There were loads of expectations ahead of Tuesday’s announcement that Verizon Wireless would put the iPhone on sale beginning on February 10th. Add all of them up, then consider the simplest and quickest path to availability, and you end up with the latter. Even Steve Jobs didn’t consider the event important enough to show up; […]

How many times have you checked available Wi-Fi connections on a note-book, Mac or PC, and found several that weren’t password protected? Now I understand a commercial hot spot, such as T-Mobile, where you can’t actually do anything online without having an active account or ordering up a pass for an hour or a day. […]