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Spending 40 Hours A Year Stuck In Traffic Doesn't Sound Like Much Fun
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 22, 2012 2:00 PM
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There are a lot of things you can fill 40 hours of your life with. Gazing at waterfalls, eating a few wheels of cheese, taking some nice long walks with your dog or flying to Fiji — the possibilities are endless. All of those things are better than spending more than an average of 40 hours sitting idle in traffic a year, which is what one study says is true for Americans in 10 cities. More »
Dozens Or Hundreds Of Apple Devices Burgled From Chicago Best Buy
By Laura Northrup on May 9, 2012 10:30 AM
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How many Apple gadgets did thieves remove from a Chicago Best Buy this past weekend? Police gave the media a modest estimate of only $42,000 worth of iPads, MacBooks, and GPS devices. However, an unnamed source whispered to CBS Chicago that the figure could be closer to $200,000, with the haul including a few hundred iPads. More »
Cops Waking Up Drivers Who Leave Cellphones, GPS And Other Valuables In Their Cars
By Chris Morran on April 10, 2012 3:30 PM
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If you live in Richmond, VA, and have a habit of leaving your phone, GPS device or some other valuable item in your car, don't be surprised if you're woken up in the middle of the night by your local police officer. More »
Property Owners Find Out They've Moved From South To North Carolina
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 26, 2012 1:00 PM
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Back in the days of yore, say, a few hundred years ago, when you needed to mark a state line, well you could just hack a mark in a tree with a hatchet. But in the case of North and South Carolina property owners, when those trees eventually cease to exist, residents have to deal with the repercussions, as many are finding out they actually own property in the other state. More »
Best Buy Customer Service Has No Idea How Actual Best Buy Stores Work
By Laura Northrup on March 23, 2012 3:15 PM
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That headline is not what one might call "surprising." But when Noelle's mom found an old, unopened charger bought at Best Buy and still had the receipt, the nice representative on the phone advised her to visit a brick-and-mortar store where they could "buy back" the item instead of accepting it as a return. Except there isn't any such program, so the duo wasted their time and had to, you know, go to Best Buy. Poor things. More »
FCC Reminds Everyone That Cellphone Jamming & Jamming Devices Are Illegal
By Chris Morran on March 6, 2012 4:30 PM
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Even while the Federal Communications Commission is asking for comments on the temporary blocking or disabling of wireless signals by law enforcement, it wants to stress to everyone that there is no legal gray area when it comes to cellphone jamming and jamming devices. More »
Google Will Beam Information Directly Into Your Eyeballs With New Glasses
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 22, 2012 2:00 PM
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Apparently Google doesn't think smartphones are distraction enough, because they're reportedly working on glasses that would stream information on the go into wearers' eyeballs in real time. We foresee a lot of people walking into walls. More »
Government Passes A Bill To Let Airplanes Land Faster & Allow Remote-Controlled Drones To Roam The Skies
By Mary Beth Quirk on February 8, 2012 2:00 PM
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Five years of fighting and a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration have finally resulted in Congress passing a bill that could change the experience of flying commercial as we know it. The skies are going to get a lot more tech-y, to put it very simply. More »
TomTom Ticks Off Customers With Pricing Errors, Tries To Make Good
By Chris Morran on February 7, 2012 7:01 PM
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Angry TomTom customers have been writing to us all day today to complain that the GPS maker had canceled orders they placed last week on the company's website. More »
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By Phil Villarreal on January 25, 2012 7:30 AM
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Microsoft Patents GPS Feature That Steers You Away From Slums
By Phil Villarreal on January 9, 2012 9:15 AM
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Anyone who lets their GPS do the thinking for them has ended up on some uncomfortable treks through frightening backstreets and rough areas that you'd rather avoid. Microsoft has patented a feature that will teach a GPS advice to help pedestrians stick to presumably safer streets, as well as "an open area subject to harsh temperatures." More »
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Best Buy Pulls A Rare Move And Actually Makes A Customer Happy
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 14, 2011 2:00 PM
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We get a lot of customer service complaints about Best Buy. So much so, that when a piece of reader mail comes in commending them for doing something good, well, it's an event that needs to be remarked upon. That's where James comes in. More »
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By Phil Villarreal on December 13, 2011 8:00 AM
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By Phil Villarreal on November 25, 2011 8:30 AM
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TomTom Sends Mangled Warranty Replacement, Plenty Of Excuses
By Laura Northrup on November 11, 2011 8:04 AM
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After about six months of use and while it was still under warranty, the TomTom iPhone Car Kit Mark purchased failed. The onboard GPS booster and Bluetooth that are the entire point of the device stopped working. Some highlights of Mark's struggle with the company: TomTom initially wouldn't replace it, claiming that the warranty was void since they no longer make the product. Then they sent Mark what was clearly another customer's return—a scratched-up unit without power cords. They claimed that they couldn't send a power cord because Apple makes the cable. Because Apple manufactures black car-to-mini-USB cables. More »
I Want A Smartphone That Doesn't Sneak Off To Slorp Data In The Wee Hours
By Laura Northrup on November 3, 2011 9:30 AM
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The point of having a smartphone that can use wi-fi networks is so the device uses less data, right? Especially at night, when you're at home snoozing, enveloped in the comforting waves of your home Internet connection. Yet Anthony's phone and his father's phone sneak off, accessing the mobile data network in the wee hours of the morning and pushing them over the limits of their T-Mobile data plan. They could just turn the phones off at night, but this is far from their only problem with these phones. Far. But T-Mobile won't let them have different, functional phones or cut them loose. More »
Psychic On Trial For Theft, Tax Evasion
By Phil Villarreal on October 19, 2011 9:45 AM
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There's no word about what Tarot cards, life lines or crystal balls have to say about a Colorado psychic on trial for theft and tax evasion, but common sense says things don't look good for the suspect. She's accused of telling clients that their money was evil and she needed to cleanse it before returning it to them. She didn't follow through with the promise to give it back and allegedly made off with $300,000. More »
One In Three Gap Stores In U.S. Will Be Closed By End Of 2013
By Chris Morran on October 13, 2011 3:45 PM
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Earlier today, the folks at once-mammoth clothing retailer Gap Inc. announced plans to shutter even more of its namesake Gap stores in the U.S. over the next 14.5 months, bringing the total number of stores to only 700 by the end of 2013. More »
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Campus Cops Catch Bike Thieves With "Bait Bikes"
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2011 3:00 PM
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With a high concentration of bicycles and larges crowds to hide in, campuses and universities have been a favorite target for bike thieves. Sometimes they take just one, sometimes a crew comes and cleans out a whole rack. Now campus police at the University of Minnesota are fighting back with "bait bikes." More »
Security Vulnerability Exposes HTC Smartphone Users' Info
By Phil Villarreal on October 3, 2011 10:15 AM
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HTC makes some powerful Android smartphones, but owners will have to replace their smug senses of superiority with worries about their personal data. A security vulnerability in recent updates to several HTC phones, including the Evo 3D and Thunderbolt, includes logging tools that potentially allow outsiders to get a hold of GPS, encoded text message data, email addresses and other info for those who use the phones. More »
