HP Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Fire Hazard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Lithium-Ion batteries used in Hewlett-Packard and Compaq [...]
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Acer America reports to CPSC that burn hazard and overheating prompt about 215 units of Acer Predator Desktop computer recall. Acer desktop safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the Acer America in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the recalled desktop immediately unless otherwise instructed. The recall includes about 215 units of Acer [...]
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Dell and HP balk at replacing bad Nvidia chip By Michael Lasky An old urban myth claims that the microprocessors used in PCs and other consumer electronics are designed to fail within days or weeks of their warranty expiration. For tens of thousands of people who bought Dell and HP notebooks whose motherboards fried — [...]
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Have you ever been speaking with someone and they describe what’s going on their computer but you’re just not understanding what they’re saying, or they’re running a program and have a question about something but can’t really express in words what they need? There’s a great program that I use that allows me, with the [...]
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Spam, Yuck. Well, okay, that Spam too. However, the spam that affects us daily is worse. Some stats from this past year from Symantec: Top Trends in 2008 Spam: In 2008 the annual average spam rate was 81.2 percent, meaning a little over 81% of all email sent/received in 2008 was spam. An increasing proportion [...]
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From the OCRegister Gadgetress If you’re about to dump your old iPod, cell phone or other electronic device anyway, you might as well get some money for it, right? RadioShack now offers an electronics trade-in program, which swaps store gift cards for your old e-junk. A lot of this stuff we shouldn’t be dumping into the trash [...]
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Microsoft introduced the concept of Patch Tuesday a few years ago. The idea is that security patches are accumulated over a period of one month, and then dispatched all at once on the second Tuesday of the month. Windows Update is a service that provides updates for the operating system and its installed components. Microsoft [...]
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An FYI if you use the free AVG antivirus software: a recent update of AVG’s antivirus software caused some user’s Internet connections to be blocked. AVG’s support page indicates that after upgrading to AVG version 8.0.196, your network link may fail. If rebooting your PC doesn’t fix the problem, follow the instructions on AVG’s support [...]
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