British Airways credit card charge 46% interest
Have you checked your credit card insert lately? With the treasury notes interest rates hanging around 0% (or less), credit card companies are hiking their borrowing rates for their customers. American Express, has just raised their borrowing rates for their premium Plus cards to staggering 46%.
Some groups called this Amex move “ridiculous” according to Daily Mail [...]
iGo delivers green devices to save energy and environment
This week is a CES 2009 week. New and not so new technology is being shown for the first time. Customers have a change to see what the vendors are working on and plan to deliver in not so distant future.
Microsoft on10.net us reporting on a new promising devices from a company iGo, which promise to cut the consumed [...]
A gene that makes cancer spread is found.
According to an article, published by Bloomberg-Australia scientists of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick (USA) and Prinston University (USA) discovered a new gene,called metadherin, which is a main suspect in being responsible for breast cancer becoming metastatic.
Apparently this gene exists in every cell of our bodies. Any human cells attacked by a cancerous tumors use this gene to multiply [...]
Scandal at outsourcing Satyam could be India’s Enron
Millions of investors (including Enron employees with their 401k accounts) in United States were wiped out by the 2001 scandal of Enron. Well, today India has experienced a similar event. According to Reuters story , the Indian outsourcing giant was allegedly a creation of public perception based on Satyam top management’s lies.
Indian’s market was sent to a tail [...]
Plug with a hole
Some things are way too cool to ignore. LikeCool.com online magazine is showing off a very simple, yet practical home invention- plug with a hole by Kim Seung Woo. It’s easy on the fingers as you pull it from the wall, and some claim – it may even help save the earth. If you have an [...]
Plasma TV to be banned in California
I am getting my plasma TV now. According to an article published on BusinessGreen.com, if the government of California has its way, one will not be able to purchase big plasma and LCD TVs, which currently are alleged to be the least energy efficient devices in our homes.
Yes, it is true that big 60 inch plasma units [...]