New Dell Smartphones Surprisingly Slick

Dell’s new foray into the smartphone market looks to be a hell of a lot more impressive than you’d expect from a company with a historically lousy industrial design sensibility and lack of software development experience. Information leaked to Engadget reveals that Dell is working on a handful of impressive-looking handsets.

There Go the Servers: Lightning's New Perils

It is summer storm season in Florida, and when lightning threatens, technicians at cable channel HSN fire up eight massive generators to ensure the home-shopping network won’t lose power. This time of year, HSN’s generators get switched on two or three times a day.

Steve, I've Got a Great Idea for Our Next iPod Silhouette Campaign …

The MP3 player that can put 1,000 songs in your pocket can also send 100 million or so volts through your head if you’re unlucky enough to be struck by lightning while wearing it. A letter published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine reports that a Vancouver jogger suffered serious injuries when he [...]

Steve, I’ve Got a Great Idea for Our Next iPod Silhouette Campaign …

The MP3 player that can put 1,000 songs in your pocket can also send 100 million or so volts through your head if you’re unlucky enough to be struck by lightning while wearing it. A letter published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine reports that a Vancouver jogger suffered serious injuries when he [...]