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Verizon Wireless Playing the 4G Grinch With Third Outage This Month (Update)

Ina Fried in News on December 28, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

Customers are growing increasingly frustrated as another outage hits a carrier that heavily touts reliability as a core strength.

From iPods to Thermostats: Nest CEO and Founder Tony Fadell Speaks! (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

What does the iconic music player have in common with the device you use to regulate the heat in your home? A lot more than you think.

It’s a So-Lo-Mo World, After All

Kara Swisher in Mobile on June 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm PT

Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing. As in: No social, no local, no mobile.

WSJ.Com's "Digits": Is Wal-Mart's Future Bright With Kosmix?

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

Yesterday, from the back of the official All Things Digital minivan, BoomTown donned the official ATD Ray-Ban Aviators to talk on WSJ.com’s “Digits” online news show about the $300 million acquisition of Kosmix by Wal-Mart announced earlier this week. Can the retail giant, which has tried a number of digital moves in years past (to negligible impact), get social and mobile this time?

Intel Resumes Shipping That Troublesome Chip

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 7, 2011 at 2:22 pm PT

Remember that support chip of Intel’s with the “design issues”? The one that might cost it $300 million in revenue this quarter? It turns out PC makers want it anyway.

As Egypt's Last Internet Connection Goes Down, Alternatives Appear

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT

The last significant Internet connection in Egypt has now gone down. The world has responded with numerous clever workarounds to help the people there get their messages out.

Internet Access in Hotel Rooms

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on Internet access in hotel rooms, getting more hard-drive space and what to do with duplicate digital photos.

Apple's Jobs Tops BoomTown's 10 Most Fascinating Techies in 2010 Survey

Kara Swisher in News on January 3, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

Of course, he won. Dominating tech’s mindshare and press coverage in 2010, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs also handily took the No. 1 slot of a reader poll conducted by BoomTown in the last days of year. No one else even came close.

IPhone App iTeleport Wants You to Get Excited About VNC

Voices in News on December 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm PT

On the go and want to have a look at that spreadsheet you forgot to transfer to your iPad? What about checking on the progress of that movie download? VNC, or virtual network computing, apps have been the solution to those problems since the app store debuted, and one of them is about to make a big bet, go free-ish and try to start a new direction.