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Why paying full price for your smartphone is a good idea

By Ted Kritsonis

Despite the fact three-year contracts offer more attractive upfront pricing for premium smartphones, the duration of the term could actually make the phone more expensive and difficult to resell.

Tips to save on data costs while traveling

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Anyone who has been dinged by their carrier’s roaming charges knows it’s no fun. Here are some tips to stay connected without getting bled dry. In a perfect world, there would be no roaming charges for…

Desperate times ahead for RIM

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla The Canadian  smartphone innovator can’t release new handsets until 2013, is cutting 5,000 jobs and facing losses of $518 million. What’s next for Research In Motion?

What goes into making one of TomTom’s maps?

By Ted Kritsonis

TomTom has become a renowned brand for mapping and navigation, but getting to that point required mapping and updating the geography to help drivers get to where they wanted to go. At an exclusive press event in the Caribbean island of Martinique, we got a firsthand look at what goes into mapping a place virtually from scratch.