Tracy Davidson

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SAN FRANCISCO — With an eye on the holiday selling season, Apple on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its iconic iPod line of media players, a revamp of its underperforming Apple TV box, and a new social media network in iTunes.
In a widely anticipated announcement, Apple (AAPL) cut the price of Apple TV to [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A hot new smartphone can be Incredible, Vibrant, Epic or just “eh,” but no matter how it stacks up, it’s a safe bet that it will start selling at $199.
On the four major wireless networks — Verizon Wireless (VZ, Fortune 500), AT&T, Sprint (S, Fortune 500) and T-Mobile — there are [...]

Airlines are about to learn a lesson that countless coffeehouses grasped years ago: free WiFi can pay off.
While worldwide carriers this year will almost triple the number of airplanes that offer onboard Internet access, fewer than one in 50 passengers currently fork over the $5 or more to connect their laptop computers or smartphones to [...]

Attention music lovers! If you’ve been holding out for a new iPod, your time may have come. Reports say that technology giant Apple (AAPL) may introduce a new line of iPods at an event on Sept. 1.
In recent years, Apple has used September events to unveil a new iPod in time for the holiday spending [...]

Bank of America will start testing a system next month that would allow people to pay New York-area merchants through their mobile phones instead of swiping plastic credit or debit cards.
New York City taxis, Walgreen drugstores, Home Depot and McDonald’s in the region will be able to accept the mobile payments. The service may be [...]

USA TODAY
Q: Hi Steve — I follow you on Twitter, as I follow a lot of people. My question is – do I really need to have a lot of Twitter followers? What good do they do a small business guy like me, and if I do need them, how do I get them?
A: There [...]

Facebook is following in the footsteps of younger social-networking sites by adding a “Places” feature that lets you share your real-world location with online friends.
As company representatives explained at an event at Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif., offices and wrote in a blog post, you’ll be able to tap a “Check In” button to announce your [...]

Lazaros Kalemis is a loyal user of Apple’s iPhone. But when he went to Phillies games at Citizens Bank Park earlier this year, his smartphone seemed to play dumb. He’d joke with friends that it was easier to find AT&T billboards than bars of service on his signal display.
No longer. The wireless-phone industry may be [...]

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Rapidly rising pay and benefits in the armed forces have lifted many military towns into the ranks of the nation’s most affluent communities, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
The hometown of the Marines’ Camp Lejeune — Jacksonville, N.C. — soared to the nation’s 32nd-highest income per person in 2009 among the 366 U.S. metropolitan areas, [...]

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday unveiled the Motorola Droid 2, the successor to one of the company’s most prominent and best-selling devices.
The Droid 2 will be available in stores Thursday and for pre-sale online Wednesday. Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) will sell the new smartphone for $199 with a new two-year contract.
The biggest improvement the Droid 2 [...]