November 09, 2011
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Technology: Protect Yourself From Cell Phone Hackers
Cell phone hacking caused the downfall of The News of the World, Britain’s largest and most famous tabloid. This scandal has alerted cell phone users to the mayhem that hackers can create. An ever-increasing problem for the telecommunications industry, cell phone hacking no longer happens only to people in the public eye. More and more […]
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Social Security Benefits Increase Along With Medicare Costs
About 55 million seniors receiving Social Security benefits and 8 million recipients of Supplemental Security Income will enjoy a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment increase beginning with their January 2012 monthly checks. This is the first COLA increase since January 2009. With declining consumer prices in the aftermath of The Great Recession, there were no increases […]
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Stock Market: Sentiment and Reality
Shakespeare’s Hamlet observed that nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. He certainly wasn’t talking about the stock market, but his commentary fits the market’s dizzying ups and downs some 450 years later. How else can we explain a market that ended the third week of October showing an 11 percent bounceback […]
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Is Your Business Something to Blog About?
Blogging has permeated cyberspace. More than 160 million blogs worldwide host everything from personal ramblings and political musings to highly technical how-tos, financial planning and investment advice. Most blogs (short for weblogs) are about hobbies or other personal topics, but recent years have seen an explosion of business blogs developed by companies seeking customers and […]
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Some Unexpected ‘Gifts’ Come With a High Price
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth” is one of those old adages that many of us grew up with. Sometimes, though, even the wisest among us might want to stop and think before accepting a gift with blind trust. One such example is an unexpected check from a taxing authority. Before computers made […]
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