Archive for May, 2011

Use my iPhone as a tethered Internet access device?

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

I have my iPhone set up as a personal hotspot through AT&T but suspect that using it via wifi slows me down and that if I could plug it directly into my computer, it’d work faster. Is that true, and if so, how can I tether my iPhone via USB to my MacBook and gain faster access to the Internet?

Dave’s Answer:

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I For One, Welcome Our Google-Android Overlords!

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Google continues to be dismissive over the public’s concerns regarding the ability of its mobile devices to send precise user locations back to its servers. Google has been collecting the location information from millions of mobile phone and devices stating that the information was “extremely important” to the direction of the company’s future.

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