If you experience shoddy AT&T reception inside your home or small office, you may be eligible for a free AT&T MicroCell device, according to what appears to be an internal document leaked to Engadget.
The MicroCell is a little box that plugs into your home internet connection and acts as short-range, personal AT&T cell tower of sorts. …
Remember early June? Summer nights, trendy flip flops, drinks on restaurant patios, etc.? June 10th shattered all those fuzzy feelings with news of a massive security breach affecting iPad 3G owners. “Shattered” might be a bit overdramatic, but let’s just go with it in the interest of moving the story along.
The short and skinny …
If you purchased or upgraded to a new Verizon phone before the big iPhone announcement last week, perhaps your fists are bruised with the rage of a thousand poundings to your desk as you watched the news unfold.
“Two years!” you screamed into the night, your voice hoarse with a rage similar to the rage associated with the …
Against all odds, the government has managed to make the issue of online privacy even more boring. It’s true! Several news outlets (including this one now) are referring to a recent proposal from the Commerce Department as “the privacy bill of rights,” to try to spice things up a bit.
In reality, it’s a 70-page document called the …
Comcast has apparently started testing its own web-connected cable boxes in an Augusta, Georgia pilot program, according to the Wall Street Journal. The project is referred to as “Xcalibur” internally, though participating customers reportedly know of it as “Spectrum.”
This project is not new. Job postings for it sprung up over a year …
The January 2011 issue of Consumer Reports hits the newsstands tomorrow and features the results from a survey of 58,000 readers regarding the overall levels of satisfaction with their respective cell phone service providers.
AT&T ranks lowest among U.S. carriers and, according to Consumer Reports, “was the only one to drop …
A man in Cedar Hills, Texas claims that his Motorola Droid 2 smartphone exploded as he was talking on it, causing damage extensive enough to warrant four stitches inside his ear.
“I didn’t feel any pain initially,” Aron Embry told CBS News. “I pulled the phone down, I felt something dripping, I realized that it probably was …
When Apple announced its new 1.5-inch touchscreen iPod Nano in early September, it didn’t take long before people started dreaming of making the tiny music player into a wristwatch.
About two weeks ago, a Chicago-area designer named Scott Wilson turned to fundraising site Kickstarter.com to try to drum up some financial support for …
For website owners, a spot on the first page of Google’s search results for a given query is the holy grail. Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine a site’s influence on the web and assigns it a “Page Rank,” named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
Though the full details of how the Page Rank system works are a …
It’s the Super Bowl of shopping, the Olympics of overspending, the ultimate culmination of consumer exuberance. It’s Black Friday!
Here’s a list of retail stores and their time-limited doorbuster deals. Be sure to check out Techland’s Black Friday Awards on the final page for an overview of where to find the best (and worst) …
Are you there Google? It’s me, Doug. Whether it’s right or not, you’re getting worked left and right with this Google TV thing. Being blocked by all the major networks was bad enough, but now Viacom’s blocking you too.
Sure, Viacom is only a handful of basic cable stations but most of those stations represent the key demographic …
Verizon’s 4G wireless network will be available in most major cities by the end of the year, though pricing for the service hasn’t yet been revealed. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the company hinted at speed-based service fees similar to how home broadband plans are priced.
Just like with broadband providers such as …
