A security industry blog warned on Friday of a potentially “massive” data breach affecting as many as 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.
via Visa, MasterCard Suffered ‘Massive’ Data Breach | Moneyland | TIME.com.
A security industry blog warned on Friday of a potentially “massive” data breach affecting as many as 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.
via Visa, MasterCard Suffered ‘Massive’ Data Breach | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Best Buy, the company that dominates consumer-electronics retailing in the U.S., isn’t doing so well at the moment. As CNET’s Larry Dignan writes, it reported a $1.7 billion loss for its fourth quarter, and is responding with a …
Certain people who dislike Apple products still reflexively refer to people who do like them as mindless, Kool-Aid-guzzling cultists. They’re entitled to their opinion. But the whole notion of the average Apple fan being a nutty …
Some people really like stats. For those people, Google has rolled out a new Account Activity feature.
You can get monthly reports about your own Google usage, including how many e-mails you’ve sent, how many you’ve received, …
Now that even Barack Obama has a Pinterest profile, it’s safe to say the site is getting pretty popular. Where the people go, so too do the spammers — one of which actually sat down with the Daily Dot to talk about his …
If you’re hoping to get better customer service by posting questions to a retailer’s Facebook page, be prepared for disappointment, according to a survey released today. Major retailers including J. Crew, Victoria’s Secret …
An 83-year-old woman named Evelyn Paswall is suing Apple for $1 million after she walked into a Long Island Apple Store’s glass wall and broke her nose.
Paswall claims that she didn’t realize that she
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Trouble in Nerdville! Thanks to Apple’s most recent software update, some AT&T iPhone 4S owners are now noticing new “4G” icons where the “3G” icons on their handsets once lived. So does that mean the iPhone 4S has a 4G …
By some account, there has been an especially sharp rise in online shopping during the first couple of months in 2012—a time period that just so happens to coincide with an unusual spike in gas prices.
via Gas Prices: Are They Boosting Online Shopping? | Moneyland | TIME.com.
With so much concern over privacy in the digital world, it’s worth noting how the careful disclosure of consumer data might actually help.
via Data Mining Could Help You Save Money, Make Smarter Financial Choices | Moneyland …
Prepaid debit card providers like to make the argument that their products can be used just like bank accounts, but there’s one major way in which prepaid debit differs from bank-issued cards tied to an account or line of …