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There’s a new scam making the rounds on Facebook just in time for the New Year. This one claims to be giving away a $250 Kroger Gift card just for filling out a survey or performing some other innocent sounding task.
The problem is the folks behind the “giveaway” have no relation whatsoever to Kroger. They are actually just a bunch of scammers who are out to steal the personal information you provide when “signing up” for the “giveaway” for their own sinister purposes. [Read more…]
Have you seen the commercial featuring the guys from the show “Pawn Stars” telling a despondent “customer” that her Google Chromebook isn’t a real laptop? Well, there’s a reason why Microsoft is running that ad: They’re scared.
According to marketing research firm NPD Group, Chromebooks accounted for a whopping 21% of all laptops sold through commercial channels in 2013.
You were probably already aware that Windows-based PCs have lost a huge chunk of the computer market to tablets and smart phones, but the amazing success of the Chromebook probably surprises you just as much as it did me.
There are several reasons why Chromebooks are selling so well: [Read more…]
I have long been a huge fan of Amazon
According to the Washington Post, UPS underestimated the number of packages they’d need to deliver before Christmas, which caused many of them to not be delivered until the day after. [Read more…]
Target has announced that approximately 40 million customers who shopped at one of their brick and mortar retail stores between November 27 and December 15 have had their credit card or debit card information stolen during one of the most successful hacking attempts in history.
If you shopped at Target during that time frame and paid for your purchases with a credit or debit card, you are quite possibly one of the victims.
If you think this might apply to you, I recommend that you do the following ASAP: [Read more…]
On January 1, 2014 it will become illegal to manufacture incandescent light bulbs in the U.S. or import them from other countries. This means if you use either 40 watt or 60 watt incandescent bulbs you won’t be able to buy any more of them once current retailer inventories run out.
This is all due to the passage of a 2007 bill that set minimum energy efficiency standards for light bulbs.
While the law doesn’t actually outlaw incandescent bulbs directly, it sets the standard for energy efficiency for each class of bulb so low that it would be impossible to design and make an incandescent bulb that meets them – which of course effectively makes it illegal to make them. [Read more…]