Consumers who complain through social media may see more of a response than through traditional means. Get tips on how to most effectively voice your complaint and get it resolved.
Want to figure out how to get more-efficient energy usage from your household light bulbs? Care to track your driving skills and see how to be more fuel efficient? There’s an app not just for that, but for all things green. The Apple App Store and the Android Market list many apps to conserve energy and [...]
In the past four months, caches of customer e-mail addresses, not banking and credit card information, have become the key target of data thieves. The goal: Use the legitimate e-mail addresses and the specific companies their owners have business relationships with to get people to buy worthless goods or to infect their PCs. The recent [...]
Want to go where the jobs are? Check out New York’s tech industry. The city’s second annual NYC Startup Job Fair, held Friday, drew a packed-to-capacity crowd of both job seekers and those looking to hire them. It was so jammed that the organizers turned away 80 startups looking to attend and recruit. “This is the [...]
There have been repeated attempts to make old-fashioned plastic credit cards “smart” by putting computer chips on them. Smart to whom? Even chip-enabled cards can’t tell consumers what the interest rate is on purchases, or when next month’s bill is due. But how smart would credit cards be if they could actually communicate with card [...]
It won’t be long before our cars “talk” to each other, keeping tabs on everything around us and alerting us to threats we aren’t aware of. Several automakers are developing these nanny cars, and the government is seeking ideas to advance the technology. Ford has shown the technology works, rolling out a crash-avoidance system that [...]
Facebook is giving app developers access to some of the most sensitive personal data it possess: Members’ addresses and phone numbers. The company slipped the change in quietly, announcing it late last week in a post on its developer blog. Facebook members will need to explicitly grant permission for apps to tap into their contact [...]
The issue of the health of Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs has come up again, an issue that investors and its fans don’t want to think about. This time, Apple (AAPL 348.48, +2.80, +0.81%) gets some kudos for telling investors, employees, customers and everyone else who obsesses over the company, that Jobs is taking [...]
Social media addicts, brace yourselves. Cyber criminals will be targeting you on Twitter and smartphones in greater numbers this year, security experts say. Expect the attacks to come hidden in those shortened URLs of random letters often used on Twitter, according to a report from McAfee Labs. It’s not a new method, but it will [...]
Recharging smartphones, digital music players and other personal electronics cordlessly will be as easy as dropping them onto the console of a car under a deal being announced today by General Motors. But GM (GM) might have a bigger goal in sight. The deal with Powermat offers the possibility that someday soon electric cars could [...]
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