Mari McQueen of Consumer Reports says for most people, it's no better than carefully reading statements, because the monitoring services don't prevent fraud.
Consumer Reports says it drew on research from a 2006 Entrepreneur.com article that analyzed the amount of additional fuel burned by heavy drivers.
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Simply, the iPhone 4 works better than pretty much any other phone you can buy, and even Consumer Reports says so, calling it the best smartphone on the market.
Terry Sullivan, an associate editor at Consumer Reports, says another area shoppers could look for savings is in older camera models.
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Jake Fisher, head of automotive testing for Consumer Reports magazine, says the newfangled designs can present problems for drivers.
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Consumer Reports is out with a new report that says the most-loved car in America is the Chevrolet Volt.
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Not a meaningful difference, says John Santa, director of Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, a research arm of Consumer Reports magazine.
Certainly the Volt will have to prove itself by demonstrating good quality over years of performance, says David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports' auto test division.
"Get prepared to receive this letter, " says Dr. John Santa, director of the Consumer Reports health ratings center.
Ford once again is being put in a harsh light by Consumer Reports, this time over mileage claims for Ford hybrids that the magazine says are about 20 percent higher than its real-world tests revealed.
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"Now the problem with that, of course, is that if you're not reading, watching or listening in the right place, you're gonna miss the news, " says Donald Mays, senior director for public safety planning for Consumer Reports magazine.
"Consumers paid the price for ordering free credit reports from freecreditreport.com, " says Lydia Parnes , the FTC's director of Consumer Protection.
The company says it will analyze the data for trends and use its information to generate reports on consumer products and services.
The problems, says David Champion, a former Land Rover and Nissan engineer who runs the auto testing program for Consumer Reports, are electronic.
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