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Is your iPod likely to catch fire in your purse or your pants? What's the deal with Net Neutrality... is it good for consumers, or should the FCC keep its nose out of the Internet? And will playing the new Halo 3 ODST trigger flashbacks to a kinder, gentler time when Pong was king?
Many users are reporting that after upgrading to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, their computer locks up or even crashes, under a variety of circumstances. Is removing IE8 the solution, or is there something else that can be done? 
Can you send a fax over a phone line that uses VOIP? The question is important to people who have VOIP phone service through their ISP, and for international faxers who pay dearly for traditional phone service to other countries. Many have switched to VoIP for voice calls, and would like to use VoIP for faxing too. 
You've enabled System Restore to automatically save snapshots of your Windows system, so that you can restore your system to a previous, working state if something goes wrong. But when you need to do a System Restore, it fails, and it leaves your system in its current, messed-up state. Several things can cause a System Restore to fail. 
A reader asks: "I'm a Sprint customer, and thinking about buying a new smartphone. The Palm Pre looks good, but how does it stack up to the iPhone?" Good question - can the Palm Pre break through the cult of coolness that surrounds the iPhone, and tempt consumers to give it a try? 
Several readers have asked me why they keep getting an error that says "To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program." It turns out Data Execution Prevention, a security feature that's supposed to protect you from malware, can sometimes prevent you from running programs that are NOT harmful. 
