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Beware Video Professor – A Costly Scam

Video Professor is major scams instead of one of the social gaming mobile scmas which look to get a relatively small $10 – $20/month subscription on your mobile bill and hope you never notice. They go for the big kill: $190 – $290 charged to your credit card on time. What you see when you first hit the site depends on how you got there – directly or via an advertising partner. The least scammy version is what you see if you go to videoprofessor.com directly. On the home page in very small fon...

Digg Them Deals

Image via CrunchBase One of my favorite sites on the web has reinvented itself with a new portal at deals.woot.com - Deals.Woot is run by its users and is essentially a Digg for bargains. The new site features a list of top deals, as voted on by the community and chosen by the Deals.Woot algorithm. I cant wait for the first deal-off! Check it out at deals.woot.com

Iphone Worm Released Just In Time For Holidays

Image by powerbooktrance via Flickr A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared, spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven’t changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely “rickrolling” users; i.e., changing the background image on the device to an image of Rick Astley. Now, according to early reports of strange activity by Dutch ISP XS4ALL, and later confi...

Good Stuff Great Deal Geekin Car Care Products

Image by RichSPK via Flickr If your serious about your care care and want to have it nice and clean for the holidays then check out the exceptional values at http://www.autogeek.net/specialvalues.html. Good stuff for taking care of your car and some great prices on some quality products. This isnt a paid endorsement but passing along some good values. Related articles by Zemanta Risky Old Car-Care Products: How To Identify, Dispose Of Them (blogs.thecarconnection.com)

Beware Web Coupons

Carful the next time your purchasing something and see a  coupon offer appeared urging you to click for $10 off your next purchase. That one mouse click could send credit card information from a reputable Internet retailer to another company billing your card monthly for a useless "membership club". Members of Congress are now considering legislation that would crack down on what they call the unethical, aggressive sales tactics of some Internet marketing companies. Millions of Americans a...

Pirate Bay Final Gaps

Image via Wikipedia The Pirate Bay lost their court case couldn't sell and relocation attempts failed, so theyLast have shut down. In other news: A tech and gadget retailer has registered their pirate ship logo as a trademark and will be marketing USB flash/thumb drives under the Pirate Bay banner after discovering the logo was never trademarked, former Pirate Bay staffers claim the image is owned by the public and may seek legal recourse. Related articles by Zemanta Iconic Pirate B...

Get a $99 Wii

Image by foreversouls via Flickr The holidays bargains have started EARLY and you dont have to even wait in line. Toys “R” Us is running a deal this coming weekend where you can pick up a Wii system and a Ready for Play Wii Pack for $249. The package deal brings the cost of the Wii hardware to a mere $99 with the Ready for Play pack. The Ready for Play pack includes a 20-pack of AA batteries, a copy of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics game, an Ultimate Gaming Ottoman, and your ...

Legal Ways To Get Windows 7 CHEAP

Image by techedlive via Flickr Here are 3 ways to save as much as 58% off the regular cost of a Windows 7 upgrade. BUY SMART!!! Up to 55% off: Windows Anytime Upgrade Expires: Never ! Who’s eligible: Anyone running Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, or Professional If you custom-build a new PC, you can choose the exact Windows 7 edition you want on it. OEMs get the best pricing, so this is usually your best option. A preconfigured PC from an online or local retailer...

Target Rumored To Offer Insane Deals

Image via WikipediaThree Dollar kitchen small appliances, $250 Westinghouse 32" LCD tv and $179 GPS from Garmin are all rumored to be up for grabs at Target on Black Friday. Brad Olson from of Gottadeal.com has received a copy of the Targets ad for the day after Thanksgiving sales extravaganza. For competitive reasons, most merchants typically keep a tight lid on their promotions for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, until a week before. The word on the street is that the deals ...

Snapnames Admits Scamming

Image via CrunchBaseA class action lawsuit was filed on the 10th of november in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court on behalf of lead Plaintiff Carlos A. Cueto and others who participated in online auctions for domain names. In the lawsuit, Mr. Cueto alleges that an executive of the company conducting the auctions acted as a shill bidder to manipulate bids. The domain names were auctioned online by Oversee.Net, Inc. subsidiary SnapNames.Com, Inc. According to the class action complaint, a former ...