Travel gear: Use a universal charger like the Travel Insider’s

Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:

My favorite e-mail newsletter for travel news (besides Budget Travel‘s very own newsletters, which you should sign up for if you haven’t already), is David Rowell’s The Travel Insider. I like it because he always speaks from the heart and because he is an especially insightful advocate for passengers facing awful customer service. Plus, he has a running series called “This Week’s Security Horror Story,” which is always worth a read.

iPhone: How to get hit with a $5,000 bill without making a phone call

Brad Tuttle recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:

A woman buys an iPhone, goes to Europe, and unknowingly amasses a $500 bill after four days overseas. By the time she reaches AT&T, the total is around $5,000.