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Credit-card extended warranties come in handy

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/091210/

By Dennis O'Reilly

Most experts recommend against paying for an extended warranty when you purchase a PC or peripheral, partly because you may already be covered beyond the vendor's standard warranty period.

If you used a credit card to buy the system, your card company's extended warranty could be the key to a free repair or replacement.

In his Dec. 3 In… Continue

Posted by Sam Diaz @ 11:38 am
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28039&tag=nl.e019

Google is taking control of the Internet’s equivalent of the telephone switchboard, called the Domain Name System, or DNS. In a blog post this morning, Google announced the release of a public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, one of the things that the company is doing as part of its ongoing effort to make the web faster.

As Google explains i… Continue

ARTICLE DATE: 07.07.09
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D242030,00.asp

By John C. Dvorak

The glory days of Microsoft ended with Vista for one reason, and one reason only: Vista Ultimate. It was part of an ill-advised scheme called "subtractive marketing" or "fake versioning"—purposely taking features out of a finished product to create an artificial range or selection.

Who ever dreamed up the Vista Ultimate moniker, I consider that individual responsible for the decline of Micr… Continue

June 24, 2009 4:59 PM PDT
by Elinor Mills
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10272457-83.html?tag=nl.e703

Updated June 25 at 9:00 a.m. PDT with Trend Micro saying the Trojan is harmful to Macs and PCs.

Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki got more than he bargained for from an automated feed he set up on his Twitter account.

Some of Kawasaki's more than 139,000 Twitter followers noticed something strange when they saw a particular non-VC-related tweet sent from his account on Tuesday.

The update ad… Continue

The iPhone may have begun the smartphone's transition into a full-fledged computer, but lots needs to change before we get there. Here's my wish list.

06.15.09
by John C. Dvorak
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348745,00.asp

As the world begins to adjust to the mobile phone as a computing platform, we have to recognize the fact that for many people the device is bound to become the complete substitute for all computing needs. But not quite in the form we see it. I've written about this id… Continue