I was recently invited to join a group for HP regarding the future generations of laptops. They want myself, among others, to share our "ideas, designs, thoughts or rants." This is really a great idea, and in a way reminds me of Dell launching the IdeaStorm site.

I haven’t actually owned a HP laptop in over 5 years, and I’ve gone through more computers

There’s so much talk these days of ways that we can “go green” and how everybody can make a difference. Apparently AT&T hasn’t put any effort into ways that they can go green to save the Earth and save money at the same time. iPhone bills have gone out and they are massive! We’re talkin’ 52 double-sided pages, or a total of 104 printed pages. Talk about a waste of paper!

Cell phone bills have always seemed difficult

Google has taken yet another stab at Microsoft in hopes of luring users away from Microsoft Office. Now Google is offering StarOffice 8, which normally costs $79, as an optional download in the free Google Pack.

What surprises me the most is that Google chose to use StarOffice over the free OpenOffice. Of course I’m not

There are a few sites around the web reporting that Best Buy is charging a “Halo Tax” by adding $3 to the price of most Xbox 360 accessories that you can buy. The fact of the matter is, Best Buy really isn’t upping their prices just for the launch of Halo 3 (and the people who will presumably run out to purchase an Xbox 360 console and accessories). In general, they often charge more than the

Windows Vista SP1 was known to be in the hands of testers just a few weeks ago, and much like XP SP3 it has been leaked in full form on the file sharing networks. Microsoft was actually pretty smart by making the general public cringe at the idea of installing a leaked copy of Vista SP1. Why? They only

“But everybody is doing it” appears to be one of the popular excuses that children are using in Europe and elsewhere when asked why they are illegally downloading music and movies, according to a recent study. And when they say “everybody,” often times they mean their parents too. So while these kids understand that they could get in trouble, they brush off simply by using the popular

Pretty soon Firefox 3 is going to be feature complete, and all that will be left for them to do is fine-tune the things they have implemented. As we build up to that big moment there are some new features that are coming out of the shop for testers. This includes a spruced up download manager, resizable toolbar items, a plugin manager, and better looking menus.

So let’s go ahead and take a look at all