It’s Christmas Eve, and unless you are out shopping, you have only one choice left for a last-minute gift — an email gift card. E-gifting is a new tradition that’s growing every year, and once again, Christmas Eve is expected to be the busiest day of the year for digital gift [Keep reading]
AHHHH!!! It’s that time of year again when you are probably panicking over that one person who haven’t quite figured out yet. Figured out what gift to buy, I mean. Well, I’m here to the rescue, thanks to my brilliant friend Katie Freeman (she’s the one hugging the books. And [Keep reading]
Elle Adkins has lived in Oklahoma City all her adult life, so she has a different perspective on the once-sleepy, dusty capital city that’s become a boomtown. “It used to be dreadful, and now we have all this new and exciting stuff,” she said. Credit.com recently wrote about the top 10 most affordable [Keep reading]
ARCHIVE, MAY 31, 2013 — Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there will be sun, Little Orphan Annie sang. Recent neuroeconomics research suggests she was onto something. The key to saving money for the future might not be self-discipline, but rather the ability to imagine that tomorrow, indeed, is coming. [Keep reading]
Consumers around the world trust data storage company Seagate to keep their information safe, but the firm this week apparently allowed one of its website security certificates to lapse. The expiration means some Seagate backup functions currently don’t work. It also calls into question the firm’s business practices, according to [Keep reading]
If you make money charging people for TV access, here’s the latest set of scary numbers. A new Pew Research Center report has found that one out of five young adults between 18 and 29 say they have “severed the ties they once had with cable or satellite service.” They’ve [Keep reading]
A short-term, high-cost lender that tried to collect debts by in-person visits at borrowers’ homes and workplaces has ceased dealing in payday loans, and about 200,000 consumers will get refunds or debt collection relief, federal regulators said Wednesday. Austin-based EZCORP is accused of potentially revealing details about consumers’ debts to third parties during [Keep reading]
As one of the first journalists to write about the identity theft phenomenon more than a decade ago, people often ask me if I think LifeLock is worth it. I’ve never been a fan of the company, which began its uneasy existence with a brazen advertising campaign that included plastering the founder’s [Keep reading]
While Comcast moves ahead with its plan to add cell-phone-like data usage fees to home Internet service, consumers like Kimberly Richardson are feeling the pain. And if you are a heavy user and part of Comcast’s new fee trial, expect your bills to go up in January. Richardson, who lives [Keep reading]
Ever since I started writing the Red Tape Chronicles, people (mostly journalists) have complained that I cover two very different topics: tech gone bad and consumer ripoffs. I’ll admit it: I don’t care. Often enough, these subjects overlap. You don’t care if a hacker is stealing your money or a [Keep reading]
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