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I love collecting these. They get more creative all the time. The latest I’ve seen comes from a guy who calls himself Hassan Mohammed and he has a very creative sob story with the message title “Kindly Fulfill My Last Wish.”
He claims he’s from Dubai, in the U.A.E., (though he uses a French e-mail address) […]

The move to get high speed mobile data networks running across the country is set to accelerate again this week with an expanded system by another cell phone company. Sprint Nextel to Launch High-Speed Network.

I’ve written a lot about lousy customer service from some tech companies.
How about an example of how companies should respond when things aren’t up to snuff?
It’s from Six Apart, the blogging company behind the Movable Type and Live Journal blogging platform and TypePad, which I use for this blog. Recently, access time has been slow. […]

The U.S. Census Bureau is so laughably inefficient that its big study on Internet use dates to 2003 as most current. The stats are so out of date that they are meaningless, like ancient history in the world of technology. Internet Use Up.
The Census Bureau is exhibit one when it comes to a dead wood […]

In an attempt to capitalize on Halloween, Microsoft and a coalition of consumer groups have gotten together to warn consumers about online fraud done through malicious programs that secretly install code on a computer, turning it into a so-called zombie machine controlled by hackers.
Computer criminals often use zombie computers to launch spam e-mail attacks that […]

The despots who run the UN and the wannabes from the European Union are in a power grab to wrest control of the Internet from the U.S. Hands off the Internet.

Readers are sendlng me lots of links and tips on how they’ve been able to get non-Apple provided video on their iPods.
While they insist it’s all quite easy, my initial read of the instructions for the tools they suggest has convinced me that it’s way, way too cumbersome for average users.
One free download that several […]

Comcast calls it Digital Voice and is rolling it out across the country in major markets like suburban Detroit, which gets it today. By year’s end, it will be in 20 markets and serve 15 million homes. MIKE WENDLAND: Comcast customers can now use Internet for calls.
Cost is $39.95 a month for unlimited local and […]

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I’ve spent much of the day running a new 30GB Video iPod through the paces. I’ll have a full review next week but here’s some quick impressions:

It comes in a typically slick and sleek Apple box, with the CD, instruction book, soft case, earbuds, USB2 cable, earbud covers and the […]

Computer manufacturers say convertibles that switch from a foldover slate-like screen to a traditional laptop are expected to greatly increase the use of Tablet PCs over the next few years. Convertibles: The new laptop bling?.

If you use a cell phone - and about 65% of us do - then you need to know about a super cool new service from Google that lets you get near instant info on all sorts of stuff by punching in a special number. My NBC-TV High Tech Talk feature this week shows you […]

Here’s my review of that ultra small Motion LS800 Tablet PCthat I blogged about last week when it caught the approving attention of Bill Gates. MIKE WENDLAND: Microsoft has a winner with Tablet PC operating system.

The one area where computers haven’t seen big improvements is in the time it takes for them to power up. Good for Intel, which has found a way to make it almost immediate. Intel slashes laptop power-up times..

The feedback from readers in the Broadband Reports forums about the FBI raid on Michigan spammer Alan Ralsky seems to be…. about time! Spam Overlord shut down.

According to the CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center), a federally funded organization based at Carnegie Mellon University, an estimated 80% of all network security problems are caused by easy-to-guess passwords.Pick smarter passwords.