Let’s suppose for a minute that you are a customer of Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mobile and you want an iPhone. Chances are that you’re still caught in the death grip of your current service contract, and unless it’s about to expire, you’ll probably have to lighten your wallet by a hefty $200 to cover the [...]

Even though the Xbox 360 is statistically speaking the current leader in the next-gen console wars, it’s pretty far from perfect as many disappointed users will gladly tell you. From the beginning, the console has suffered from a variety of problems: some overheat and die, some scratch discs beyond repair, and all of them make [...]

The public was angry; they had had enough of the harsh oppression, the unrelenting control, and the panoptic supervision of the ruling elite. No longer was a distant monarchy going to exert its tyrannical oppression over the well-meaning individual; and the events that would soon come to pass where going to [...]

Flipping through channels, trying to find something to watch, I stumbled across a commercial set to an annoying tune. The commercial switched between the glowing commentaries of several different actual customers: “Vonage was so simple to install” and “No one asks, ‘hey, are you on VoIP?’” Well, they might not be [...]

Regardless of whether you’re into technology or not, you’ve probably heard various horror stories of how hackers have managed to commandeer the PCs of unsuspecting users to do their bidding. Traditionally a hacker would need to get a malicious piece of software – a.k.a. viruses and spyware – onto the intended [...]