Archive for June, 2007

How Badly Do You Want The Apple iPhone?

It’s amazing how much excitement a new gadget can create when it is marketed the right way. More than a few people are calling the iPhone marketing campaign one of the best in history.
I don’t plan on getting an iPhone any time soon. I just don’t need it since I don’t go out all that […]

Ohio "Loses It" Again

I guess state employees in Ohio are on a roll. It was recently discovered that in addition to the 225,000 Ohio taxpayers whose personal information is on a missing computer backup tape, a laptop computer was stolen from another state employee.
On the stolen laptop is the social security numbers and other personal information belonging to […]

Missing Backup Tape Holds Ohio Social Security Numbers

Every time I see one of these stories, I just think to myself, “You’ve got to be kidding me. Not again!”
It seems like these stories are popping up every few weeks these days and who knows about the ones we never hear about.
This time a missing computer backup tape in Ohio is the problem. The […]

Centerline Financial Group Accused of Loan Scams

This is appears to be a pretty wide-spread operation with people all over the U.S. reporting that they were scammed by an outfit that was known as “Centerline Financial Group” that claimed to be located in St. Louis.
Despite the claim that they were located in St. Louis, the people behind the operation were actually in […]

New Consumer-Oriented Site Launched

I have just launched a new web site that is focused entirely on consumer issues. Although I will still be posting consumer information here on this site for a while, I will slowly migrate all consumer-related content to the new site.
At the same time, I will be moving this site back towards its original mission: […]