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Glitches, Price Shock, and Scammers Plague Full Rollout of Obamacare

obamacare

Open enrollment into Obamacare continues to be plagued with glitches while at the same time shocking enrollees as to how much it will actually cost. The confusion created because of these problems is also creating an open season for scammers. The Affordable Healthcare Act, commonly known as Obamacare, went into open enrollment on October 1 […]

October 13th, 2013 | Posted in Featured,Health,New,Opinion | Read More »

Facebook Alters Its Privacy Settings, Getting Rid Of Ability To Hide Profiles

Facebook Search

Facebook is changing its privacy settings once again, and if you’re been hiding in its shadows, you won’t be for very much longer.  According to recent announcement from the popular social media website, the company is getting rid of a privacy setting that lets people hide their profiles from other people in the search field. […]

October 12th, 2013 | Posted in Featured,New,Sci/Tech | Read More »

Skype Being Investigated in Luxembourg for Alleged NSA Ties

It was announced on Friday by Luxembourg’s data protection commissioner that Microsoft-owned Skype is being investigated related to complaints that it turned over user information to the United States National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM program. The Skype users involved in the complaints are Luxembourg-based. The data protection commissioner is part of Luxembourg’s Data Protection Authority […]

October 12th, 2013 | Posted in Business,New,Sci/Tech | Read More »

Republicans Show Signs of Easing on its Debt Ceiling Stance

Democratics and Republicans

Conservative Republicans of the U.S. House of Representatives showed signs Wednesday that they might be willing to ease their stance on not raising the debt ceiling just enough to keep the country from going into default. This development began taking shape in the midst of the government shutdown that started on October 1 which is […]

October 10th, 2013 | Posted in Featured,New | Read More »

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