iPhone 4 antenna woes prompt Apple to dump return fee

From InfoWorld: Apple has dropped the usual restocking fee for iPhone customers who want to return their smartphones, the company confirmed on Friday.

In a statement posted earlier today to its Web site that blamed reception problems on a flawed signal strength indicator, Apple said...

Lenovo Lucky Apple Not Focused on China, Says Exec

From PC World: Lenovo is "lucky" that Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't focused on the Chinese market, according to reported comments by Lenovo's chairman.

"We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the...

Blockbuster stock to be delisted from NYSE

From CNET News.com: Blockbuster's stock will no longer be available on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) starting next week, the company announced in a statement Thursday.

The issue, according to Blockbuster, started in November, when the NYSE contacted the company and informed it...

Report: Google issues fix for hacked YouTube

From CNET News.com: Google has plugged the hole hackers used Sunday morning to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet.

Hackers took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability that enabled them to insert code onto the...

Opera 10.6, The World's Fastest Stable Browser, Tested vs. IE 9

From DailyTech: With the wealth of browsers out there, it's hard to pick. There are, of course, five major competitors -- Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Apple's Safari. Some time ago we compared those browsers in a four part series [1]...

ITunes Users Accounts Hacked, Hundreds in App Purchases Tallied

From DailyTech: According to a story which TheNextWeb broke over the holiday weekend, hundreds, if not thousands of iTunes accounts have been hacked over the holiday weekend, and a variety of methods used to ring up hundreds of dollars in fraudulent iTunes app store and music charges...

Windows 8 to Have 3 R's: Recovery, Reset, Restore

From Tom's Hardware: We all know about "Windows rot," where the operating system slowly degenerates to a slow, sluggish state after numerous installs, uninstalls, and other things that a system accumulates over time.

Those of us who perform good housekeeping practices on our...

Corsair Dominates with 2.625GHz Memory Modules for Benchmarkers

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory on Thursday revealed memory modules that can be formally claimed to be the fastest in the industry. Thanks to hand-picked memory chips, advanced cooling and advanced cooling system, the Dominator GT GTX6 memory modules can achieve whopping 2.625GHz...

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