18 March 2012 ~ Comments Off

Sim Card Is Already Active On A Subscription (Explained) – Verizon New iPad

There are a fewer purchasers of the new iPad with 4G LTE from Verizon who’ve received a somewhat cryptic error message “SIM card is already active on a subscription ” when they try to manage their data connection from the iPad. To make a long story short – the most likely explanation is that you’ve [...]

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11 March 2012 ~ Comments Off

Does the Galaxy Nexus (GSM) on AT&T Have Signal Issues?

Does the Samsung Galaxy Nexus GSM version have the same fluctuating signal issues (dropped , disconnects) as have been widely discussed with the Verizon version of the GNEX? In a word – no. At least not in my three weeks of testing. I’m using a GNEX on ATT in Connecticut and haven’t noticed any material [...]

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24 February 2012 ~ Comments Off

Leave T-Mobile ETF Free: New Data Roaming Takes Effect 4-5-2012

Beginning on April 5, 2012 the amount of data that T-Mobile subscribers may consume while roaming off the T-Mobile network has been sharply reduced. This in turn may qualify as a material change to the terms of your contract and as a result allow you to call T-Mobile and cancel without any Early Termination Fee [...]

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17 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

Facebook’s Growing Spam Problem

In the last few days I’ve noticed a regular spam problem from Facebook. My notifications bar shows links from people I don’t know and am not friends with. They are inviting me to like a spam page – in this case “iPhone 5 testing” which leads to a multitude of pop-up windows and eventually pulls [...]

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20 December 2011 ~ Comments Off

Beware of Taskforce Pro App for Gmail

For a short while I used the Taskforce App for Gmail. I was relatively happy with it until I tried synchronizing to Google Tasks and it kept disconnecting. Rather than spend an endless game of debugging an application that might never work properly (the developers last blog post was August 2011), I decided to cancel [...]

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