We live on a fairly large piece of property with probably about 2 or 3 acres of field that I like to keep mowed and looking neat. It takes time, but I enjoy being outside in the summer.
For whatever reason, after 6 or so years of living here, out of the blue, my property was [...]

We’ve all heard about outsourcing and how many people believe that it is a practice that has been detrimental to the American worker. Big companies will always opt for the cheaper way of doing things. If they can fire a $100,000-a-year American engineer and hire a $20,000-a-year engineer from India, they are going to do [...]

I recently stumbled across an article that made a very good point. If you plan to throw away or sell an old computer, be certain that all of the information on the hard drives has been erased.
When I say ‘erased,’ I do not mean that you can simply delete all of the files on your [...]

In case you have missed it, the title for this post is a take-off of the TV commercial for Verizon’s FiOS Service where the wide-eyed little kid is so impressed with the Verizon service technician’s truck, which appears to be some kind of window into another dimension or something when the rear doors are opened.
There [...]

A new study by the GAO, otherwise known as the Government Accounting Office, shows that there are serious weaknesses in the laws that govern the use of social security numbers by private agencies and organizations.
The laws currently on the books seem to be intended primarily to govern the way that social security numbers are used [...]

I was reading an interesting article about how just about anyone can get free identity theft protection if they are willing to put in the time and effort to do it on their own.
There were a number of nice tips in this article that I was not previously aware of, including:
You can place a “Fraud [...]

In many ways, this blog will be the “heart” of the ConsumerKarma.com web site.
Here I will post current consumer-related news and information.
Things to look for here are news alerts regarding the latest scams popping up on the internet and elsewhere, news of companies that are providing outstanding products or services, news of companies that certainly [...]