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  • January 7th, 2013

    500 Startups-Backed Silver Living Wants To Be The Consumer Reports For Senior Care Communities

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    When his grandmother was no longer able to live safely at home, Tal Ziv and his relatives set out to help her find the best senior care facility — better known as assisted living communities. It’s an experience many families face at some point, and it’s not always an easy one. What’s more, the stakes are high; we want loved ones to be at home in a great environment, but there’s also the fact that… → Read More

    March 20th, 2012

    Consumer Reports Recommends New iPad As Your Next Home Grill

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    Attention George Foreman: report to an Apple Store near you immediately. There’s a hot (literally) product, you simply must buy the entire inventory of to keep your grilling empire alive: the new iPad.

    Or at least, that’s what the latest nonsense from Consumer Reports would have you believe.

    We’ve seen this ridiculousness from Consumer Reports before. In June 2010, at the height of… → Read More

    July 12th, 2010

    Consumer Reports Slams The iPhone 4 Over Antenna Issue

    Apple might have some amazing marketing for the iPhone 4 and it thinks that it can sweep the phone’s antenna reception issues under the rug, but Consumer Reports isn’t buying it. And it is recommending that consumers don’t buy the phone either.

    After testing three different phones by its own engineers in its “radio frequency isolation chamber” (it sounds like something out of the 1950s, and the… → Read More

    March 11th, 2010

    Consumer Reports says Apple has the best tech support, Acer/Gateway/eMachines the worst

    Consumer Reports has a new report on which computer company has the best tech support. Apple wins! That’s what happens when the same company controls the hardware as well as the operating system (and several of the most prominent pieces of software). The highest ranking PC manufacturer is Dell for desktops and Lenovo for laptops. → Read More

    December 16th, 2008

    Consumer Reports' Top 5 Smartphones list mentions neither the iPhone 3G nor G1

    Say hello to the worst list you’ll read all day. It’s Consumer Reports’ idea of the Top 5 Smartphones, and I think you’ll agree that it misses the mark. There’s the Samsung Blackjack II, the T-Mobile Wing, the Motorola Q9C, the T-Mobile Shadow and the BlackBerry Pearl Flip. I’m not lying when I say that I’ve heard of, at most, like two of those phones, and… → Read More

    December 1st, 2008

    WinMo easier to use than iPhone? Consumer Reports says yes

    Listen up, people. Consumer Reports is a great publication if you’re in the market for a toaster or AA batteries. In the interest of self-disclosure, I plan to read the hell out of their reviews when I’m shopping around for my next steam iron. → Read More