By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger(view all posts by Rick.Broida)
at 12:06PM Tuesday May 8, 2012
under
Stuff We Like
I've long been a fan of Virgin Mobile's cellular service, if not
its actual phones. The company offers no-contract plans that start
at $35 per month and include unlimited (well, unlimited with an
asterisk) data.
But its phones, well, so far they've been mostly entry-level
models. And they've run on Sprint's older, slower 3G network
(Sprint owns Virgin Mobile).
All that's about to change. Starting May 31, you'll be able to buy
the
HTC Evo V 4G smartphone for $299.99 and pay as
little as $35 per month for 4G service -- no contract
required.
Color me interested.
The Evo V runs Android 4.0 (a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich), the latest
and greatest version of Google's smartphone operating system.
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By BeckyHarks(view all posts by BeckyHarks)
at 12:48PM Friday January 13, 2012
under
Newsworthy
Facebook, Inc, recently launched a brand-new ad format, called a
"Featured Story," which dumps paid content - rather than updates
from Great Aunt Lynn about her recent biopsy or one of those
internet memes - squarely into our news feeds. Worse, these paid
advertisements (a.k.a. "news feed) shows the actions of the
Facebook users friends and these ads are front-and-center on our
Facebook news feed.
Great. More ads.
I've been mildly annoyed by the ads (read: "Sponsored Stories") on
the sidebar of Facebook, but have been able to tune them out. Now,
when I'm blearily checking to see if I've gotten any response to my
"Which Disney Princess Are You?" post, I'm bound to accidentally
click a Featured Story.
You know what? I'm sick of ads.
Because I have to sell my firstborn son in order to see a movie
these days, I do it perhaps twice a year.
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By MoneywiseMoms(view all posts by MoneywiseMoms)
at 7:55AM Wednesday January 11, 2012
under
Loose Change
Image by *Luana* via FlickrWhether you're a techno-geek or a Luddite, eventually you end up with electronic waste. Those old computers, cell phones, and other gadgets that go unused and obsolete. What do you do with them? It may depend on where you live.
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