Your Money – Hurry Up and Credit My Checking Account – Banks Play With Your Cash

What is it with these banks that are so quick to hit you with a fee for spending more than you have in your checking account but take their own sweet time in crediting deposits? My colleague Andrew Martin and I heard that complaint repeatedly from readers after we wrote about overdraft fees earlier this month. The angry questions happened to arrive as we approach the five-year anniversary of when the federal law known as Check 21 took effect. The law allows banks to turn paper checks into

Carefirst Screws Up Paperwork, Denies Me Surgery

Promoted from the Diaries by Texas Nate. Brett is a long-time friend and colleague of Jerome and I from many campaigns. This is a text book example of real life corporate death panels. I have Crohn's disease . I've had it for 17 years, over half my life. I don't remember what it's been like to not have it, but other than a few flare ups, I haven't had many issues. I've been lucky to have been functioning so well, and lucky to have insurance to cover the massive costs of required tests and

Another turn by turn app with voice for the iPhone

Filed under: iPhone , App Store , App Review Many months ago I received a review copy of G-Map for the iPhone. It had its own maps and turn by turn directions, but no voice guidance, and North was always up. Apple was limiting nav apps at that time, and I had real trouble with G-Map. I couldn’t load it on my iPhone. It kept locking up about halfway through the process. Extensive back and forth with the developers in Japan came to nothing, so I gave up. Finally, last April, my colleague S