Maybe you've got a nice new ultra-zoom camera and you're just dying to try it out. Maybe you're an aspiring (or actual) celebrity photographer aiming to turn a few bucks by exploiting people's privacy. Well, don't mess with Roman Abramovich: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming pools and six-foot movie screens in all guest...

If you've used online photo services such as AOL Pictures, Sony's ImageStation and countless other smaller-named sites, you're no doubt familiar with the problem of data loss and data migration. These sites held your data (your photos) and when they went under, they had to remove it from their servers. Giving your data back to you in the form of disks and high-res downloads would have cost these services money - which they didn't have, of course, because they were bankrupt. And so, in some cases, you were confronted with the most perverse outcome imaginable: paying for your pictures! This is...

If there's one thing consumer electronics companies thrive on, it's taking a relatively straightforward technology and cleverly hyping it. Case in point: so-called "LED TV." TV makers such as Samsung have begun using the term, leaving you with the impression that you now have to decide between LCD, plasma and LED TV. But you don't. LED TVs are actually LCD TVs that use an LED back light, instead of a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) for back lighting. So there really is no such thing as an “LED TV.” It’s really an LCD TV with LED backlights. What’s the Big...

In the United States, wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless control which devices and what pieces of software can access their networks. It's a strange business model if you think about it - a lot like having your Internet Service Provider telling you what kind of computer or notebook you can buy and what software you can load on it. It also leads to stuff like this: The terms in AT&T’s exclusive US contract to provide connections for Apple’s iPhone give the telecommunications giant the power to veto online store applications that use AT&T to launch cheap calls through the...