Scammers Want to Hire You
Duping people into giving money using the Nigerian scam has proven to be highly successful. This scam grew by sending unsolicited spam to your mailbox. The scammers dupe you into wiring them money to pay for fees, bribes, etc. and promise you a portion of large sums of money for helping them out.
After many years, this [...]
Yahoo Stays Mum
No big shock, but Yahoo has only a short time left to respond to Microsoft’s deadline, and it doesn’t look like they are going to. Yahoo hasn’t said a word today. We’ll probably have to wait until Monday to get Microsoft’s response. They have stated they would do an end-around by going directly to the [...]
MicroHoo - The Deadline
Tomorrow is the deadline Microsoft set for Yahoo to accept their buyout offer. Microsoft ain’t budging on price, and Yahoo ain’t playing nice. Microsoft’s stock; however, dropped significantly today closing at $29.83 and losing 6.19% of its value in one day. Microsoft reported weak sales of both XP and Vista, on top of their 1.42 [...]
Quality Bonding Time
Be sure and get your series I savings bonds before May 1st when the rates drop drastically. Right now, they are paying a fixed 1.2 percent above inflation, which is currently 4.28 percent - one of the highest paying investments you can make. The fixed rate will drop drastically if you purchase May bonds, so [...]
Apple, We’re Not All Idiots
Apple, Inc. seems to think that because people flocked to their marketing hype of how easy to use Apple computers are, that means we’re idiots. Afterall, that’s what was said of those who flocked to AOL because it was easy - that those who used AOL were too much of an idiot to figure out [...]
vBulletin 3.7 Going Gold
I’ve been waiting a long time for vBulletin to finalize the 3.7 release. It is official. It’s going gold!
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=267513
Sometime in the next week we’ll have the latest version. This will be a big deal for forum communities as the improvements to the user profile will be more of a personal space for users rather than [...]