By Sam Costello For small, expensive, often-dropped devices like cell phones, insurance is becoming an increasingly common add-on purchase. After all, if you spent $300-$400 on a phone, what’s another $50 to ensure that it will keep working for the life of you cell phone contract? Not from Apple or AT&T That thinking – and fear of needing to extend cell phone contracts to get new phones... 

By Kevin Ho I’ve settled into a comfort, perhaps even complacency, with the iPhone of late. I used to be a worrier about not being contactable. When I used to travel I used to fret about not having my laptop along. Now I could care less; I still have access to my email, news and AIM/Gtalk via the iPhone. In fact, my laptop’s power supply has been broken and I am only now getting around... 

By Sam Costello For small, expensive, often-dropped devices like cell phones, insurance is becoming an increasingly common add-on purchase. After all, if you spent $300-$400 on a phone, what’s another $50 to ensure that it will keep working for the life of you cell phone contract? Not from Apple or AT&T That thinking – and fear of needing to extend cell phone contracts to get new phones...