One of the leading causes of death in the United States is from sudden cardiac arrest, it has struck in my family and the families of many friends as well. Sudden Cardiac Arrest can be accompanied by an Irregular Heartbeat or a pre-existing case of heart disease, as is the case in my family. Some of the risk factors associated [...]

The European Union sure does have it out for Microsoft. The EU has imposed a record setting fine against the world’s largest software maker in retaliation for what it considers unreasonable prices being charged to companies seeking to design software compatible with the Microsoft Windows Operating System. Microsoft is trading down only slightly at the open, although the stock is [...]

RF Micro Devices, a stock I wrote about as a good buy about a month ago, has seen investment interest from a fund controlled by George Soros. The fund has announced a 5.15 percent stake in RF Micro today. It is unclear when the shares were accumulated and at what price, but it is certain that the purchase established a [...]

February has been a good month for my two web proxies – Unblock YouTube and Rasta Proxy. I switched webhosts because of stability problems I was having with the VPS (Virtual Private Server) I was utilizing initially. Tech Entrance Hosting offers shared proxy hosting, which I have found to be very fast, easy to use and manager and most of [...]

The tax rebate that most American’s are expecting to arrive sometime this year will hopefully spur the economy, my check will not. I don’t plan on spending my tax rebate, instead putting the full amount ($600 as I calculate it) toward paying down student loan debt and boosting my savings. But, many people will be spending that check the moment [...]

I’ve come across a great coupon code for address labels from VistaPrint recently. This coupon code entitles the user to 75% off their order of address labels. BlogAddress75 – 75% off address labels VistaPrint offers a wide variety of products including business cards, direct mail postcards, stationary, address labels and more and is geared toward the budget conscious consumer and [...]

eBay’s new CEO recently announced an overhaul of site fees and policy shifts that greatly reduce the profitablity and safety for sellers. I recently blogged about the large increase in Final Value Fees being assessed by eBay that began recently and now eBay is also not allowing sellers to leave negative comments on deadbeat buyers profiles, making selling on eBay [...]

Identity theft is affecting more and more people every year and you don’t have to be one of them. For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint list, accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Identities can be stolen by dumpster divers that dig [...]

You know that the market is down when Warren Buffet begins to see opportunity around every corner. An announcement was made Thursday about Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of a very large stake in Kraft Foods, making it the largest shareholder of the maker of many consumer staple food products. The Kraft purchase is only one of the many recent Buffet acquisitions [...]

On Monday, Yahoo will be announcing that they are rejecting the unsolicited $44.6 Billion buyout offer they received from Microsoft earlier this month. This is exactly the move I was hoping for. Depending on how traders take the news on Monday, Yahoo shares could climb if they believe Microsoft will make a counter-offer or they could plummet and create a [...]