By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger
at 12:56PM,
10 months ago
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Spotlight Deals
Back in April,
Amazon took the wraps off the hideously named
Kindle with Special Offers, a Wi-Fi-only version of the e-reader priced $25 less than its regular
Kindle counterpart.
"Special Offers," of course, referred to ads, which, though annoying in principle, proved to be fairly unobtrusive: They didn't upset the reading experience.
Today, Amazon announced the
Kindle 3G with Special Offers, with AT&T supplying the free, always-on 3G wireless connectivity. The price: $139, a savings of $50 over the "regular" Kindle 3G.
By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger
at 3:09PM,
yesterday
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Stuff We Like
There's never been a better time to ditch your landline.
If you're already paying for cable or DSL Internet service, you've
got everything you need to kiss your local and long-distance
telephone companies goodbye.
Well, almost everything: The missing ingredient is a voice-over-IP
adapter, which sounds complicated but isn't. It's a little box that
sits between your existing phone (or cordless phone system) and
your router and provides full-featured home phone service. For
pennies.
You've probably heard of one such product: the MagicJack, an
infomercial staple. A few months back, I reviewed its successor,
the
MagicJack Plus.
Today let's talk about its latest competitor, the
NetTalk Duo
WiFi.