Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Quick Tech News

Here are couple of tech news tidbits that I ran across recently (translation: I am too lazy to do a real blog post):

According to Nielsen, by the end of the 2008, an estimated 20% of U.S. households will have ditched the phone company and will only have mobile phones (they will be years behind us [...]

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Sony Recalls Vaio Laptops

Well, it has been a while since there was a significant laptop recall, but you knew it would happen again.
Sony has issued a voluntary recall of 438,000 Vaio laptop computer due to the possibility of overheating that could potentially burn the user.
According to the statement by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Sony gotten 15 [...]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Windows Vista Makes Big Strides

Last month, the VP of Windows Vista marketing Brad Brooks openly acknowledged that Microsoft has felt the pressure from the negative publicity surrounding Windows Vista.
“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain.”
At the center of the negative publicity stood Apple with the “I’m a [...]

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Internet Security Suites

Most new computers these days come preloaded with some form of Internet Security, usually McAfee or, *gasp*, Norton.  These are usually in the form of a trial version for up to 15 months with the hopes that, when the trial period is expired you will be so intimidated by the thought of installing a different [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Best Buy Will Sell iPhone

Best Buy is scheduled to start selling Apple’s iPhone on September 7.  This is huge for Best Buy because it makes them the first independent retailer to be allowed to do this and it makes them the first U.S. retailer to do so.
Best Buy already had an inside track due to the fact that they [...]