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Dick Smith NZ Giving Away Free HDTVs? Not So Fast

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10:30AM July 11, 2011 | Danny Allen

Oops. Twitter was on fire this morning with reports that Dick Smith’s New Zealand online store was only asking for delivery costs on any purchase, making big ticket items like TVs and laptops next to free. As you’d expect, the web swarmed, and the Techxperts responded: sorry, no freebies for you. Updated! More »


Mobile

The New York Post Now Blocks Mobile Safari Vistors From Accessing Their Web Site

1:00AM June 20, 2011 | Jack Loftus

“You shall not pass!” booms Gandalf the Grey as mobile Safari visitors arrive at the New York Post web site this weekend. Sorry, correction: That’s how it played out in my head. Reality is more mundane and mostly annoying. More »


Online

Why Was Nearly Every Yahoo Search Suddenly Resulting in Porn?

1:18PM December 15, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Uh oh! Something very odd and naughty is going on over at Yahoo right now. Any searches which result in thumbnails will wind up showing you an unrelated and rather pornographic image. More »


Gaming

Your Marriage Will Destroy Your Television

3:00PM November 26, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

You didn’t misread that headline. Your marriage—and wearing a loose-fitting wedding ring while playing Kinect—can destroy your television. More »


Online

Google Tool May Have Wrong Polling Place Locations

12:00PM November 3, 2010 | E.B. Boyd - FastCompany

Google’s polling place locator was supposed to make your life easier by guiding you to the appropriate polling place so that you can vote. The only trouble? It may have guided hundreds of thousands to the wrong place. More »


Computing

Some New MacBook Air Owners Reporting Possible Logic Board Issues

8:39AM November 3, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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This isn’t anything we experienced in our reviews of the new 13-inch and 11-inch MacBook Airs, but Cult of Mac notes that some users are reporting video distortion and crashing issues – that sound logic board-related – in larger than normal numbers. More »


Mobile

iOS 4.1 Security Flaw Puts Your iPhone’s Information At Risk

11:40AM October 26, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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No, you’re not reading an old story. There really is yet another serious iOS security flaw which allows someone to access information on your supposedly password-protected iPhone. More »


Mobile

Latest Sprint Update Finally Fixes Samsung Moment 911 Bug

9:36AM October 23, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Happy news for Samsung Moment users: Sprint is pushing through an update which will fix the “911 call restrictions after modem crash related to aeroplane mode and data lockup”. Basically this means that now your phone shouldn’t prevent you from making calls after you toggle its Wi-Fi off. [MobileCrunch]


Cameras

What Happens When A Baseball Bat Hits A Very Expensive Camera

1:20PM October 21, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

We’ve seen what happened when a golf ball gently bounced off a camera lens, but what happens when a baseball bat is violently flung toward a very expensive camera? And more importantly: What happens to the guy holding the gear? More »


Online

Nasty Phrases Slipping Into Official White House Website’s CAPTCHA

9:40AM October 9, 2010 | Wilson Rothman - MSNBC

A man visited the official White House website to send a message to President Obama. At the bottom of a form he was asked, as part of the automated verify-you’re-a-human process, to type two squiggly words. The words? “Rape Baracks”. More »