A school district in Philadelphia has found itself in hot water after it was discovered that laptops given to students for learning purposes also provided administrators with remote access to the embedded webcams, enabling teachers to spy on them and their families in their homes.  Robbins v. Lower Merion School District asserts that 1,800 students [...]

Featured Blog of the Week by Gary Shipman In emotionally charged testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday, Toyota USA President Jim Lentz confirmed that the “runaway car” problems have still not been fixed, despite Toyota spending millions in  television and newspaper ads stating that they have.  In responding to questions from [...]

As the digital world turns it has become difficult to ignore how useful smartphones (such as the iPhone or BlackBerry) have become for creating efficiencies in the workplace.  Busy businessmen and women are spending less time tied to the computer by leveraging this technology to handle their essential e-mail and web browsing needs.  Smartphones have [...]

Last week, Honda announced that the auto manufacturer will be expanding its recall to include over 430,000 vehicles worldwide.  The expansion is a result of concern for airbag inflators in the vehicles, with the company’s website stating that they may use too much air pressure during expansion, resulting in possible injury or death to the [...]

As of October 1, 2009, NC placed a ban on all rigid plastics entering landfills. Rigid plastics consist of bottles with necks smaller than the body, including PET plastic bottles (polyethylene terephthalate, code 1). Motor oil containers are the only exception to this ban. Preliminary reports show that drops-offs at the New Hanover county recycling [...]

North Carolina regulators are seeking to evaluate whether the state’s current system for the distribution and sale of alcohol is in need of serious reform.  Governor Beverly Perdue’s Budget Reform and Accountability Commission will begin exploring issues which played a role in creating a salary scandal in New Hanover’s ABC board among others.  Questions and [...]

As was predicted in my blog yesterday, recall number three is officially underway for Toyota. This time the recall was for the brakes not properly working on the Toyota’s Hybrid, Prius and Lexus, resulting in an additional 437,000 vehicles that are affected.   Now that all of Toyota’s recently surfaced issues have been recognized and are [...]

When it rains it pours and Toyota seems to be drowning because of it. It is reported that sometime this week Toyota will likely announce plans to recall more than 300,000 third-generation Prius hybrids to fix a break problem. The Toyota Prius is tagged as the “most efficient hybrid” and has been since it was [...]

Toyota has recently been one of the top stories on news stations all over the country, keeping consumers up to date on the recall and how to handle it.  Repairs on the sticking accelerator pedal are in progress today, but Toyota has a long road ahead of them. Locally, there is an estimated 3,000 Toyota [...]