Month: November 2017

That hacker forced RT to halt its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and trains to their routes. Source: Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker

Broadband packages are notoriously difficult to untangle. Prices are obscured with introductory discounts and the speeds you get are nothing like what was advertised. It sucks, and the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) knows it. […]

Windows 10 is supposed to include support for memory address randomization techniques that stop certain kinds of malware. Unfortunately, that protection isn’t currently working. Source: Key Windows 10 Anti-Malware Tech Critically Broken – ExtremeTech

I ruffled a few feathers yesterday urging phone makers to stop trying to kill the headphone jack. Xiaomi’s Jai Mani shared brands’ side of the story. Source: Counterpoint: Why phone makers are trying to kill […]

This unfortunate trend continues to plague devices well into 2017, and we’re still in danger of losing one of the most essential features on phones today. Source: Stop trying to kill the headphone jack

It’s so bad I was in the Grand Central Station Apple Store for a third time in a year, watching a progress bar slowly creep across my computer’s black screen as my Genius multi-tasked helping […]

http://www.schiit.com/about/about/on-deals   ON “DEALS” We get asked all the time about deals, sales and other incentives, such as Black Friday specials, EZ credit, trade-ins, monthly payments, purchasing with 2 cards, and a whole raft of […]

The system was sent into meltdown today when the firm accidentally triggered a computer crash, causing long lines of upset passengers to form at airports across the globe. Source: Airport check-in systems crash was caused […]

For all the hand-wringing over the amount of data Google and Facebook have on us, the ISPs through which we connect to the internet have much more. VPN services are often cited as a way […]

T-Mobile has been a tempting option for travelers, and for good reason: if you’ve traveled to Canada or Mexico, you’ve had as much LTE data as you wanted without fear of returning to a giant […]