summertime blues

CBS Blackout Leads To Increase In Pirating Of That Show With The People Under The Dome

CBS Blackout Leads To Increase In Pirating Of That Show With The People Under The Dome

CBS’s Under the Dome is typical summer network TV junk food — it might not be up to standards of great shows, but it’s on and it will do until the fall season starts up in a few weeks, so people are watching it. Now that Time Warner Cable customers in the nation’s two largest markets and several others can no longer watch the weekly goings-on of the trapped residents of Chester’s Mill, Maine, viewers are going to the Internet to get their fix. [More]

Is It Too Early For Back-To-School Sales?

Is It Too Early For Back-To-School Sales?

Public school students in Union City, NJ, just wrapped up classes earlier this week. So Consumerist reader Juhgail was caught off guard when she popped into a Staples to pick up some supplies and came upon an entire rack of back-to-school items. [More]