Next time your credit card company raises interest rates, or imposes an annual fee, or cuts back on your rewards program, or suddenly charges you for your “free” debit card and checking account…blame Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd. They were the key sponsors of laws passed this year that promised to “protect”...
As part of its investigation into privacy issues on the Internet, the Wall Street Journal recently disclosed that many of the most popular iPhone and Android applications are secretly spying on you. These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. WSJ...
Each year thousands of free (there is always a catch or at least an advertisement involved) programs are produced for your PC. The highly respected Gizmodo site saved you the trouble to select the 16 most popular programs to help you tweak, customize, and enhance your Windows experience. See which ones will work for...
At the close of 2010, I’m going through my blog archives for the year and selecting my favorites to post from the archive. I love this little story. It’s an antidote to false hope while keeping us open to possibility. In The Stuff of Thought, Harvard psychologist and author extraordinaire, Steven Pinker relates the story...
