Archive for the 'Financial' Category
Word is out on Slashdot that the US Department of Justice has hired Sanford Litvack, formerly of Disney to get out his legal swimwear and get ready for a possible anti-trust suit against Google.
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Internet, Opinion, Privacy, news | No Comments
Concerned about “Identity theft”? Maybe you should be if you’ve got one of those new credit cards that has an RFID chip in it. If so, here’s a video you should watch.
September 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Electronics, Financial, Opinion, Privacy, Tech, video | No Comments
If somebody had told me about it I don’t know if I would have believed them very easily. I admit that I don’t know a whole lot about insurance but I do know that it’s a huge, monstrously big business so the idea of a non profit HMO was something of a surprise to me.
August 13th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Website Review, Websites | 2 Comments
In today’s world debt has become the monster on the backs of many people. It’s actually become commonplace for people to be so far in debt that they end up losing not only their homes, but just about everything else of value that they own as well.
August 11th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Websites | Comments Off
doPDF is a freeware app that installs itself as a virtual printer. This printer doesn’t use paper, instead it’s output is in PDF form. This lets you turn any printable document into a pdf file just by selecting the doPDF printer.
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Freeware, software | 3 Comments
A while back, EBay announced that they were going to switch to a system that would ONLY accept Paypal for payment. They then started to implement this in Australia to kinda try out the idea and find out how users businesses and the government would feel about it.
July 10th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion | Comments Off
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I had a disaster today. I was minding my own business getting organized for some things I was planning to write when all of a sudden with no warning at all my monitor went dark. [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Business, Computers, Financial, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Websites, blogs, news | Comments Off
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I think nearly everyone has either heard of Lifelock by now or at least seen one of their commercials where the CEO is publishing his social security number because he’s so confident that the Lifelock service can protect him from identity theft.
Lifelock was recently nominated For a Webby award in the [...]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc | Comments Off
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That’s right. Micro$oft is now showing how desperate they are in their war with Google.
They’re actually paying people to search in the form of a “cashback service” that gives users discounts of from 2% to 30% on products purchased as a result of doing the search through it’s “Live Search” [...]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion | Comments Off
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off