Articles in the Featured Category
Beware Facebook/Twitter iPad Scam
March 4th, 2010
This latest scam takes the form of a Facebook app, which offers you and your network of friends the chance to get a free iPad as part of a research programme.
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Make Payments To Your Facebook Friends
March 3rd, 2010
A new app has been launched which allows you to make small payments to your Facebook friends.
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076 Phone Number Scam
March 2nd, 2010
The Guardian’s Technology blog has a warning about a new but far from sophisticated phone scam, which uses a special set of numbers reserved for radiopagers.
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First Direct Need These 5 Tips To Stop Twitter Hackers
March 2nd, 2010
First Direct recently became one of the more high profile Twitter users to have their accounts hacked, thanks to a phishing scam that was spreading by Direct Message last week.
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Mackems Love Comparison Sites
March 1st, 2010
Data from Hitwise suggests that “financial aggregators” – comparison sites such as Moneysupermarket.com, Confused.com and GoCompare – are most popular with people living in Sunderland.
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Kublax Dies… Again.
February 26th, 2010
Scrap what we said the other day about Kublax possibly being able to continue, an email sent to users today confirms they’ve gone out of business.
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Google Now Does Credit Card Comparisons
February 25th, 2010
Google has made its first official steps into the UK financial comparison market with the launch of a tool to compare credit card rates.
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Groupola: Group Buying Power
February 25th, 2010
A new deal website has launched aiming to give massive discounts on a range of items, provided enough people agree to take up the deal.
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Vouchercloud: iPhone Voucher App
February 23rd, 2010
Vouchercloud is one of the more impressive and slickest apps I’ve downloaded for my iPhone so far, as it solves a problem I normally find with discount vouchers – finding relevant, valid voucher codes is often a frustrating and time-wasting process.
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Is Your Bank Reading Your Facebook Updates?
February 22nd, 2010
There have been some interesting stories around in the last few days looking at whether your social networking could be used by insurers or banks to build a better profile of their customers and to use that info for either marketing, or more interestingly, to approve or disapprove you for …
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