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It’s hard to imagine that just fifteen years ago we were sharing files with one another by means of a slow, magnetic and relatively unreliable format called the floppy disk. After the demise of the floppy disk, there was a move towards flash memory such as Compact Flash, SD Cards, and USB thumb drives. All [...]

From the early part of the 20th century all the way through the late 1990’s, payphones have been an integral part of the communications infrastructure in the United States. We would use them to call our loved ones when we were traveling or just away from home and the idea of carrying a phone with [...]

Wireless routers are proliferating homes nation wide as technology improves and prices decrease from market competition. Many people have home WiFi wireless routers so that they can use the web on their laptop throughout their home. The signal from these routers can often extend a few hundred feet outside the walls of one’s home, so [...]

Up until the last few years, international calling was a very expensive proposition. You could be paying several dollars per minute even when you had the best deal on international service there was to get. In order to skirt around the system and get free calling, a number of intrepid technologist invented a device called [...]