Jamey Tucker
Reporter

Jamey Tucker has worked in television news for stations across the South for over 25 years. A graduate of Carson Newman University Jamey has worked as a news anchor and reporter in Huntsville, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; and Nashville, Tennessee. Jamey is one of the first reporters in the country covering the consumer technology beat.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
If you’re planning a trip to the mainland, you want to be prepared.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 5:03 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Crisis Text Line is a 24-hour, 7 day a week service where teenagers can text with a licensed counselor.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 5:03 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
An emergency update to Google’s Chrome browser has been released and the company says every computer user should update the browser right away.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 1:59 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
It could also give you the upper hand on criminals.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 5:38 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Here’s the idea: use the app to find special gas deals where you can save as much as 25-cents per gallon.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 3:28 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Over time a computer desktop gets cluttered with file folders, photos, documents, and games. For some people, like myself, it’s enough of a mess to cause some stress.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 4:56 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
There’s a storage room in our house just off the basement. It’s a room where we keep important things like the artificial Christmas tree and ornaments.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 5:04 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
“It could be everything from fuel, food, water supply, electricity.”
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 5:14 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Foap is a licensing company that works as a clearinghouse, connecting amateur shutterbugs with companies looking for great quality photos.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
The Better Business Bureau is warning people about the scam that is a combination of “catfishing” and “smishing” scams.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 5:02 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
When was the last time you Googled yourself? Go ahead and enter your name in a Google search to see what comes up.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
If you’re going to be staying in an Airbnb, hotel, or other rental property, you might want to take a few minutes to search for hidden cameras.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 4:50 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
If you have a Windows PC, you should read this story and immediately check to see if your computer has the latest security updates.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
March 14-19 is Sleep Awareness Week and it comes at a good time.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 5:02 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
If it falls into the wrong hands, it could be used for the wrong reasons.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2022 at 4:59 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Police departments across the country are getting reports of Apple AirTag trackers being discovered by people who had no idea they were being tracked.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 5:09 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
The hack is called “Man in the Middle” or “Evil Twin.”
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 4:22 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Online surveys became a popular way for people to make some extra money during the pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 5:03 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
With gas prices soaring again, we’re all looking for stations with the lowest price.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 5:02 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Millennials, Generation X, and Generation Z are more susceptible to scams than their predecessors.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2022 at 4:45 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Maybe you already know it’s not a good idea to over-share on social media. Then you find yourself answering one of those lists of questions posted by one of your friends.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2022 at 6:32 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
You can’t go a single day without hearing about NFTs. Non-fungible tokens.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 4:58 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Two events pose a threat to Americans’ ability to connect to the internet. Hackers have always posed a threat through DNS attacks, or denial of services.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 4:59 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
It isn’t the end of the world as we know it, but it is the end of time ― according to computer programs and systems.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Cloning a Facebook profile is both easy and lucrative for the bad guys.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 9:56 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
First, it was Zoom live video conferences that literally changed the way companies and businesses could meet and work together.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2022 at 9:48 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Travel websites are great for window-shopping and you may run across a particularly good deal with bundle specials.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 10:03 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Facebook and other companies have everything they need to combine our names and faces to be identified in photos and videos using facial recognition.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 9:54 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Reelgood is a smartphone and iPad app to help you see only the content you can see from your subscriptions. And it’s really good at it.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 9:48 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
The FBI is warning people that romance scams are on the rise and the cyber criminals often get more active around Valentine’s Day.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 9:30 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Armed with a smartphone, children have access to billions of websites, millions of apps, and images online and sent from other people.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 9:43 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
These codes can launch programs on the smartphone once the victim scans the code and taps the address bar that shows up on the screen.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 at 3:57 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Amazon Prime customers will soon have to pay more to save money.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2022 at 9:49 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Uptime provides bite-size ideas and thoughts from some of the greatest minds in the world.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 9:44 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
One of the best things about the Super Bowl every year is the deals it brings on TVs.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 5:10 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Trusting reviews on Amazon has been a tricky thing since the early days of online shopping.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 5:03 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
It is one of the hardest things to do on the internet. Switching from one music streaming platform to other.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 3:36 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Now that some musical artists are removing their music catalog from Spotify over its Joe Rogan podcast, many Spotify users are beginning to wonder what the other streaming services are like.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2022 at 5:05 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
The app shows you everything available by streaming on all of the acpopular services.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 4:04 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
It’s the biggest lie on the internet: people saying they’ve read the terms of service agreements before installing an app or signing up for a service.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 5:14 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
If you’ve been paying attention to the stock market lately, you may have decided to sell everything. Or you may decide to “buy the dip.”
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 5:06 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
You want to pay just for the internet speed you need. It’s important to get as close to the right plan as you can because internet plans vary in price from $25-$100.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 5:06 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Keeping good records of expenses is one thing, keeping them organized is another.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2022 at 9:47 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Here are some frequently asked questions surrounding 5G.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2022 at 5:07 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Don’t believe everything you read on Facebook.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2022 at 2:28 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Internet speeds have improved across the country, but still, your internet may be too slow for a simple video call.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2022 at 5:01 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
It isn’t an app, but a game played only in an internet browser.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2022 at 5:07 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
When Apple founder Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, here’s how he described it: “An iPod, a phone, and an internet connecting device.”
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 5:04 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
While there are many ways the virus can be transmitted from one person to the other, it is a good idea to reconsider smartphones and other devices and how they are used by several people each day.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 5:19 PM HST
|By Jamey Tucker
Do you think you can spot a scam? Even the savviest online shopper may fall for a tactic the FBI is warning people about.