Filed under: iPhone, Mobile Phones It's hard to call two incidents of some occurrence around the world a trend, but, when those incidents both involve an electrical device catching fire spontaneously, it creates a situation that's hard to ignore -- especially when that device is the iPhone. On Satur...

It's hard to call two incidents of some occurrence around the world a trend, but, when those incidents both involve an electrical device catching fire spontaneously, it creates a situation that's hard to ignore -- especially when that device is the iPhone. On Saturday, Italian blogger Tim Colbourne ...

I’ve noted many times that the NFL Combine is the most overrated event in sports when it comes to gauging talent, yet every year I get caught up in what a guy runs or what a guy jumps or what a guy throws (combine studs that probably went a bit high: JaMarcus Russell, Donte Stallworth, and jus...

Yep, we're all gonna get squeezed for accessories again as the member companies of the GSM Association begin standarizing on micro-USB chargers, and while we're happy that the madness is over, we can't help but feel the decision to use micro-USB over the already-ubiquitous mini-USB was purely greed-...

The major cell phone manufacturers (Apple excluded) have agreed to adopt a universal microUSB charger for cell phones by 2012. And I think I speak for all of us when I say I say, "it's about freaking time!" And also, "can you hear me now?" *slamming balls in dictionary* Jla`#@82[wa;g@!h.!! I deserve...

It’s about damn time. The GSM Association, promoter of the most ubiquitous communications standard in the world, is pushing GSM operators and manufacturers to adopt a universal phone charger by 2012. Even better this new standard relies on microUSB, reports Gearfuse, conceivably allowing suppo...

Personally, I must have a dozen chargers from cellphones of Christmas past. I hate throwing them away, even though I’ve yet to find them useful for anything else. So it was with great delight that I heard about attempts to establish — finally — an international standard for cellpho...

Is this magpie secretly working for inter-dimensional trinket bandits? The public must know! Image via Wikipedia Don’t you sometimes wish you could get a return ticket to the land of lost things, to retrieve all those crazy bits and pieces you’ve lost down the years? You either put them ...

Andy Reid is certainly built to survive in cold weather, but unfortunately his Eagles couldn’t make the same claim. Days before the Arizona Cardinals nearly applied a death blow to Steeler Nation, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in conjunction with Coors Light (for when you feel like having a p...

i noticed it a few months ago but now it's just worse. she thinks she owns the place. sweetie, i've been there LONGER than you. stop trying to pull shit off like you've been there years and everyone loves you. faaaack i don't get it. um.. we had a snowday today. i'm really hoping for at least a dela...