I was delighted to find a no-name Chinese brand phone for 1,100 pesos that provided all the features and capabilities of a name-brand phone costing 8,000. That no-name phone was still working well three years later when I decided to replace it only because the software Operating System was out of date and could not be updated.
When life gives us lemons, we are supposed to make lemonade. So when a pickpocket stole my cellphone while riding on the Mexico City Metro three years ago, I said to myself how lucky I was to be visiting a big city where there are dozens of cellphone stores.
scare tactics which Apple Computers has been recently using. Their warning saying that your Wi-Fi “is not considered secure” means only that you are not using the latest, greatest hardware.
“The Wayback Machine” now has more than half a trillion web pages saved over the last two decades
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, typed the first-ever tweet, “just setting up my twttr.” On March 22, 2021, Dorsey sold that tweet at auction for 2.9 million dollars. In recent weeks, several Atención readers have written to ask me “WTH?” (What the heck?).
Telecommunications standardization efforts started in 1865 with the formation of the International Telegraph Union, which became a specialized agency of the United Nations in 1947.
A big challenge involved in writing a newspaper column is that what is written one day can be immediately overtaken by events before the next edition of Atención is printed. That is what just happened here, calling for a minor update to the advice dispensed only last week.
A strategy I highly recommend is setting up a new email account to be used for banking and for banking only.
My friend Sally received an urgent message from her free email provider, Google Gmail, saying she needed to immediately change her password.
Spring has sprung when we move our clocks forward to daylight saving time, and for many people, this is also time for some spring cleaning.