UPDATE: Looks like the issue has been fixed now.
Oh, lovely. Check this out before Facebook patches this up—hopefully they’ll get it fixed quickly. Go to Facebook and try to log in with someone else’s e-mail address. Don’t worry about the password, it doesn’t matter. If this person has a Facebook account, you’ll see their full name, …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just announced some big, big wins for consumers. Labeled as “exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act,” a law enacted in the late ’90s to protect copyright holders against piracy, it’s now within consumers’ legal rights to jailbreak phones, rip DVDs (for certain uses), and a 2006 …
Are all you hard-working students who read Techland enjoying your summer so far? Well, lap it up because according to Staples, July 14 will serve “as the official start to the 2010 back-to-school shopping season.”
Now that doesn’t mean you’ll need to go back to school right away but you’ll surely be reminded that the new school year …
The wife and I just got back from a cruise. It was unforgettable! I won’t be able to forget it no matter how hard I try. The food that hovered somewhere in between airplane food and wedding food? Unforgettable. The compulsory 15% tip for everything plus the expected extra tip plus the $12 per person per day tip that’s added to the …
There’s been a recall issued for Sony VAIO laptops in the VPCF11 series (shown above) and the VPCCW2 series (shown below).
These particular models would have been sold at Best Buy, Costco, Frys, Amazon, and directly from Sony between January and April of this year for prices between $800 and $1,500.
According to the recall, …
If you’ve been experiencing less than optimal signal strength with your new iPhone 4, your options thus far are to hold it differently, find some tape, or call AppleCare for a solution.
Calling AppleCare doesn’t look like it’s going to be all that productive, though, as documents apparently leaked to The Boy Genius Report explain …
If you’re iRate that your new iPhone seemingly gets all wonky when you cover the lower left corner with your hand, Fast Company has what may be the least expensive fix short of following Steve Jobs’ advice of “Just avoid holding it that way.”
The basic idea is to cut a tiny piece of Scotch tape and place it over the little black …
If you’ve opened up the App Store on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad recently, you were likely prompted to accept Apple’s new terms and conditions policy before being able to download anything. It happened to me yesterday and, acting like a true consumer, I accepted the policy without reading all 45+ pages of it on my phone’s tiny …
If you haven’t been following the iPhone 4 preordering fiasco, here’s a quick recap. Yesterday was the first day the phone could be preordered and the first units out the door were to arrive by June 24th. AT&T and Apple’s ordering systems were quickly overloaded, leading to mismatched customer account information, credit card …
After reports yesterday involving glitches in the iPhone 4 preordering systems through both Apple and AT&T—servers crashing, ordering systems overloaded, stores taking handwritten orders, and more—it appears that simply not being able to preorder an iPhone 4 wasn’t the only problem.
Gizmodo is reporting that several would-be …
If you purchased an iPhone 3GS in the past month or so, it appears that AT&T will be extending its price protection policy until June 14th or later.
According to leaked memos obtained by ModMyi.com, anyone who purchased a 16GB iPhone 3GS after May 7th can either get a $50 credit on their bill or exchange the phone for the iPhone 4 …
Hear me out, hear me out. I’m not just calling for cheap smartphones and free service because I’m cheap (I am cheap). Rather, I think a company like, oh, let’s use Google as an example, could provide a viable alternative to expensive phones and even more expensive cell phone plans.
Google makes money by selling targeted …
