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Imagine subscribing to Sky or a similar Cable TV provider. Imagine paying a montly flat fee for those extra channels you wanted. Imagine then, having only been given a limited number of hours for watching those channels per month. Once you’ve reached the limit, your provider will start charging you extra on an hourly rate. You have the choice of turning off you television set, or cough up the money when you get the bill at the end of the month. This analogy is exactly similar to “broadband capping”.If you haven’t got broadband at home yet, chances are, you will do very very soon. Prices have come down a lot since it was first introduced a few years ago. Fortunately, speeds have gone up and up and up. You’ve had a taste for the speed at work or at a friend’s place. So you start looking at prices and special deals by Internet Service Providers, more often than enough, that’s when you get caught.

This is how the next version of Microsoft Outlook (version 12) will look like. Clearly, the KISS Principle is absent here.
Are you scared yet?

This year on Valentine’s Day in the UK marks the last day that credit cardholders will be asked to sign for their purchases. Shoppers who do not know their chip and PIN details will be turned away. Half a million people has been estimated to have yet receive a chip and PIN card.

Have you received yours yet?

Via National Consumer Council

You already need a password to log on to your computer, a different one to access your webmail; and now you need a PIN to do your weekly shop. Like most of us, you’re probably fed up remembering all these passwords and numbers, so try these tips for choosing and remembering your PIN. Not only will it prevent you from being a victim of fraud, using and remembering your PIN will mean you’ll never have to leave your groceries at the checkout again.