According to dowloadsquad.com, with all the recent privacy issues that keep cropping up in the various social networks, it’s no surprise that people are looking to find a way to protect users in a more proactive, permanent way. This week, the Electronic Freedom Foundation got more deeply involved by posting a proposal for a Social […]
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The Arizona Republic warns that those who are without a job and who are behind on bills are particularly vulnerable to the scams that offer big money for little work. Sometimes they stumble into one scam, then another as they try to recover from the first. Eric Grayson of Louisville, Ky., paid Phoenix-based Bankcard Empire
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Entrepreneurs who want to put principles before profits–even after their companies go public–may soon have the legal cover to do just that, reports BusinessWeek. On Apr. 13, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a law creating legal entities known as “benefit corporations” and giving them greater protection from shareholder lawsuits. California and Vermont have similar bills
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Benjamin Franklin still appears on the $100 bill, but he’s got a few new bells and whistles alongside him, reports The Washington Post. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke unveiled the redesigned C-note, which includes new security features designed to weed out counterfeit versions of the most copied piece
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26 year-old Michael Aiello has just won “the people’s vote” at the annual Oxford Entrepreneurs Idea Idol competition at Saïd Business School for his clever range of wallets and passport cases that protect their contents from remote skimming attacks, reports The Telegraph. Aiello came up with the idea while studying radio emission security at New
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USA TODAY reports that with the federal tax-filing deadline looming, spam enticing Internet users to fill out bogus forms at faked IRS websites is flooding inboxes. And slick Web page promotions for overnight tax-preparation services and instant refunds are turning up in Google search results and Twitter micro-blog postings. Be wary, the IRS and tech
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When Vanessa Troyer and Chris Farentinos first hit on the idea that would change their lives, they were thinking big – a little too big, actually, according to a story in The New York Times. It was a mail receptacle/guest house,” Farentinos jokes, describing an oversize, locking mailbox nicknamed the Elephant Trunk. His wife agrees.
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The Kansas City Star reports that there’s a patent behind millions of products – from fishing lures to life-saving medical devices to the icing on a cake. And behind many patented products (and services) is an attorney – preparing and filing applications, drafting legal documents to license the use of inventions, defending clients against charges
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A patent provides an inventor/owner exclusive rights to an invention for a limited period of time. Many people have the misconception that a patent gives the inventor rights to make, use, and sell the invention. Actually, it does not. A patent provides the right to exclude others from making, using, and selling the invention. This
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It’s one thing to have resolutions for the new year. I, for example, plan to lose weight, learn Python and design the perfect web app. But since nothing satisfies like the quick achievement of a short-term goal, Jolie O’Dell over at ReadWriteWeb has put together eight things every good web user needs to do before
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