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Columnist/Reporter | Technology

Phone: 612-673-4553

Steve Alexander follows consumer and business technology trends, and writes a weekly question and answer column for consumers. He also is a general-assignment reporter for business news.

Small Internet providers fading

Competitors for high-speed DSL service are disappearing because big carrier CenturyLink no longer has to share its network.

Updated: April 29, 2012, - 11:36 AM

USI Wi-Fi upgrade will add speed, for some in Minneapolis

A fiber-optic cable could help up to 10,000 south Minneapolis households.

Updated: April 25, 2012, - 09:36 PM

C.H. Robinson is caught in the middle

Profit met expectations, but trucking costs are rising faster than the firm can raise prices.

Updated: April 24, 2012, - 10:35 PM

Alexander: Why an iPad can't be read in sunshine

QFor an iPad to have a display that is only readable indoors is a real deficiency. Why hasn't Apple made progress in creating an iPad that could be read outside in the daylight?

Updated: April 24, 2012, - 04:18 PM

An app for different appetites

A Burnsville couple have developed at a $2.99 nutritional app called NxtNutrio that lists ingredients and rates foods.

Updated: April 21, 2012, - 05:58 PM

Cautious patients help UnitedHealth

A 3 percent rise in profit, thanks in part to fewer big claims, beat Wall Street estimates.

Updated: April 19, 2012, - 10:01 PM

Alexander: Antivirus software won't always coexist

QI'm planning to buy a Windows 7 PC and transfer everything to it from my old Windows XP computer. I read that you recommend the Malwarebytes security program. Will it interfere with my existing Norton security software on the new PC?

Updated: April 17, 2012, - 04:40 PM

Merger will remodel Stratasys

The merger of Stratasys with Objet Ltd. of Israel would give the Eden Prairie company a second headquarters and greater access to foreign markets for its quick product prototype machines.

Updated: April 16, 2012, - 09:31 PM

IBM offering companies their own cloud

The new computers, designed for smaller corporations, deliver cloud computing without the Internet's security concerns.

Updated: April 11, 2012, - 09:13 PM

Alexander: Their PC was turned into Internet 'bot'

QWe received an e-mail from Comcast's Xfinity Internet service that said our PC may be infected with "bot" software, which we hadn't heard of before. But I can't tell that there's anything wrong.

Updated: April 10, 2012, - 09:29 PM