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David's Recent Newspaper Columns

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Most recent feature:

Special feature on "Your CellPhone

 

• Cell Phone Coverage - the facts and how to get the best coverage from your current provider

You're driving down the highway, engaged in an important business negotiation on your cell phone when your phone suddenly goes blank. "Uh oh! Did I blow the deal?" rushes through your panicked mind -- until you're able to reconnect with the other party, which hopefully is momentarily but might be much longer.

Almost every cell phone user has a story like this one. It's a fact of cell phone life. While we think of cell phone networks as being... <more>

 

• How cell phone service affects your battery life

Why does my cell phone lose its charge so quickly?... <more>

 

• "Can you hear me now?"

One of the most successful advertising campaigns in the cell phone industry's brief history is the one featuring a Verizon service person roaming from town to town, asking, "Can you hear me now?"

Well, that's not entirely fiction. ...<more>

 

David's Weekly columns:

• Connected (addressing the impact of tech & tech news on you)
• Worry Watch (about viruses, spyware, ID theft, threats...)
• Innovations (they can change the way you work and live)

More recent features and key columns:

• The surprise cost of computer ownership

• Apple lets its Tiger out of its cage

• Feature: Tax Preparation

• IRS joins with partners to offer free online income tax filing

• Tips for using the IRS' Free File

• Taking QuickBooks to your accountant

• Major League Baseball's online ticketing is finally becoming fan friendly

• Keeping your data safe -- online

• Do you have a 'clue' about AIM?

• Faster, faster, please! Two big Internet providers up the ante in the race for better Internet access

• Seven Tech-Trends From 2004 That Predict The Future

• The Newest battleground: Security on your desktop search

David's Weekly columns:

• Connected (addressing the impact of tech & tech news on you)
• Worry Watch (about viruses, spyware, ID theft, threats...)
• Innovations (they can change the way you work and live)

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(Many of David's recent articles are labeled "Computer Q&A")

Thanks to The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "One of America's Great Newspapers," for letting me enlighten so many people!