Americans love their cell phones — most of us can’t live without them. Yet the Better Business Bureau reports that cell phone providers are the No. 1 cause of complaints among consumers.
This is mostly due to incorrect billing, confusing fees, unexpected charges, and deceptive contracts. These can certainly add up, but I was shocked to […]
While people are busy debating whether or not driving video games turn people into bad drivers, I’m sure everyone will be happy to know that violent video games don’t turn children into killers. Jack Thompson must be so disappointed. This sounds like a more academic version of the point that a few people made two […]
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Is Apple’s Safari browser a resource hog?
That’s the question posed at Macenstein, which ran tests comparing the Apple browser to the popular Firefox software.
The article’s author tested his Mac by conducting a series of tasks using both browsers. He claims that the computer performed the tasks significantly slower when Safari was open, compared to when […]
By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: February 28, 2007, 8:07 AM PST
Book publishers have been pretty vocal in their dislike for Google’s plan to scan books and make them searchable via a great big electronic card catalog — claiming that this somehow is a misuse of their content. That seems like a stretch, since Google is never making the complete content of the book available (just […]
NEW YORK (AP) - A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle.
Dow Jones & Co., the media company that manages the well-known index of 30 blue chip stocks, said it discovered shortly before 2 p.m. that […]
By Eliot Van Buskirk| Also by this reporter
12:00 PM Feb, 23, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent isn’t the only winner in a federal jury’s $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression format.
Backers of alternative formats have sought for years to replace MP3, which offers relatively lower quality […]
Apple, long a ghost in the corporate-infrastructure mainstream, is beginning to cast a shadow as IT departments discover Mac platforms that are being transformed into realistic alternatives to Windows and Linux.
A number of factors are helping raise the eyebrows of those responsible for upgrading desktops and servers: for example, Apple’s shift to the Intel architecture; […]
By MADLEN READ
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks had their worst day of trading since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 400 points on a worldwide tide of concern that the U.S. and Chinese economies are stumbling and that share prices have become overinflated.
The steepness […]