Tag: WARRANTY

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has earned a dubious place in video game history. Thanks to problems like the infamous Red Ring of Death (RROD), some are calling Microsoft's console the most 'unreliable' ever. Games Beat reports that a study by Square Trade shows that 23.7-percent of Xbox 360s malfunction within the first two years of use. In comparison, the study shows that about 10-percent of Sony ...

By now, you've probably thought about harming, or at least threatening, a telemarketer, the bane of the evening hours. Fortunately, we're here to warn you that it might be a bad idea. Just ask Charles Papenfus. Or rather, ask him if you could get a hold of him. Currently he is being held in a Fostoria, Ohio jail for making a "terrorist threat," reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The so-called ...

Even in our ever-accelerating, technologically turbulent world, we can count on some things to remain the same. Baby boomers, the generation that virtually invented short-lived trends, experienced another one with Facebook. After joining in droves last year, they started dropping from it like flies this spring. At the other end of the generational spectrum, teenagers continue to do really dumb ...

Burning question: Should I pay extra for an extended warranty? The short answer: No. The much-longer answer: Probably not, though it depends on what you buy, what the plan covers, and how techie you are. We do recommend warranties for theft-and-loss-prone handheld devices like cell phones, but it's likely that your laptop, TV or cell phone won't bite the dust in that narrow span of time ...

Finally, a third party has confirmed what many have been saying for a while: Xbox 360 failure rates are much higher than the three to five percent Microsoft claims. Though not quite as high as the 30 percent some retailers have suggested, the 16 percent failure rate reported by SquareTrade is way beyond an acceptable rate. SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider, covering products ...

You've just spilled your afternoon coffee all over your laptop. What you do in the next couple of seconds could be the difference between a speedy recovery and the laptop graveyard. In the above video, you'll find the emergency rescue steps you need to take right this moment. Next >> 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer Now Related Links: How to Save a Wet Cell Phone A ...

We love gadgets. But there's one thing seriously wrong with most of them: they break. To boot, you're typically stuck with two choices to get them fixed -- you can either upgrade to a product's newer version or send it off to the manufacturer for repairs that will likely set you back nearly as much as the thing cost you in the first place. But there is a third choice, and the Consumerist has ...

If there's one thing the British know less about caring for than their teeth, it's their cell phones. A recent study by SimplySwitch.com, a U.K.-based comparison site for mobile plans, found that out of the 4.5 million cell phones Britons lose or damage each year, 885,000 meet a watery death by getting dropped in the toilet. That's £342 million, or roughly $679 million U.S. dollars, flushed ...