Wrapping Up the AT&T “Lose the Laptop” Challenge – A Retrospective
We are now in the final days of voting for the AT&T Lose the Laptop Challenge. It has been an interesting four months writing about different topics and how they relate to the HTC Tilt 2 smart phone. You can see all of my articles on the Lose the Laptop site here. But I thought […]
The Mobile Spy – “Ending It All” (The Finale & Part 4)
Catch up on Part 1 of “The Mobile Spy” here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here (on AT&T’s Lose the Laptop site) or Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here (on HighTechDad.com). He slept most of the way. He hadn’t realized how running on adrenaline had made him so incredibly tired. […]
The Mobile Spy – “The Final Purchase” (Part 3 of a 4 Part Story)
Catch up on Part 1 of “The Mobile Spy” here and Part 2 here (on AT&T’s Lose The Laptop) or Part 1 here and Part 2 here (on HighTechDad.com). He enjoyed the obscurity that the shadows of the train station provided him. He easily slipped between alcoves and doorways, at times jumping into the moving […]
The Mobile Spy – “Cypher, Location & Discovery” (Part 2 of a 4 Part Story)
Catch up on Part 1 of “The Mobile Spy” here (on AT&T’s Lose The Laptop) or here (on HighTechDad.com). He wondered how the hell they had found him. It must have been his business contact, Mark Z. He should never have trusted Mark. He should have known better. There is something about information exchange that […]
The Mobile Spy – “On the Run – The Train Station” (Part 1 of a 4 Part Story)
The acrid electronic smoke still lingered in his nose. He panted as he ran through the doors of the train station, carefully yet quickly glancing over his shoulder. He slipped through the front entrance, but did not take the main revolving door. You can get trapped too easily in those, he remembered his mentor telling […]
Shopping With Limericks & a Cell Phone
There once was a challenge from AT&T, That made my brow a bit sweat-y. To write about shopping, Got my brain really hopping, As I wrote on my Tilt 2 by HTC. The challenge was there for 30 days, My writing contained many a phrase. “Lose the Laptop,” they said, “Use the Tilt 2 instead,” […]
The Forgotten
As the sliding glass door closed, I knew that something was wrong. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I hoped the feeling of the unknown would pass but for some reason, it only helped to raise my panic level a bit more. The lights burned in a clean magnesium fire brightness, rows […]
10 Father’s Day Shopping Tips – But First, Bring your Cell Phone!
With Father’s Day right around the corner, how are you going to make your Dad (or husband) happy? For me, any type of gadget will make me grin, but that is probably not what each and every dad wants. The best bet is to develop a strategy with your siblings or kids in order to […]
10 Reasons Why You Need a Smartphone when you Shop
I’m not really sure how we did it in the past. Shopping without a cell phone, that is. To me, if I even leave the house for any reason and I don’t have my cell phone, if I’m 10 minutes or less away from my house, I will turn around and go back and get […]