Tag: CREDIT

Utterly insane: depending on which browser you use to visit the Capital One Auto Loans website, you will be offered a different APR. With Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 I experienced significantly lower rates than Chrome 8 and Internet Explorer 9 -- 3.1 percent versus 3.5 percent! That could be thousands of dollars over a three- or five-year car loan. Whether this is truly bias towards one group of ...

Micropayments are the Holy Grail of online exchange. Being able to pay for the content you like, even if it's a small sum, makes a huge difference for both the viewer and the creator. There are numerous implementations of micropayment systems. Most people use PayPal; personally, I dislike it. They have something against my perfectly valid credit card, so I can never open an account; without an ...

Advertising makes the Internet go round, but it's also become a tremendous problem. Between unsavory malware peddlers injecting their nefarious scripts into unsuspecting sites and misleading software ads tricking people into installing useless registry and driver tools, it's no wonder ad blocking has become so commonplace. And now McAfee, longtime developers of security-related software, are ...

Open-source software is everywhere, and developers use it to speed up their development on a regular basis. This is as it should be, for the most part, assuming the developers follow the licensing for whatever open-source software (OSS) they use. Along with licensing, the open-source community is, probably rightly so, very focused on attributing credit correctly. Considering that most OSS ...

It can be hard to build your credit history if you don't have a mortgage, car loan, student loans, or credit card bills to pay off. But odds are you're making other payments on a regular basis, like your rent and utility bills. They just don't usually count as far as credit history goes. PRBC is a service that helps make those other payments count. PRBC stands for Payment Reporting Builds ...