If you’re shopping for one, USA Today offers information and advice for you to consider. First, you’ll want to see what’s available from your preferred carrier, says analyst Michael Gartenberg at researcher Interpret. Then decide what features are important – do you want a touch-screen? And prioritize what you’ll use the device for – e-mail, [...]
Bogus reviews have landed Chinese iPhone app developer Molinker in deep trouble, resulting in all 1000-plus of its apps being removed and banned from the App Store. This is great news for consumers who are tired of downloading subpar apps based on inflated reviews, and bad news for companies looking to shill their products with [...]
USA Today offers five useful ways to save money on all those tempting gifts this holiday season! 1. Have a plan. Stores and websites are cleverly designed to get you to spend more than you intended. So it’s important to know what you are going to get and spend before you get to the mall [...]
Despite the passage of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (“Credit CARD Act”), there are still fee traps out there waiting to snare you. 1) Banks Can Still Charge Whatever They Want There’s nothing in the law that caps interest rates or fees. There’s no reason to believe that these fee amounts won’t [...]
Right now Amazon is having a huge magazine sale with tons of mags under $5 and plenty of other that have an instant $10 kickback when you check out. $5 subscriptions through Dec. 12: Cosmo Seventeen Popular Mechanics SmartMoney Good Housekeeping Esquire House Beautiful Marie Claire Bazaar Town & Country Veranda Redbook Country Living $10 [...]
Toy safety regulators say one of the holiday season’s hottest toy crazes — Zhu Zhu Pets robotic hamsters — do not violate federal safety standards after all. A spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said the toy “is not out of compliance” with a new U.S. toy safety law that began taking effect [...]
AT&T has debuted an iPhone app that will let AT&T/iPhone users submit reports when they experience poor phone service. This will be a popular app. The new “AT&T Mark the Spot,” available via the iTunes store, lets customers inform AT&T when they suffer dropped calls, failed calls, no coverage, data failure, or poor voice quality. [...]
For the second time this year, a Fresno beef company is recalling thousands of pounds of ground beef contaminated with a drug-resistant strain of salmonella. Beef Packers Inc., owned by Cargill, announced the recall Friday. It covers 22,723 pounds of ground beef products that were sent to stores in Arizona and New Mexico. The Arizona [...]
There are a few things you should know about the consumer brain before you head out for your holiday shopping. Smartmoney.com cautions consumers with some valuable advice to take into consideration before you turn into a shopping machine. Look, but Don’t Try On Shopping for a new sweater? A new jacket? A new pair of [...]
If you’re shopping online this holiday season, beware: The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has just exposed a massive Web scam that has cost online shoppers more than $1.4 billion. The revelation is all the more shocking because the con was carried out with the knowledge and support of hundreds of [...]
