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Motorola DROID Roadster 2 and Jawbone ERA HeadsetSmartphones are great when they are accessible in your hand, but put them in your pocket, purse or briefcase and functionality greatly diminishes. Bluetooth wireless accessories from many companies have been created to help give people safer access to voice operations of their smartphones. Accessories from Motorola and Jawbone are easier to purchase now that they are available from Verizon Wireless Stores. They have a wide range of gadgets for the home and office.

Talking while driving with a smartphone in hand is extremely dangerous and several states have outlawed the practice. Bluetooth headsets and portable speakers from Motorola and Jawbone are highly recommended, if you must talk while driving. Motorola makes a speaker that clips onto a car visor while Jawbone has engineered a very light headset.
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Welcome To The 2014 Verizon Wireless Influencer Summit

I recently visited San Francisco, California for a few days this month with several of my online and in real life friends. We attended the Verizon Influencer Summit 2014 at the Verizon Innovation Center West. Verizon was nice enough to pickup the travel tab, hotel and Uber transportation service.

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Verizon recently introduced their best Nokia Lumia smartphone in mid February called the ICON. Nokia combined the best parts of the Lumia 1520 and shrunk them down into a smaller form factor, perfect for carrying around everyday. The 20MP camera on the Icon has manual controls, which helps me to take better photos. Sharing photos with friends via Instagram, Facebook, Vine and other networks keeps them up to date.

Nokia Lumia ICON Unboxing

Sharing photos that are 20MP in size usually takes a while, but Verizon’s 4G LTE service helped me to get them posted faster than with other services. Their service works in many more places that the others don’t. Most of the photo sharing apps I use now allow videos like Vine and Instagram. I need the fastest 4G LTE available to get my posts out there.

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Winter is a great time to travel to exotic locales or plan a few adventures for the New Year. During this holiday season, I tested a few products that will keep professional adventurers charged up, able to chronicle the fun and be prepared for almost any occasion.

One fact that you can count on, while traveling during the winter, are flight delays. Airlines like Delta have installed charging outlets in gate seating areas across its network to help travelers. However, eight outlets per changing stand for 140 or more passengers aren’t enough.

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Netgear is synonymous with home and small business grade networking hardware. They are a fierce competitor to other brands producing top-of-the-line WiFi routers, but like in the Lord Of The Rings, there can only be one. The ONE might just be Netgear’s Nighthawk R7000 Gigabit WiFi router.
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Record sales in developing regions, the new 2015 Mustang GT 500 and an amazing glimpse at the future of the Ford Motor Company are some of the things I learned about on my recent visit to their World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

The last few years have been rough on the auto industry as a whole. Many of the car companies in the US have had to sell divisions and even ask for a bailout from the government. Ford may have had to pair down by a few subsidiaries, but they never took a bailout. That’s what makes covering this company so interesting.
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