<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>cbs4denver.com</title><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer</link><description><![CDATA[cbs4denver.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Television Stations Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:19:13 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[FAA Blames 819 Flight Delays On Equipment Outages]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. The agency told employees in a briefing memo Friday that air travelers
experienced a total of 2,21 delays the previous day due to the
equipment outage as well as thunderstorms and other poor weather in the
Northeast.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:04:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Minute: Watching Out For Phishing Scams]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</link><description><![CDATA[Phishing scams -- spelled with a P-H instead of an F but sounding just like "fishing" -- can get you into some hot water. It starts when you get an honest looking e-mail that tries to trick you into revealing your usernames, passwords and credit card details. According to CNET.com, more than 55,000 phishing attacks were launched in the first half of 2009. In this week's CNET Tech Minute, CNET.com's Brian Cooley tells us how to avoid getting hooked.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Prompts Vicks Nasal Spray Recall]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Procter &amp; Gamble Co. has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex
nasal spray after the company found bacteria in samples during routine
testing.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:21:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBay Sets Skype Loose At $2.75 B Valuation]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/eBay.Skype.acquisition.2.1323294.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/eBay.Skype.acquisition.2.1323294.html</link><description><![CDATA[Auction site eBay has, as long anticipated, sold off the Skype telephony service to a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen's new Andreessen Horowitz group, Silver Lake, and the Skype co-founders' Joltid Ltd. The investor group now holds about 70 percent of the company; eBay retains the rest in a minority stake.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:07:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feds Charge Dozens In Deaf Phone Scam]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</link><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf. Authorities say a number of companies schemed to create phony calls to a video service that allows the deaf to converse over phone lines to hearing people.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:04:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movie Popcorn, Soda Pack Surprising Calorie Wallop]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/movie.popcorn.calories.2.1321782.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/movie.popcorn.calories.2.1321782.html</link><description><![CDATA[Ordering a medium popcorn and soda combo from a major national movie theater chain is the equivalent of eating three McDonald's Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter, according to a new study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon Ads]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/ATT.Verizon.advertisements.2.1321178.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/ATT.Verizon.advertisements.2.1321178.html</link><description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage. A federal judge in Atlanta Wednesday declined to grant AT&amp;T a temporary restraining order that would force Verizon to stop showing the ads.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:42:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act Now On Refinancing - Or Kiss Low Rates Goodbye]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/refinance.interest.rates.2.1320836.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/refinance.interest.rates.2.1320836.html</link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination can be costly in financial affairs, especially with the biggest combined asset and debt most of us own and owe: our home and the mortgage we pay for it. There's a window of opportunity right now in the mortgage market that seems likely to close in months ahead &#150; one you may regret not capitalizing upon.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:08:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Williams: Cronkite Would Not Succeed Today]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/walter.cronkite.brian.2.1320733.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/walter.cronkite.brian.2.1320733.html</link><description><![CDATA[NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter. "I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too much to cut through for a modest man from Missouri," Williams told an audience in Phoenix. "But God and history combined to give him to us right when we needed him."<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:38:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low Home Building Bringing Economy Down]]></title><guid>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/home.building.economy.2.1320083.html</guid><link>http://cbs4denver.com/consumer/home.building.economy.2.1320083.html</link><description><![CDATA[The budding economic recovery is getting little help from the home
building industry, which normally creates jobs and boosts growth as a
recession ends. Construction of homes unexpectedly plunged last
month to its lowest point since April, the Commerce Department said
Wednesday. The weak figures show that builders still lack confidence
that buyers can soak up the glut of unsold homes already on the market
&#151; a supply magnified by a record number of home foreclosures.<br />
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