Unlocked iPhone 4 now available in the U.S.

Unlocked iPhone 4s are now on sale in the U.S. in both black and white. The device is nearly the same as its predecessor.

After offering an unlocked version of the iPhone overseas for some time, Apple has finally begun selling an unlocked version of the GSM iPhone 4 in the U.S.Rumors had been building [...]

Is this the checkpoint of the future?

Five Places Where the Bubble May Burst

Bubbles are a beautiful thing to watch while they’re inflating or floating along, but they can be extremely messy when they burst.
The U.S. still hasn’t recovered from the real estate bubble that burst in 2007. Considering the somewhat tenuous state of the second coming of tech spending, the bubbling costs of college [...]

Why is America the ‘no-vacation nation’?

Thinking of getting away? You probably have much less vacation than workers in other parts of the world.

Let’s be blunt: If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work.Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks [...]

Jerry Lewis Retiring from MDA Telethon

Jerry Lewis is retiring after 45 years as host of the annual Muscular Dystrophy Assn. Labor Day weekend telethon.
This after the organization’s announcement in October it planned to shorten and reformat the charity broadcast.
“It’s time for an all-new telethon era,” Lewis said in MDA’s announcement Monday.
This column suggested that the way MDA glossed over Lewis, [...]

David Wilkerson Killed in Car Crash

This undated photo from World Challenge Inc. shows founder Rev. David Wilkerson, who died in a car accident on April 27. 2011
David Wilkerson, founder of World Challenge Ministries, was killed Wednesday in a car accident in East Texas.
Charisma News spoke with Dr. Wayde Goodall, founder of WorldWide Family, who first verified the news. Goodall [...]

Rising costs overshadow McDonald’s earnings; price hikes on horizon

Coming soon to McDonald’s: frozen strawberry lemonade, a new smoothie and higher prices.
In reporting that its first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, the Oak Brook-based hamburger chain revealed it expects to further raise prices this year, on top of a 1 percent March increase, the first such boost since late 2009.
Although the [...]