CFA’s survey of 100 Internet payday loan sites showed that loans from $200 to $2,500 were available, with $500 the most frequently offered. Finance charges ranged from $10 per $100 up to $30 per $100 borrowed. The most frequent rate was $25 per $100, or 650% annual interest rate (APR) if the loan is repaid in two weeks.
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According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple-BFF and mobile-telecom-extroidinaire AT&T is in talks with Google about joining the . In an interview today, Ralph de la Vega — chief executive officer of the company’s wireless unit — said that the provider is, “Analyzing the situation,” concerning the use of Google’s operating system for some of its handsets. (Read content ‘AT&T in talks with Google over the Open Handset Alliance?’…)
Sometimes are spot-on. Just like we heard, Nintendo is launching two special-edition Nintendo DS bundles for the holidays. The ships with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass while the Metallic Rose ships with the Best Friends version of . Each comes emblazoned with the series’ signature logo, “a shiny nugget that any gamer — girl or guy — would be proud to show off.” Right, ’cause all gamers love to show off their nuggets. (Read content ‘Nintendo’s DS Lite Bundles are a real pair’…)
The EU just lashed Sony, Fuji, and Maxell with fines totaling €75 million ($110 million) on grounds of . The 3-way Japanese cartel controlling 85% of the professional videotape market was found guilty of artificially controlling prices on Betacam SP and Digital Betacam — the two most popular professional videotape formats in use between 1999 and 2002. (Read content ‘Sony, Fuji, and Maxell fined $110M for videotape cartel’…)
Hot on the heels of Gamerator’s stupendous and AOTS “” comes a DIY project that gives both of the aforementioned products a run for their money. The aptly-titled IKEA MAME Dinner Table cleverly crams a MAME machine into a standard dinner table, which we’re absolutely sure any warm-blooded mother (and / or gamer) could appreciate. (Read content ‘DIY’er stuffs MAME machine into dinner table’…)
We apologize in advance if any of what follows hits a little too close to home, but unless you’re camped out in South Korea, you don’t have to worry about being ripped from your computer and sent to the Jump Up Internet Rescue School. Much like seen earlier this year in China, this compound attempts to rehabilitate citizens from their dependence on the intarweb by forcing coaxing them into less digital activities such as pottery and drumming (, anyone?). (Read content ‘Korea’s internet addict camp breaks dependance with crafts, drumming’…)
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Here’s a sure fire way to set rumors in motion: list an unannounced, though hotly rumored camera in a pull-down list on your website. Right there you’ve got the Canon . That’s it, just a name in a list on a reputable software vendor’s bug tracking page. Legitimate leak, idle speculation, or dastardly ploy to drive traffic to PhaseOne — that’s the real question. Proof? (Read content ‘Canon’s 5D Mark II rumor gets another jolt’…)
On the lookout for portable projection? Sure, us too. That’s why we were pleased to see these new Oculon Hikari Pro1440 and Pro920 (pictured) projectors land in our tips box this morning. The pair can project a 15- or 20-inch display from a distance of just 2-feet. The $399 Pro1440 LCoS model throws 250 lumens across a 20-inch, 800 x 600 pixel display from Composite or D-Sub15 RGB connected sources including game consoles, laptops, and portable media players. (Read content ‘Oculon’s Hikari Pro920 might be the world’s tiniest projector’…)