Ari Herzog

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Mobile Technology and Your Small Business

Ari Herzog

Mobile technology is not one thing. Mobile technology is all these things and more. In my opinion, mobile technology is the future of all communications for your business, internally and externally. They (and you) believe in the creation of the social web and mobile technologies are the key reasons for this substantial climb.

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T-Mobile G2: My New Mobile Obsession

Ari Herzog

My new obsession is the T-Mobile G2. Here’s a picture I snapped of the two phones side by side : Launching last fall to many positive early reviews , the phone runs on the open source Android operating system and is pre-installed with every mobile application in Google’s arsenal. So far so good.

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Why I Never Appreciated WiFi Data Until Now

Ari Herzog

I share photos to Instagram nearly every day and it constantly syncs with the cloud; but over the past month, the app used a mere 84 MB of mobile data compared to a much larger 249 MB of wifi data. Over the past month, I used 7 GB of wifi data vs 1 GB of mobile data. Why was I paying so much for a mobile-heavy plan?

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Why LinkedIn Throttles My Searches

Ari Herzog

It takes into account (but is not limited to) non-name searches, mobile searches, searches outside your network, frequency of searching, viewing suggested profiles, and other factors. The lowest paid plan that allows that search is the “business plan” that costs $48 a month if billed annually, or $60 a month if billed every month.

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How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts

Ari Herzog

I see merchants show off what social networks they are on and what mobile technologies you can use inside the store. Small business owners are not telling customers about the featured beer or the cost of eggs. The only other product that is advertised is for Boar’s Head meat. Digital Media 4 – Tangible Products 1.

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Why the Kindle Fire is Not For Me

Ari Herzog

Other, bigger tablets do it better — usually at two or three times the cost. So, the Kindle Fire is great value and perhaps the best, tightest integration of digital content acquisition into a mobile device that we’ve yet seen. And, when mobile and wanting something in between, I have a netbook computer.

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Killing My BlackBerry Softly

Ari Herzog

This is not about the monthly cost of using the phone’s voice and data plans. This is about carrying a mobile device that I’ve outgrown and realized I don’t want it to control me. -- Thank you for reading Killing My BlackBerry Softly at AriWriter. What if I brought a disposable cell phone instead?

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