The iPad is not playing nice with the DHCP protocol: if the screen is turned off, it doesn’t release its IP address when it’s supposed to. This leads to address conflicts when the DHCP server gives…
Officials from 10 countries have asked Google to consider a list of privacy principles before launching new products, not afterwards like it did with Buzz and Street View. Google may not be the only…
In the course of three months during 2009, South Korea’s average Internet connection speed dropped by a dramatic 24 percent. Think about the magnitude of the decline here: one of the world’s most…
For the first time since the annual poll began in 2005, America’s influence in the world is now seen as more positive than negative. The improved scores for the US coincided with Barack Obama…
What a major rip off scam with Boingo Wireless…. I travel a lot and have had a Boingo unlimited wireless account for ages. On a recent trip to
Boingo Wireless Complaints: Scam. Internet Services
Devastating quake.
Ripped off by Boingo? Take a look.
An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper.
Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. They made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical…
Annoying, yet hilarious.
The Consumerist highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism - and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies. We also encourage our readers to tell us about their…
The Consumerist highlights the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals, and freebies.
…then they don’t want government doing it either.
Chomsky is just old enough to have actual memories of the early Nazi era — the stemwinding oratory of Adolf Hitler and tumultuous responses he got from the citizens…
News sites took to Twitter following the meteor’s descent, asking residents for their pics of the natural phenomenon.
Tea Partiers = ignorant racists. …watch.
The Consumerist highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism - and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies. We also encourage our readers to tell us about their…
