulling through social media.
Who is to blame and what can we do to protect our children?
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Smart Planet: Why Are Laptop Touchpads So Bad?
By John Dodge
Does this happen to you? You want to go from point A to B on your laptop display and your touchpad mouse pointer randomly darts across the screen leaving a trail of unwanted open windows and applications. It’s like I am in Miami today and want to head for a spring training game in Fort Myers (I am) and inexplicably end up in Jacksonville.
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