If AT&T is your mobile service provider, you should probably check your bill regularly anyway. But this month it might be particularly important, because buried amid the actual taxes and other minor fees it has to collect, AT&T may just be trying to pull a fast one. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hey, remember Jennifer Lopez? J.Lo? Inexplicable film career? Even more inexplicable music career? Yeah, she’s now co-founder of a “premium” mobile store, Viva Movil, aimed squarely at Latinos. Read the rest of this entry »
Amid Apple’s offshore bank accounts and Facebook helping itself to half a billion dollars of your tax money, it’s nice to see a tech company not treating the government as a piggy bank. Like Tesla, for example, the electric car company that has just paid off a $465 million loan nearly a decade before it had to. Read the rest of this entry »
LoJack, in case you didn’t know, is the popular brand of anti-theft device for cars. But it also has been extending that brand to laptops, and now, phones. Although the selling point here is less “tracking your phone” and more “sending a large, scary man to get your phone back.” Read the rest of this entry »
Airbnb is a service largely popular among tourists, as well as the occasional prostitute, looking for a place to crash in New York City (and many other places as well) who don’t want to pay exorbitant rates to stay at a hotel. Unfortunately, New York courts have decided it’s better for you to stay in a motel on Long Island than in a stranger’s home. Read the rest of this entry »
Soon after Defense Distributed was forced to take down its 3D plans for a goofy, useless plastic gun some other guy — this time the anonymously named “Joe” — put up a video of his much better, but still awful, plastic gun made on a much cheaper 3D printer. And he called it the “Lulz Liberator.” There’s a name that inspires confidence. A lot of people are freaking out about these things. But they really shouldn’t be. Read the rest of this entry »
So today Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a Senate panel to talk about that whole tax thing people have been talking about, and Sen. John McCain, man of the people, asked Cook a question we’d all probably like to ask him.
“Why the hell do I have to keep updating apps on my iPhone all the time?”
Meanwhile, how great would it have been if Cook had replied by asking, “Why the hell did you pick Sarah Palin to be your running mate?!” Pretty great, I think!
We’d be outraged that Apple is trying to avoid paying its fair share of taxes, but the reality is, every corporation does this. It’s just that Apple is doing it on a scale Wall Street bros can only dream of, by, legally, being a company without a country. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember the Center for Copyright Information? If not, they’re the guys running the “six strikes” plan to prevent pirates from stealing content on the Internet. Well, that’s the idea, at any rate, the reality is apparently much different. But they’ve currently got a bigger problem than teenagers stealing Iron Man 3; the government just straight up revoked their status as a company. Read the rest of this entry »
