Articles on Issues

You can now verify who you are following on Twitter - Jun 12, 2009

Blogs At least for the celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and public agencies you are following. Twitter just launched its verified accounts program and one glance at the terms of service ... Read story »

Google shows us the way to explain outages - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Check this out: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html Google explains in detail how Gmail died for about a hundred minutes. Patiently. My favorite excerpts: "We had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, ... Read story »

New iMacs' Flash video performance woes - Nov 2, 2009

Crave After reading Engadget's report citing recent complaints about Flash video playback mucking up system resources on the latest 27-inch Apple iMacs, we decided to test out the claims using our ... Read story »

Apple releases OS 3.1.2 for iPhones - Oct 9, 2009

Crave Apple has rolled out yet another update for the iPhone--version 3.1.2. The 241.7MB patch can be downloaded from iTunes and is compatible with all three flavors of iPhone, iPhone 3G and ... Read story »

Palm Pre hacks into iTunes again - Oct 6, 2009

Crave Palm was warned very recently by the industry body that regulates the use of USB connections that it was not allowed to trick computers into thinking its products were made by ... Read story »

Cameras with gimmicky features: Yay or nay? - Nov 3, 2009

Crave The ST550 and the Coolpix S1000pj. At a dinner last week, I was showing off the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj to some friends who were quite impressed with the onboard projector ... Read story »

Nokia rolls out charger exchange program - Nov 9, 2009

Crave The Finnish mobile giant today issued a press statement on a potential issue with selected phone chargers and has initiated an exchange program to replace the faulty component. According to ... Read story »

PlayStation Network compromised! - Mar 28, 2008

Crave Heads up, people! If you're a member of Sony's PSN online gaming community, its high time you verify the integrity of your existing account. The Japanese company has recently issued an ... Read story »

My take--should bloggers have to reveal ties with brands? - Nov 15, 2009

Blogs In this issue of Media, I had a chance to share views together with three others on whether bloggers have to reveal their ties with brands. Click the image for a ... Read story »

Seven days to Hopenhagen--our hope for reduced CO2 emissions - Nov 30, 2009

Blogs It's seven more days to Hopenhagen, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Do you know what to expect? Leaders of 192 countries will be meeting to discuss what commitment ... Read story »

New PS3 controller rumbles on - Sep 20, 2007

Crave Imagine combining the force feedback capability of the Xbox 360's controller with those of Wii's motion sensors. That's no longer a pipe dream with Sony officially announcing its new PS3 controller. ... Read story »

Acer recalls its ultrathin laptops - Oct 21, 2009

Crave It seems the Taiwanese PC maker is having a little troube with its thin-and-light machines. The following models manufactured before September 15, 2009, have an issue in which the microphone cable ... Read story »

Low-tech problems for high-tech gear - Nov 20, 2009

Crave The following is a true story. Sam (not her real name) has been using an iPhone 3GS for two months. Since buying it, she's been plagued by poor voice quality--people she ... Read story »

Don't expose your Apple machine to second-hand smoke... or else - Nov 24, 2009

Crave Here's one for the books. We've all encountered cases where the vendor would refuse to honor the warranty by claiming wear-and-tear or water damage. But this is the first time we've ... Read story »

Epson Stylus Pro 3880 gets Vivid magenta, tackles metamerism issue - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Epson is replacing its Stylus Pro 3800 medium format (17 x 22-inch) printer with the 3880, rolling its latest set of technologies down the product line from the Stylus Pro ... Read story »

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