Well, I can’t say I didn’t see this one coming. Chapel Hill, North Carolina puts their note in the tech history books as the first town in the US to completely ban the use of a phone while driving; this includes both hands and hands-free methods. If you’re caught doing it, the fine is $25. There are, of course, exceptions to the law. If...

When will Windows 8 ship? The answer is October 2012 according to this source. Will I be getting it? On my PC, probably not, but on a tablet, probably yes. Windows 8 boasts 300+ new features, but a huge amount of them are tablet and touch-related. That’s not necessarily a problem, but it doesn’t give me any solid reason to go with Win8 on my PC...

Most of you probably already know by now that despite the fact that the iPad 2 hasn’t even reached the end of its life cycle, Apple’s planning on adding another iteration to their product line. Due on March 16, the product which Apple’s dubbed “the new iPad.” Some journalists feel that the name’s something of a misnomer...

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Apple announced the iPad 3 – or as they’re calling it, the “new iPad” – on Wednesday. The summary is that it has a retina display, 4G support, and some more graphics horsepower (which it would need in order to pump all those pixels). Now, like a lot of geeks, I was paying attention to things as...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently released their Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights, so I gave it a read. While I applaud EFF for going ahead and putting that document together, there are certain parts that are good and some that simply won’t work at all; the "rights" that I don’t believe will work will be the ones I concentrate...

Cell phones even with light use get beat up easily, and over time they get all scratched up. And these days more people are electing to stay with their old phones instead of upgrading to a new one every 1 to 2 years. It’s not that a new phone costs that much, and in some instances upgrades are free; people just get sick and tired and having to learn a new...

I was pretty much dragged into texting kicking and screaming all the way. For years I refused to use it until smartphones got cheap and prepaid options presented what I considered to be a fair deal. Ultimately, what finally got me to use texting regularly was the right phone (as in one with a touchscreen, even if a cheap model) and a prepaid provider (Tracfone)...

Hey you. Yeah, you. The one with the Smartphone. I’ve got news for you. Your data’s not as safe as you’d like to think it is. Believe it or not, as mobile becomes more and more important to society, the ne’erdowells and net crooks are turning their attention to Smartphones and Tablets. Plenty of malware exists out there that’s...

Some good news from the FCC – they just put into effect tighter rules against telemarketing and spam texts. The rules basically state that written permission (which means on paper or electronic) is now required before reaching out to bothering people with prerecorded or direct sales calls. My question to you, the reader, is this: Do you receive junk calls...

The first question most of you would have after reading the title of this article is, "Why would I even want a used cell phone when new ones are cheap or free (with certain wireless post-paid contracts)?" That’s a good question, and I have a good answer in two parts. 1. Battery life has not improved, and in fact has become worse with many newer...