Tag: CONSUMER REPORTS

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Voyager 1 spacecraft has already traveled an astounding 14 billion miles since its 1977 launch, and the interstellar wanderer is now headed to the Kuiper Belt at the "'edge' of our solar system," more than 13 billion miles from home. [From: Popular Science] eBay has faced exorbitant lawsuits in the past, but XPRT Venture is ...

This probably won't come as too much of a shock to many of you (especially regular Switched readers), but according to a recent survey from Consumer Reports, 52-percent of adults post potentially risky information about themselves on social networks. The survey revealed that 42-percent posted their full birth date to Facebook and 51-percent post their e-mail address. Oddly these ...

Share Microsoft has been forced by the moral authority of Consumer Reports to censor an ad for its new line of Kin social-networking phones. The ad for Microsoft's Kin features a house party concert invaded by attractive hipsters who play with bubble bath foam, wear animal masks and spend more time photographing and talking about their experiences than actually experiencing anything. The ad ...

Well, it's no surprise to us here at Switched that, according to the annual Consumer Reports survey of readers, AT&T is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to customer satisfaction. The survey (subscription required) covered 50,000 readers in 26 cities and AT&T ranked dead-last in 19 of the 26 markets. While AT&T's issues with dropped calls, spotty coverage, and achingly slow ...

Sometimes it's the unsung workhorses that deserve the lion's share of the praise, and that might just be the case with the aging Samsung BlackJack II -- a phone that you probably wouldn't expect to top Consumer Reports' January 2009 ratings of popular smartphones. Sure, it may not be the shiniest device on the market these days, but you've got to admit it's just about as functional as you'd ever ...