SIM card readers aren’t that new, however, SIM card readers that can also get the deleted data off of the SIM are. Basically you’ll be able to read deleted texts, numbers, contacts, all sorts of stuff as long as it hasn’t been written over by a new file.
Best Buy, notoriously one of the worst companies as far as handling data and hardware, is at it again. This time they didn’t steal the porn off of the notebook, they just lost it, the whole notebook, gone. So I, like Ms. Campbell, am curious as to how a company like Best Buy can just lose a laptop from a “Secure” area?
The lady bought the notebook a while back for $1100, got the extended warranty, and then started using it. As occasionally happens, something went wrong so she took it in for repair in May. Slowly but surely over the course of the summer they continued to blow her off, not wanting to tell her that they had lost her notebook.
On a more serious note, this thing does connect your landline/phone to your PC allowing your computer to record who called and when and even record the actual phone call. So you can get your Patriot Act on and do some wiretapping of your own.
At the risk of sounding quite strange to some, I admit that I have a small collection of swords, mostly katana replicas. I have been tempted in the past to add replicas of famous gaming swords to my collection. Most noteably would be the Master Sword from Zelda, and both Cloud and Sephiroth’s blades from Final Fantasy VII. I saw all three of these when I was at GenCon Indy last year, and while the Master Sword was of questionable quality, the FF VII blades were excellent replicas. Somehow I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that their maker is a part of Sqare Enix’s latest lawsuit.
The video game industry sees its fair share of legal disputes, most of which seem to be spearheaded by the infamous Jack Thompson. I can think of few that blew up quite as big as the whole “Hot Coffee” fiasco from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I’ll spare you the details, because if you haven’t already heard about it, you’ve likely been living in a cave f or the last few years and have better things to do than read about having video game sex. Apparently the class-action lawsuit has finally come to a close, and you might just get some money out of it.
We recently saw a chain of news about a Korean man that was killed by an LG cellphone; after police investigation, it turns out that he was actually murdered by his friend that apparently also the first witness of the event. LG reaffirmed the public that its battery is safe and did not cause this tragedy. The media are quick in picking the incident’s story and putting LG phone battery as the main suspect. I guess bad news spread way faster than good news.
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Now I know this isn’t all that pertinent to consumer technology, but it does represent the state of things in today’s web-based world. You can now, not only fill out the necessary forms through a series of questions, but you can also file them online.
It will cost you an extra $20 to file them online, which is why they give you option to print the completed forms out at the end of it all, but that’s all it takes. The grand total due when you file online is $364.
Hot Coffee. Those two words are enough to give people like Jack Thompson nightmares. I’m not sure that there’s anyone out there that don’t know what I’m talking about. Well, Rockstar, the same guys that happened to produce the game with the Hot Coffee mod are in some hot water over their latest title Manhunt 2.
Remember way back in May (I know, I’ve slept since then too) when our sister site had to change its name from MYiPhone to MYiTablet? This was prompted by a brief meeting our own Vincent had with Steve Jobs where he was told to change the name because Apple has “a team of lawyers to go after that kind of stuff.” We tried to warn the other sites using the iPhone name to get out while the getting was good. Those of you that didn’t heed our warning are likely sweating bullets today.
SanDisk is well-known for their flash memory. Any electronics store you walk into is going to carry their flash drives. They won’t be the only ones you see though, there will be up to a couple of dozen products from other manufacturers on the shelves as well. Take a good look at the competition there, as SanDisk is suing each and every one of them.
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