Despite the hope that technology could soon bring voting out of the age of paper ballots, it hasn’t really materialized in 2012. For starters, email proved to be problematic yesterday as New Jersey voters found issues with systems put together after Hurricane Sandy. Buzzfeed reports Essex County voters attempting to request ballots using an official […]
Regular readers of The Consumerist may have seen its recent stories documenting complaints of excessive data usage on AT&T’s network with the new iPhone 5. The problem certainly isn’t a new one, but it’s difficult to pin down a definitive solution. Last month, Verizon customers with the iPhone 5 expressed the same complaints, and Verizon […]
Recent offers have circulated the internet for a free six-month or twelve-month trial of SiriusXM satellite radio’s streaming service. Normally, this service costs $14.49 per month or a $3.50 per month additional charge for subscribers of the company’s regular satellite radio programming. If one of your online buddies passes along one of these promotional codes, […]
Popular Apple rumor and discussion website MacRumors reveals that at least one Fortune 500 company is advising its employees not to upgrade their iOS devices to the latest version. The concern centers around a bug with Exchange calendar integration. A user who receives an invitation to a meeting and declines it winds up sending cancellation […]
Former front man of musical group Golden Silvers, Gwilym Gold, has something new in store for listeners on his debut solo album. Tender Metal features seven moody electronic pop music tracks that slowly evolve, each time one is played. Obviously, this is only made possible by distributing the music digitally for playback with special software, […]
Yesterday, Lexmark announced a 1,700 employee job cut and an end to manufacturing consumer inkjet printers, in a cost cutting and restructuring maneuver. The company plans on shutting down its inkjet supply manufacturing center in the Philippines by 2015 and an end to all inkjet development by next year. Lexmark chairman and CEO Paul Rooke […]
Somewhere between the standard desktop computer and notebook computers with large screens lies the all-in-one PC. While Apple is generally regarded as the king of this category with its iMac series of machines, HP had recent success building the TouchSmart line of all-in-ones designed for Windows Vista and subsequently Windows 7. The primary differentiating feature, […]
Having just finished reading David Pierce’s first impressions on using Windows 8, I’m compelled to write my own rebuttal. Like Mr. Pierce, I’m primarily a Mac user, though certainly also comfortable using Windows. I have no doubt I’ll install a copy of Windows 8 on at least one of my home computers when it’s released, […]
When Northeastern Washington D.C. resident Seth Horvitz placed his order on Amazon for a new flat panel television, the transaction misfired in a big way. Instead of finding his new TV waiting for him on his doorstep on Wednesday, Horvitz found a long, oddly shaped box that contained a Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic assault rifle! […]
Good news for Apple TV owners who feel like they’re not getting as much use out of their boxes as they’d like. Today, Apple TV rolls out Hulu Plus in a software update. Until now, the $99 set-top box from Apple allowed purchasing selected movies and television shows via iTunes or using the popular Netflix service, […]
