To be specific uninstall Java. I did on my wife's mac, and she is yet to miss it. There is always the sandboxed java built into chrome if needed.

One argument is that this is simply a market choice, A) a free and open market that is easy to upload malware, or B) a closed market that is difficult to upload malware.

Perhaps, but I believe you can have both. If a third party was able to find this malware in the market, why can't Google? Google simply needs to make this a priority, and do a better job. Scanning and making sense of the data really is their core strength.

That does not pass the sniff test.

I am sure Apple would love all iPhones unlocked, eliminating the primary reason for jailbreaking. It would also keep old devices in service, giving Apple more "credit cards on file", and active on the iTunes store. In fact I could see Apple requiring unlocking to keep selling iPhones.

Locking the devices makes it more difficult for the very popular iPhone to work on competitors networks.

I have no insider knowledge, but locking iPhones only benefits AT&T.

I have that "Odd Uncle" that swears the crash at Area 51 many years ago was an atomic aircraft in development, and the pilots were wearing anti-radiation suits.

Does any technology help children learn? The answer is always, it depends on how you use it.

In countries where they have been forced into longer warranties, they simply raised their prices, essentially including the additional warranty in the base price.

We need to simply make the subsidy transparent, so the consumer sees exactly what it cost, interest, how much is left, and receives a lower bill once it is paid off.

- Require carriers to show the subsidy and interest on the bill

- Require the bill to drop by the amount of the subsidy once the device is paid off.

- Require carriers to unlock devices for a small fee once paid off.

- Require a small contract termination fee ($25?), plus the cost of the unpaid device to cancel any contract.

- Require carriers to use devices brought to them, as long as they will operate correctly on their network.

- Require carriers to sell the phone outright to anyone for what they sell to customers (to keep them from cheating on price).

Put the consumers back in control.

Just tell me where I can find a decent 17" laptop with at least 1920x1200 display under $1200? I have been repairing an old Dell for years now with ebay parts because I have not found a suitable replacement. Sad that my phone and tablet may soon pass my laptop in dpi.

They failed to produce compelling digital products. It really is that simple. Kodak had an early lead on the consumer space based on brand alone, much later than most would have imagined, especially among female buyers. The software bundled with the cameras was equally bad.

There is not a single quality "feature phone" on the market, so simply purchase a quality smartphone and disable the cellular data in settings. We purchased my mum an htz Radar for exactly the same purpose. She uses no cellular data but does browse the web when in wifi range, and T-Mobile has not complained yet.

Sprint's Dan Hesse said the iPhone is so data-efficient, it will help Sprint keep its mobile data plans unlimited. He claims they do not ping the network near as much, and are better at handing off data to wireless networks. http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/10/26/sprint-ceo-iphone-will-help-us-keep-unlimited-data-plans/ Assuming that was a comparison to Android?

HP makes great hardware on the large format printer segment (24", 36" + rolls). I know of one engineering firm that switched brands specifically because HP drivers were so bad they got tired of jumping through hoops to get what they wanted on paper.

For example tell a KIP to print a 24" x 36" page, and you get one. Exactly. Tell HP to do the same and you will likely get something 1/4" off in both directions. That forced them to pull tricks like printing barely visible lines at the right place in the margin to fool the printer. One of their offices gave up and made huge margins on all of their pages.

It became much easier to just switch brands and not fight the driver, even though they likely had best of class hardware.

The release products before they are complete. It would help if they waited until products were ready for prime time before releasing them.

My wife has a factory unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile. They are the only discount carrier with coverage nationwide, especially outside of metro areas (getting away from Verizon's dropped calls at our home was very welcome).

AT&T and Verizon either outright block, or charge not so discount rates, for iPhones on their prepaid branches. T-Mobile actively encourages them on prepaid talk / text / data plans that start at $50.

If this merger goes through, she might have to switch to a windows phone 7 device. At least she is free to sell it and switch at any time.

We need healthy competition to Intel, to keep pushing tech forward and prices down. Sadly AMD simply has not performed over the last year or two, with no real answers to Intel's I series.