Homeland Security can take your laptop (or iPod) at the border and copy all your files

It’s the perfect solution for an office or a computer user that just wants to clean up a bit.

Dell, the personal computer giant was slapped in mid-May with a lawsuit from the state of New York for “engaging in bait and switch financing tactics and failing to provide their customers with adequate customer service.”
The lawsuit, filed by New York State Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo, accuses Dell and its money arm, Dell Financial [...]

Dear EarthTalk: As an online gamer, I spend a lot of time in front of my computer. What’s the environmental impact? And are “greener” PCs available?  – Bob Grant, Burlington, Vt.
Online gamers and other heavy computer users are definitely leaving an environmental mark. Depending on when it was made and how it was designed, a [...]

It’s Friday afternoon. It’s been a long week. Here’s one of those email forwards that was too hilarious to ignore.
After going through a virus attack,

losing a hard drive,
fighting off hackers,
upgrading all my software,
installing fire-walls,
being threatened with being cut-off by my email provider,
and a host of other problems…
I have fixed my [...]