Just like with their phones, tablets and bing, they should have learned there isn't much demand for a 3rd or 4th place product. People who like Chrome will stick with it, people who like Firefox will stick with it. They may get a few people who switch from IE to this, but many of them will just keep using the newest version of IE. In the end, I won't use it or put it on any of our workplace computers. Any browser by microsoft will be tied to closely to the operating system, keeping the doorway unlocked for viruses.

Companies like verizon think bandwidth is scarce and charge crazy overage fees if you even think of going over. I can't even math that well, but seems with 100% saturation, you would use up a 4gb data plan, use another 121gb in overages in 1 second. At their current rate of 15$ per gb, that first 1 second would costs you little over $1800.

I want a basic car, with user replaceable parts. Not an all in one system that will not be supported after 2 years. Thats why so many people have little 80$ gps units stuck on their dash even though their car has gps. Either it doesn't work and to repair it would cost 800$, it needs a map update and the dealer wants $250 for a 3 year old map set or its useability is so bad the owners do not want to mess with it. European cars are terrible at useability, they say some bmw's and audi's take 7 steps to go from changing the heater setting to get back to the radio menu to change the preset to another station. I want separate heater controls, with knobs and buttons and not goto 2 menus and a submenu on a touchscreen. I also want a radio unit, standard din sizing, easily replaceable.

Pretty much. Our kids just listen to songs off youtube all the time on their phones, don't really care if they actually have the song stored on their device or just stream it. Kids now a days have a hard time telling the difference between local and cloud storage and playing or streaming. But youtube does not have HD audio, even their HD sized video streams still have a very low audio bandwidth, about the same audio bitrate as a typical itunes song. And the small mobile sized video streams have pretty low audio quality. But then again most people don't care. What was the joke a few years ago; $250,000 recording session, $100,000 mixing, $70,000 mastering session to a 99 cent song played though $4.99 earbuds grabbed at the market next to the gum and candy.

In Seattle they have patrol cars parked around the city with special license plate reader equipment than scan and record all passing cars. They say its only for finding stolen cars and wanted felons. But when asked by news media how long they keep these records, they said forever. They don't see a reason why they should not keep a database where a person drives and how often. http://seattletimes.com/html/l...

Wife bought a car, xm called upto 4 time per day trying to get us to subscribe once the free trial ran out. We flat out said we are not interested stop calling and 15 minutes later they would call back.

That was my first thought as well. Why buy one when you can get a nice pc for 1/3 the price. My second thought was oops, I bought a Mac, maybe I can find something to do with it.

Yes, that one.Get the cube, who has the cube, protect the cube.

For years companies have been getting billions in incentives to provide high speed access to rural areas, they often just pocked the money and then go ask for more.
We live in one of those areas, no cable service (tv or internet), no dsl, only dial up(yes they still exist), satellite or 4G wireless. We have had both satellite and 4G, both are very expensive for the bandwidth you get and both have small limits or expensive overages. Satellite worse point is the lag, no vonage or skyping (its gets very confusing with a 2 second delay) and its its raining somewhat hard you loose service until it clears up. Also peak time slowdowns were horrible, in early evenings speed would droop down to 10-20k per second, hardly better than dial-up. 4G wireless is fast enough but you can burn though your monthly limit in just days, forcing you to keep raising your plan each week to avoid overages.

Yes, this would actually be of Zero use to us. We live in a rural area and are stuck with vierzon lte @home, tiny bandwidth limits or super expensive overages. No netflix, hulu, amazon streaming and hardly any youtube. Paying $100 a month for internet we cant use sucks.

then get a lower rate ? Ive read espn is the most expensive basic channel to carry, I havent watched it for years (ever ?) along with 80% of the other channels.

It all depends on how its made. Some cars, you pull out 1 or 2 pins and the assembly pulls out, a 10 second job. And yes, some cars you have to pull a battery, bumper, grill. inter fender cover or use a tiny socket on a 2 ft extension trying to get a bolt out you cant see.

But my grandfathers radio's and tv's didnt use surface mount IC's with 20-80+ contacts on a chip. To put a jumper wire over a burned out trace or replace a burned resistor or capacitor isnt that hard and Ive done it many times. But when my motherboard dies, I order a new one.

This story fails to say anything about her hardware, what OS she was using, what browser she typically used or any antivirus software that was running. The title of How My Mom Got Hacked isnt really a good title for this story. More like My Mom Got A Virus.
First, was she using IE ? That probably accounts for a 75% chance of how her machine got infected in the first place. Just running firefox or chrome with an ad blocker plugin will filter out a majority of the malware scripts and sites. Then since its not tied into the OS there is less chance of anything being able to get in to cuase damage. Then keep flash and java updated, if its installed.

Tablets are handy, great for playing games that would be to small on your phone. Great for kids to watch movies on (i have a 32gb card with about 40 movies in the 10 year olds tablet). Good for a coffee stand that has 10 menu items and a credit card swiper plugged into it. But for real work (involving typing, connecting to other devices) they just dont seem to do it well. You can get a flipopen bluetooth keyboard case but then you have 2 seperate devices with 2 different connectors to charge. My wife school gave her an ipod to use for work, besides watching netflix on it, it never get used. A regular $350 laptop works much better.