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"Dangerous Cadmium Found In Products At U.S. Retail Chains"

After years of outcry over lead in children's toys and products from parents and environmental groups, the Consumer Products Safety Commision now heavily regulates how much can be in any given item. But now a new filler, Cadmium, a known human carcinogen, has been found to take its place in jewelry imported from China.

"It's a nasty toxic metal," said Dr. Phillip Landirgan, Chairman of Community ...

"Suit Claims Fraud by New York Debt Collectors"

The first notice that a debt judgment had been entered against her came in July, said Monique Sykes. Big red letters were splashed across the top: “Marshal’s Notice of Execution.”

“I was in a panic,” recalled Ms. Sykes, 29, of the Bronx. “For like 5 or 10 minutes all my eyes could focus on were those words, ‘Marshal’s Notice,’ ...

If you're the type of person who carries debt on your credit card from month to month, you should always have one "clean" credit card in your wallet, says Bob Sullivan of Red Tape Chronicles in his new book, Stop Getting Ripped Off: Why Consumers Get Screwed, and How You Can Always Get a Fair Deal. A "clean" credit card is one that you know can always get paid off in full if you use it, and you only whip it out for emergencies. For some consumers, this results in paying less interest and fewe...

#5 - Exploding iPods

THE TECHNOLOGY: Apple iPods and iPhones contain a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, one of the most efficient batteries yet developed. A lithium battery can carry more than three times the energy of an old-fashioned nickel-cadmium battery.

THE PANIC: Lithium is a pretty reactive element, and if it short-circuits, a lithium-ion battery can heat up rapidly. This can cause iPhones, iPods, and other e...

Why should businesses spend additional effort and resources to create privacy-friendly locational applications? Many consumers can be reassured by soothing words about privacy and won't read the fine print and technical specs. But failing to seriously defend customers' locational privacy will prove to be a time bomb for any business.

Over the next decade, systems that track and record our movement through physical space will be woven inextricably into everyday life. Already...

It’s late at night during these last few days before Christmas. You’re bathed in the ghostly glow of your laptop computer at your kitchen table. As you shop on the Internet, you think you’re safely beyond retailers’ manipulative grasp.

Thing is, you’re not. As much as brick-and-mortar shoppers can be influenced by a store’s layout and the product placement within, so can online shoppers with the design of a retailer’s Web site.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo make efforts to purge search results of fraudulent sites, but removing them all "impossible"

Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.

With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Online charlatans typically try to lure people into giving away thei...