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Nothing quite like a four- or five-figure phone bill to break your spirit, and in many circumstances, we can understand why your first reaction after opening such a bill might be “I’ll sue the pants off of these people.” Of course, contracts are pretty well ironclad thanks to the generations of overpaid lawyers that have [...]

Verizon told George Vaccaro that bandwidth charges in Canada were .002 cents per kilobyte, but billed him at .002 dollars, or 100 times as much as he was quoted.

Popular online video web site Hulu has gained major traction in the past year, thanks in part to integration with popular, cutting edge apps like Boxee. As of Friday, Hulu on Boxee (and TV.com) is no more.

Facebook’s new terms of service caused quite a stir this weekend, prompting many to drop their Facebook accounts altogether. Too hooked on Facebook to cut it off completely? It’s time you learned more about your privacy settings.

boxee just launched an iPhone remote app that turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a boxee remote. Among other things it makes text input much easier, since you can use the iPhone’s full QWERTY keyboard. If you are a boxee user and have an iPhone you should give it a try.

The economy stinks for you, but it really stinks for providers of services that can easily be scaled back-like cell phone providers. On the one hand, they may fight harder to keep you paying for data plans, text messages, and other “value added” items, but they really, truly don’t want to lose you as a [...]

Oh, Android – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways; I love that you’ve essentially eliminated the need to hypothesize what might be coming in future firmware updates as, due to your open source nature, it’s put out there for all to see. I love that.. well, there are other reasons, but [...]

Ain’t this a kick in the head… My guess is some poor programmer intern will be working this New Year’s eve. 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once. This from Microsoft on the Zune.net site: Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware.  We’re aware of the problem and are [...]

While a power-on password and encrypted drive in your laptop could protect your data in the event of theft, it doesn’t come close to the satisfaction you’d feel at being able to locate and prosecute the bastage who stole it.

Only a few days after the launch of its new task manager, Gmail has introduced a new feature allowing users to send free SMS messages through its integrated Chat. To activate the feature, visit the Gmail Labs page and scroll down until you see the appropriate listing (you may also want to activate a few of the [...]