In 2006, 7 million U.S. businesses accepted credit cards and paid roughly $30 billion in processing fees, which banks mostly pocketed. Banks are creating new credit card reward programs for their customers, but the catch is merchants are picking up the bill.....
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Credit Card Processing Fees Up 117% in Last 5 Years
Saturday, November 17, 2007
AT&T Program Change: Drop EDGE from your iPhone plan, save $20/month.
As of yesterday, AT&T allows you to drop the $20/month data/EDGE feature from your iPhone plan. If your EDGE coverage sucks or you work around WiFi, keep your minutes and ditch the data. You lose Visual Voice Mail but you still qualify for Apple tech support and 2-Year warranty coverage.
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Bush receives early holiday gift: copy of Constitution
A human rights group is encouraging people to give President Bush an early holiday gift: the US Constitution, and a polite letter asking him to read it. Every time someone signs the online petition, the organization will send a copy of the Constitution to the White House as a "seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld not destroyed
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Ten Ways to Defeat Brain Drain
Those of us who feel we are busy all the time can experience burn out, exhaustion and fatigue from spending long periods of time in focused concentration. I like to refer to this as Brain Drain. This, if gone unchecked, can result in feelings of depression, stress or anger if you continue to push after the drain has set in
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