Electronics...
Below are our articles on the subject of Electronics. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'...
A Real iPod Or a Knock-Off?
Apple knew it was on to something when it introduced the iPod portable music player. It spawned a revolution, and since then many other makers have come out with...
Can Your Trust a Download?
Downloads are part of our daily computing lives. It could be a song, a film, software, or plug-ins – almost anything; we get so much from the Internet. We trust our...
Counterfeit Batteries Do Cause a Problem
Many people might not imagine that counterfeit batteries could cause problems. After all, what's the worst that can happen - they run out very...
Counterfeit Electrical Goods and Home Safety
Every room in every house is packed with electrical goods. We rely on them to know the time, for entertainment, to cook our food, for almost...
Counterfeit Video Games - Beware of the Fakes
The video game business has quite quickly become one of the most important segments of the entertainment market, and that means people will...
Fake Apple Items
In February 2011, counterfeit Apple items estimated to be worth $10 million (about £7 million) were seized from a warehouse in Los Angeles. Many of the products...
How the Software Industry is Fighting Counterfeits
As anyone who purchases it knows, software can be very expensive. If you need to buy an operating system for your computer, for instance, expect...
Information on Big Brand Fakes
It's all very well knowing that there are so many fakes out there, and having guidelines to help avoid them, like those on this site. But the fakers are constantly...
Pirated CDs - Is There A Problem?
According to estimates, a staggering one-third of all CDs sold in the world are pirated. That's a huge figure, and it means that the record labels, and even more...
Pirating E-books
The rise in the popularity of e-book readers has highlighted a new phenomenon – e-book piracy. It’s no different from the piracy of music, movies or software, since...
Spotting a Fake DVD
It has to be said that these days it can be very difficult to differentiate between a counterfeit DVD and the real thing. The manufacture of the items - mainly in...
Spotting Counterfeit Software
Counterfeit software is a huge problem. That's not only in Asia, where it often seems that most of the software on home computers is pirated, but everywhere in the...
The Trade in Fake Mobile Phones
Mobile phones are big business. In turn, that means fake mobile phones are bound to appear. As soon as there’s money to be made the counterfeiters will enter. The...
