They aren't advertising this at all, unfortunately. This only affects grandfathered-in contracts.

Sprint customers can use the Verizon network. So, why use Verizon?

Sprint can use Verizon for voice and 1x data, but they do not use Verizon's 3G service.

Not that I know of, I am on Outlook 2010 hosted Exchange with Appriver, unlimited storage. My mailbox is around ~16GB.

• Have only two folders: Inbox, and Reference.
• When an email comes in and it does not need to be acted on, read it, then move it to Reference.
• If an email needs to be acted upon, leave it in your inbox until the task is complete. This may be hours, days, weeks or months. But everything in your inbox is something that is waiting on someone.

I frequently had a habit of reading emails on my smartphone and forgetting about them. Now, I can either move them to Reference on my phone, or do it when I get back to my desk. But nothing slips through the cracks this way, which was a huge problem when I first got a smartphone.

If Duetsche Telekom doesn't want T-Mobile anymore (which evidence suggests is the case), and they can't sell it to AT&T, what is going to happen to it?

DT spins it off as a separate company with a new identity?

Can you really do group chat with no central server?

ICQ proved that it was possible over a decade ago. Simultaneously, they proved that it was not a good idea (as I remember friends saying, "Who are you talking to? I don't see him! Re-invite!").

Not a bad idea, but one must take into account the life span of CDMA networks - Verizon has said they plan on deprecating their 3G network for Voice-over-LTE by 2013. Perhaps 1XRTT will be around for years after that, but it's still a technology that won't be around for as long as GPS will be.

Did you even read the article you linked to? No, it's not most of the land area, but hardly "just the Houston area initially."

Verizon announced today that it is bringing the world’s first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to the Houston area. The initial availability of a 4G LTE wireless network in Houston is part of the company’s major network launch in 38 major metropolitan areas by the end of the year. In addition, the company is launching 4G LTE in more than 60 commercial airports coast to coast

With a statement like that, you'd almost expect Amazon to be selling eBooks at a 60-to-1 ratio compared to rival Apple.

In other words, they know bloody well it is a tool for killing people, not a dick-replacement for middle-aged balding men.

You act like middle-aged balding men are the leading demographic of gun crimes.

Yet the US allows gun ownership

The US doesn't "allow" gun ownership. We recognize it as a fundamental human right, the right of self-defense.

You don't understand how government IT works these days.

Most government IT shops in the U.S. have not yet recovered from the election of Bush the Younger. When he came into office, [cut for sanity]

Right, it's all Bush's fault. Just like everything else.

I am not the typical idiot user. I'm the guy most people come to when they have a question.

I didn't realize that the circle with the Windows logo in upper left was a menu for almost a month.

Which is why they replaced it with "Backstage" in Office 2010.

Blackberry - goes to 90mph, drives comfortably, reliably, and 45% of the nation drives one, but no one talks about theirs. However, it looks like a 1986 Taurus.