Gizmogs

By Luke Anderson

In case you weren’t aware, any time that a retail employee tries to get you to upgrade to a “higher-quality” cable  for just about anything, they’re really just trying to rip you off. While there may be the slightest gain in signal quality, rarely is it ever worth it. Having worked at retail stores in the past, I can tell you that cables actually have the highest profit margin of almost anything else in the store, which is why they get pushed so much. Knowing that, you might look at these Free Angle HDMI cables from Panasonic and think that they do offer additional benefits.

A recent article by The Wall Street Journal reports that HP will soon release a new smartphone. It isn’t clear whether the new phone will be iPaq-branded; what’s clear is that the new phone will be sold in retail stores to consumers rather than just to corporate users like before.

With SK Telecom's Helio MVNO talking to Virgin Mobile over possible merger or buy-out deals, it seems an odd move to actually shutdown much of Helio's operations throughout the US.