ShareHow mad does this make you? It’s the digital equivalent of the street vendor saying “For you…..fifty dollars.”
Most American consumers don’t realize Internet merchants and even traditional retailers sometimes charge different prices to different customers for the same products, according to a new survey. The study, “Open to Exploitation,” found nearly two-thirds of adult Internet [...]

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ShareTalking on a cell phone is about as much fun as jamming a pack of cards against your head. The angle rarely works, the phone heats up, and those little headsets jumble up too much to be of use every call. So, what if you could have the solid comfort of a traditional phone handset, [...]

SharePC cultist that I am, I have to admit that I had my eye on a Mac Mini until I went to see one in a store and was shocked by how heavy and burning hot it was. Meanwhile, a little known company called AOpen is planning a PC version it has code-named Pandora. Read [...]

ShareWhy bother house hunting in a potentially crime-infested neighborhood when you can check online and research every assault and robbery at every address, thanks to Google maps and a little programming ingenuity. ChicagoCrime.org built this site to catalog every crime by date and type and location. Why knew that phone threats were so prevalent? Check [...]

ShareWhat my mother would have done for this product back when my sisters and I were young….sneaking ice cream was an art form we perfected: how to get enough out without making it look obvious. How to open the freezer and not make a sound. We were experts! Todays kids (and greedy sneaky roommates) [...]

ShareWho hasn’t dreamed of the Cone of Silence, especially in today’s land of cubicles and cellphones? In my office I can hear the guy next to me right down to his keyboard taps and sighs. Thanks to a new product called “Babble” the days of overheard conversations may be history.
“Two people in an office here [...]

ShareThis is the last thing I wanted to do a Project Notebook series on: but it just happened. I got a letter in the mail informing me that my credit info was stolen and that I should protect myself. I cannot tell you what a chill that sends through you.
Luckily, so far nothing has been [...]