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Boston Mayor To FCC: Please Don't Listen To Comcast
By Chris Morran on May 25, 2012 3:30 PM
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In April, cable subscribers in Boston were offered a glimmer of hope after the FCC ruled that the city would once again, after a decade of price increases from Comcast (the only cable company in town), be allowed to regulate cable pricing. But the war isn't over, as Comcast has asked the FCC to rethink its ruling while Boston's mayor has asked the FCC to just please not listen to Comcast. More »
The Legal Battle Begins Over Dish's Ad-Skipping DVR
By Chris Morran on May 25, 2012 2:26 PM
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As was predicted when Dish Network announced its Hopper DVR would allow users to skip commercials on recorded prime-time network TV shows, the so-called "holy grail for TV viewers" has ended up in court, with both sides racing to sue each other. More »
DirecTV: You Can't Cancel $198 NFL Package Until Next Month
By Laura Northrup on May 23, 2012 9:02 AM
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It was pretty thoughtful of DirecTV to automatically renew Pete's $198 NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. You know, in case he forgot. He didn't forget, actually, and he was planning to discontinue his subscription to the package. He can't. The auto-renew stands, and he won't be allowed to cancel the package until a month after the auto-renewal notice. You know, just in case he forgets. More »
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T-Mobile Admits It Made A $250 Error, Still Manages To Blame Me
By Chris Morran on May 22, 2012 5:00 PM
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Welcome to the T-Mobile Customer Service Labyrinth, where every turn brings you back to the center, where headset wearing minotaurs tell you that the exit is right in front of you but it's not the exit, and where the company can admit in writing to making an error that costs you $250 but says it's your fault. More »
Man Commits Suicide After Years Of Fighting Wachovia & Wells Fargo Over Mortgage Mess-Up
By Chris Morran on May 17, 2012 3:00 PM
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We've written some incredibly sad stories about homeowners trapped in the mortgage meltdown maze, and this one certainly ranks up there among the most depressing. Not just because a man is dead, but because it could have all been prevented more than three years ago. More »
Study Links Popular Antibiotic Zithromax To Rare But Deadly Heart Risk
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 17, 2012 2:00 PM
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Many people use the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, to treat bronchitis and other common infections. Some surprising results of a 14-year study might turn some off the antibiotic, as it found the risk of sudden deadly heart problems increased with use of Zithromax. More »
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Target's Price-Match Policy Not Suited To Paperless World
By Laura Northrup on May 17, 2012 8:30 AM
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Brick-and-mortar stores that match competitors' prices generally don't match prices from online merchants. They also won't match the websites of their competitors down the street, or price-match their own websites. All of that is reasonable and well within their rights. But what happens in a paperless world, where the only evidence a customer has of that sale price is a circular delivered electronically? Reader Span_Wolf receives an electronic copy of the Best Buy circular every week. Getting a paper copy would require a trip to Best Buy or purchasing a Sunday newspaper. But this isn't sufficient proof of the lower price for Target. More »
I Think Maybe I Used To Own An Asus Laptop
By Laura Northrup on May 15, 2012 9:35 AM
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Dave owns an Asus laptop. Well, he kind of vaguely remembers owning an Asus laptop. He's had it for four months, but it's spent the last month at the repair center, not being repaired. The system claims that it's waiting for parts, but no one is able to explain what that means, or when he might expect to see his computer again. More »
Is A DVR That Skips Entire Ad Breaks The 'Holy Grail' For TV Viewers?
By Chris Morran on May 11, 2012 1:45 PM
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Yesterday, Dish Network unveiled a new feature on its Hopper DVRs called Auto Hop, which allows customers to completely skip over ad breaks on certain prime-time network programs. The company's CEO has already touted this as "the Holy Grail of television viewers," but we're wondering if that might be overstating the case a little bit. More »
Disoriented Passenger Trying To Open Door During Flight Prompts Emergency Landing
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 11, 2012 1:00 PM
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Perhaps it's just a coincidence lately, but there seems to be an uptick in instances where people aboard planes — whether pilot, flight attendant or passenger — have disruptive episodes mid-flight. This latest brouhaha prompted a Philadelphia flight bound for Portland to make an emergency landing in Boston, after a passenger became unruly. More »
7 RMAs Later, Asus Still Won't Replace My Tablet
By Laura Northrup on May 10, 2012 11:30 AM
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Richard just wants a working tablet. He's sent his Asus Transformer in for repair seven separate times. It's usually for variations of the same issue, but Asus's records disagree. Handy, because those different service records mean that as far as Asus is concerned, the tablet hasn't come in over and over for the same issue, and doesn't need to be replaced. More »
FTC Goes After Nation's Largest 3rd-Party Billing Company For Profiting Off Bill-Cramming
By Chris Morran on May 8, 2012 11:15 AM
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The federal crackdown on the practice of landline bill-cramming — the slathering on of charges for often unauthorized third-party services onto consumers' phone bills — continues, with the Federal Trade Commission accusing the country's largest third-party billing business of attempting to cram $70 million worth of bogus charges down consumers' throats. More »
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Want Verizon FiOS To Price-Match Itself? You Need Imaginary Re-Installation
By Laura Northrup on May 8, 2012 10:34 AM
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A week after Kyle got Verizon FiOS installed in his new apartment, he saw an ad for a new subscriber deal that was $15 cheaper per month than the two-year contract he had just signed. No problem, then: just call them up and see whether they could price match their own deal. Sure, they could: but only if he canceled his new service, returned all of the equipment, and had the installers come out again to turn the service back on. Well, that's efficient. More »
The Word "Used" Should Never Describe Sanitary Products For Sale
By Mary Beth Quirk on May 7, 2012 5:00 PM
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Anyone can appreciate a good bargain on a used product that works just as well as when it was in brand new condition. Used cars? Great! Gently worn clothing? Sign me up. But perhaps when describing an item such as say, feminine hygiene products, such a term should not be attached. More »
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Woman Spends Night In Jail For Picking Up Prescription Refill
By Chris Morran on May 7, 2012 12:45 PM
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Police in Dallas added insult to injury when they arrested a woman in a leg brace for a shattered knee on charges of forging her painkiller prescription, even though her doctor says no one ever checked with him to see if the 'scrip was legitimate. More »
Oh Look, TV Viewers About To Get Screwed Over In Another Fee Dispute
By Chris Morran on May 4, 2012 3:00 PM
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If you have Dish Network satellite service, we hope you don't like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead or anything else on AMC, the Sundance Channel, IFC or WE TV. The company says it's dropping all four channels when their contract ends June 30. More »
Bioethicist: If We're Going To Tax Obese People More, We Should Tax Cat Owners Too
By Chris Morran on May 3, 2012 2:36 PM
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A growing number of people believe that obese Americans should pay more in taxes than healthy folks since being overweight can put you at a higher risk for health problems. It's similar to the logic used to justify additional taxes on cigarettes. But bioethicist Art Caplan asks: Why not tax cat owners more while we're at it? More »
How Many Minutes Should Store Employees Get To Clean Up Baby Vomit?
By Chris Morran on May 1, 2012 3:45 PM
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If you're walking down the aisle of a grocery store and a customer only a few feet in front of you accidentally drops a glass jar on the floor, you would have a hard time blaming the store if you got nicked by a piece of glass. But what if that shattered jar had been there for an hour? Thirty minutes? Ten minutes? This is the question that will soon face a jury in a slip-and-fall lawsuit against Target. More »
Fight Discriminatory TSA Profiling With Your Smartphone
By Laura Northrup on May 1, 2012 11:30 AM
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It's hard to find any travelers with nice things to say about the Transportation Safety Administration, but members of the Sikh faith really have a grievance. They claim that they're singled out for secondary screening at airport security to an extent that's discriminatory, and frequently ordered to allow inspections or removal of their turbans. So they're fighting back in 21st century fashion: with a smartphone app. More »
Report: Hulu Thinks Maybe You Shouldn't Cut Your Cable Cord Just Yet
By Chris Morran on April 30, 2012 6:19 PM
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Hulu is one of the many streaming services that have led a growing number of cable and satellite subscribers to cancel their subscriptions and get most of their TV entertainment via the Internet. But a new report claims that Hulu is now looking to appease cable companies by eventually making the service available only to those who are also paying for cable. More »
