Rob Pegoraro
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Considering an app to manage your passwords? This advice will be key no matter which app you choose.
Customers often ignore best-practices instructions to choose unique and complex passwords for every account. → Read More
Netflix, Disney and Apple TV prices jump. How to save a bundle on your streaming services
Since October, ad-free Disney+, Sling TV's base rate and Apple TV+ have all raised prices. This is how can you save a bundle on your streaming bundle. → Read More
What to know before you open your Comcast TV or internet bill: Rates are going up (again)
If you’re a Comcast subscriber, it’s not the most wonderful time of the year. The cable giant is raising its rates again. → Read More
Why haven't iPhone, Android messaging apps evolved to make it easier to talk to each other?
Apple and Google have each made big strides with their messaging apps. But when it comes to cross-platform messaging, they've made a mess. → Read More
New deals for existing customers? Comcast, Charter and Spectrum make getting better rates hard.
If you've been paying an ISP for years, you'd think you'd get the same rates they offer new customers and not have to jump through hoops to get them. → Read More
Does the home you want to buy have good high-speed Internet? You may have to do some sleuthing to find out.
Sometimes, new homeowners only learn after a closing that their property is bereft of broadband — leaving them to choose between paying tens of thousands of dollars to get wired connectivity extended or limping along with expensive, data-capped satellite Internet. → Read More
With Google's new limit on free data storage, don't forget your Gmail inbox. It could be stuffed
Want to stay under Google's 15-gigabyte free storage limit? Check your Gmail account as its data counts along with Google Drive and Google Photos. → Read More
Time to cut internet cords: T-Mobile, Verizon up their bids to be your next home broadband
Cord cutting is coming to home internet access, not just pay TV – but not every embittered broadband customer will be able to fire their current provider. → Read More
The Paper-To-Pixels Workaround Activists Want To Use To Keep Libraries Online
If it was fine for you 20 years ago to rip a CD to MP3, why can't a library scan a book and loan out a digital copy instead? → Read More
What an upcoming Apple privacy prompt will mean for you – and the apps you use
In iOS 14.5, app makers must show a privacy label in the App Store, and if you see a a card that says, “Data Used to Track You,” they need permission. → Read More
What an upcoming Apple privacy prompt will mean for you – and the apps you use
In iOS 14.5, app makers must show a privacy label in the App Store, and if you see a a card that says, “Data Used to Track You,” they need permission. → Read More
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: Trust Us, You Still Want Personalized Ads
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's defense of the online ad industry as we know it: “Personalized ads enable beautiful things to happen.” → Read More
Streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube TV may raise their rates, but you can still save money
Sling TV, AT&T TV, and Hulu are raising rates. But the lack of the surcharges that cable and satellite TV charges means you can still save money. → Read More
This Startup Wants To Sell You Hipster A-La-Carte Streaming TV
A streaming startup founded by former executives at Disney and Discovery wants to give you what cable, satellite and even most current streaming-TV services won’t: à la carte TV. → Read More
Amazon wants your devices to talk to each other. Should you take a walk on Sidewalk?
Amazon is activating a peer-to-peer connectivity system called Amazon Sidewalk to enable its connected gadgets to work better. → Read More
Sluggish Wi-Fi? Here's how to find out who – or what – is hogging your bandwidth
Your Wi-Fi upgrade not making a difference? Track down which users or devices are dragging your network down. Check out these tools and tricks. → Read More
As Comcast enforces data caps nationwide, will AT&T, Verizon, Charter and other internet providers follow?
Comcast is expanding its 1.2TB data cap to more residential customers as folks continue to work and school from home. Here's what its rivals are doing. → Read More
Upload speeds still lag on most Americans’ broadband
At the cable providers that provide most Americans’ connectivity, upload speeds far lag download speeds. → Read More
On Apple iPhone 12, it's a battle of the 5G bands among AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile
Even though iPhone 12 supports all types of 5G, not every wireless carrier does. And many of the benefits of faster service are still slow to arrive. → Read More
AT&T shelving DSL may leave hundreds of thousands hanging by a phone line
AT&T stopped selling DSL Oct. 1, stranding many existing subscribers on low-speed links and residents of DSL-only areas without any wired broadband. → Read More