I had a similar thing happen. I sent in my Canon camera for repair, and when it cam back, it had photograph's of Canon's repair facility -- obviously the repairman was taking test shots, and forget to erase them from the memory card.

I hope AAA has improved its product. A number of years ago, I bought AAA'se mapping software. It was missing Hwy 10, a major highway in our part of Canada.

I have the opposite problem: commerical radio stations interfering with my music playback, even down aroudn 88.3 and 88.1

Many car attennas are now at the rear of the car, on the roof. With the MP3 player and FM transmittor in the front with the driver, that makes reception more difficult.

The FCC should simply mandate input jacks on car stereos. Problem solved.

Transend is the budget brand from Toshiba.

>We have no idea how they're measuring that claim

Why wouldn't you contact the company to find out?

For "speed," I suspect they mean GPS signal acquisition time. This is important in dense forests and skyscraper-filled downtowns, where the satillite signals get interrupted. Acquiring a new signal quickly means less downtime.

I could see Apple waiting for Microsoft to announce the Zune price and ship date, and then undercut with a lower price and sooner date.

There is a similar trick to getting into hotel room safes. I once checked into a room where the previous occupant had left the safe locked.

When the maintenance man arrived, he plugged a PocketPC into a socket under the safe's handle. I am guessing it reported the safe's user-set combination, which he then overrode.

My next business trip I'm taking a rental car. It's a five-hour drive, but I determined the drive (1) takes as long as the 1-hour flight, once all the airport-ralted time is included; and (2) is less hassle crossing the US-Canada border.

Free wireless in airports and access on the airplanes would make me switch back to flying. I don't mind waiting two hours in the airport if I can get in my Internet time.

Camera designers could build in a removable viewfinder that communicates with the camera using BlueTooth.

Not a new idea: My parents old tv had a pop-out remote. It was a regular remote, but you could slide it sideways into the tv, and then it would act as a regular tv control panel.

Early Logitech mice were just as rectangular. I still have the ClearCase Mouse, a rectangular block that Logitech released in the late 1980s.

I liked the old mice better for holding, because they were wider than today's mice, and so easier for me to hold.