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AT&T Rolls Out Wireless Home Phone Base – phone and Internet via cellular

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AT&T Wireless Home Phone Base now rolled out – A device for phone and Internet service nationwide starting May 23 following a trial launched in select markets in 2013.

Dallas — AT&T is rolling out its Wireless Home Phone & Internet device and service nationwide starting May 23 through all sales channels following a trial launched in select Northeast markets in 2013. (more…)

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XDModo window solar charger sticks to the inside of a window to soak up the sun

Port window solar charger

XDModo solar chargerIf you’re luck enough to have an office with a window, facing the sun, it’s now perfect for juicing up the battery with your solar device charger.  XDModo has a sticky solution that now makes it easy. Users can stick the 0.68-inch thick Window solar charger to the inside of a glass window with the photovoltaic panels facing out, and then feed off a charging cable to a portable device positioned in the cooling shade.
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New Effort of Getting Apps Working Without Internet Connection

Couchbase

Apps Working without Internet ConnectionApart from insufficient battery life, what’s the other big annoying thing about your smartphone? How about getting apps working without an internet connection.

That’s especially the case on those commutes underground. While some countries have wired up their subways, many places still don’t let you connect to the outside world when you’re deep underground. This is due to the fact that, to use apps like chat, banking, and streaming services, we need to communicate with cloud servers over an Internet connection.

Or do we?
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Google ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling – EU court is out of touch

Evil Google

Once it’s out on the Web it’s there forever right?  But the European Union is turning that idea of irretrievable data on its head with a court ruling today  that could signal the end of what’s left of open, and free, publishing on the Web.

A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called “right to be forgotten”.  The only thing worse than Google are lawyers, so I’m not sure who I”m rooting for in this case.
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