Budget Beauty Finds
December 24, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet There’s no need to convince–when I wax on about Target, I’m usually preaching to the choir. It takes restraint to avoid this big box, but when a publicist pitched something, I was reminded of some fab deals at Target and another budget retailer. The pioneer of designer fashions for the masses, Target [...]
BlackBerry Tablet Coming In March?
November 19, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Leisure & Culture, Smartphones & Gadgets
Send to KindleTweet Will Flash and a secure Enterprise-friendly operating system be enough to lure luxury market consumers and business executives to purchase the Playbook from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion? To the consumer, Flash is a big deal and the promise of a touch screen tablet with the capability to run Flash and Java might be enough to [...]
Coffee 2.0
November 11, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life
Send to KindleTweet Is it possible New Yorkers are so much busier than everyone else in the world that prepaid lattes are necessary? This is a theory Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks is testing out, with a new service available in NYC and Long Island. Available at 300 locations to start, the Starbucks Card Mobile App [...]
BlackBerry-Apple Harmony
September 9, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet BlackBerry users are loyal because we sleep with the smartphone and have grown accustomed to the keyboard, which enables typing at standard work speed. When AT&T launched the Torch , CrackBerry users were hoping it would quell the desire to one day switch to the iPhone. That didn’t happen because the pressure [...]
The CrackBerry Orgasm: RIM & AT&T Score
August 3, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet For as long as I’ve been a BlackBerry addict and as long as the iPhone existed, I’ve longed for a smartphone with a full physical QWERTY keyboard and touch capabilities. It has arrived and I hate the name. I have yet to test this gadget in person but AT&T folks can buy [...]
AT&T To Lose iPhone Exclusivity?
July 1, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Apple is a cult and as such, can often apply the laws of magical realism to average products (iPad) but in the case of the iPhone, credit is due. So when Bloomberg News posted an article on Tuesday that the beloved touchscreen phone may really be coming to Verizon Wireless, I did [...]
CrackBerry TV Love
June 24, 2010 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Streaming TV for the BlackBerry is like all those things you never knew you needed that could change your life–a hot yet work appropriate polyester dress masquerading as silk, the bad-on-paper mate, the not-so-gentle-buzz… Each has a small impact on your life and however fleeting, adds value. Such is the case of [...]
Wireless Charging
December 31, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Michigan-based HoMedicas Powermat North America may have given us the answer to poor electrical systems, thanks to their multi-tasking charger. The Powermat is a system that enables gadget addicts to charge three handhelds and entertainment devices at once, while using just one plug. Once you buy the pad and plug it in, [...]
Google’s Gift To You: Free Airport Wireless
November 10, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Leisure & Culture, The Daily Bitch
Send to KindleTweet This holiday season, let’s call Google the WiFi gods. From now until January 15, Google is footing the bill for WiFi at 47 select U.S. airports. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again—In Google We Trust. Of course this is spoken by a BlackBerry-carrying MacBook using Firefox fan. But, G1, [...]
BlackBerry Nav 3.0
September 18, 2009 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Leisure & Culture
Click here for details on the next big upgrade to all BlackBerry smart phones


