I have no idea what the movie “Bordertown” is about… I assume Mexico.  But here in Buffalo we are a bordertown as well.  A large percent of the shoppers at our malls, passengers at our airports, and attendees to our football games are from Canada.  We hardly notice except a couple of “aboot”s and “eh?”s. [...]

Last night we had what is likely a rare opportunity (outside of the big tech blogs or a Best Buy) to have an Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble nook tablet, and Apple iPad 2 in the same room. Quickly doing some head to head Netflixing (Apocolypto if you’d like to know) and Youtubing (the [...]

By now you have seen more previews reviews and head to heads of the Amazon Kindle Fire then you care to see.  Each one touting specs and resolutions and whatnot.  Oddly enough the Kindle Fire user will never know what is inside their device (unless they drop it off a five story building), so all [...]

Thanks to a friend who works at Barnes & Noble I had some quality time with the new nook tablet the day before its launch.  With that quick time I learned a few things I’d like to share. The home screen seems to be a good hybrid between a desktop (lock apps) and a “coverflow” [...]

So you’re thinking of making the jump from a featurephone to a full fledged smartphone. Surely your biggest concern is not the phone… but the PLAN.  Not only are those “data plans” scary and confusing but they’re insanely expensive.  In short Sprint has the best value…. a truly unlimited… but let’s look at Verizon (who [...]