A recent court ruling against Sprint (S), has declared audacious Early Termination Fees to be illegal; resulting in Sprint to pay $73 million dollars to customers who were charged maliciously by the wireless carrier. This is the time to terminate Early Termination Fees. Read more…
Today, Southern California was rocked with an 5.6 earthquake. While it’s definitely newsworthy, social media prevailed at getting the message out first over mainstream media (MSM). Sometimes, it’s the raw, unedited content from those affected that can be the story. However, MSM can help carry the message out for others. Read more…
Allegedly, Windows Vista is more secure then it’s predecessor, Windows XP. I dispute this as simply a manipulation with statistics and PR from Redmond.Of course, this comparison is over a period of 21 months, but I strongly believe Windows Vista is still insecure due to their closed-source activity. Read more…
Spam-king, Eddie Davidson, escaped from prison with the help from his girlfriend and eventually led to the murder-suicide of Davidson and his girlfriend. This just shows that convicted spammers are ruthless and will do anything they can for an easy out. Read more…
If you’re an AOL XDrive, AOL Pictures or BlueString user, it’s time to save your content before it’s gone. The New York based company announced that it will be shutting down it’s multimedia services due to low ad revenue and low user engagement. Read more…
Whenever a product, service or feature is released into the hands of your consumers, customers and users, the provider must always continually need to manage expectations to meet the needs of their users. I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot this week, as I often share my perspectives positive consumer experiences. Read more…
After many months of speculation and veilled warnings issued to application developers, Facebook looks like they are ready to start rolling out their new layout for their social network. Personally, the changes don’t impress me and I expect many people to be upset. Read more…
Finally, someone who agrees with me. Earlier last week, NY Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, urged ISPs to block Usenet Newsgroup access to take a stance against the distribution of illegal child porn. I fundamentally disagree with the position that Cuomo has taken and is a sad attempt to help bolster his political career. Read more…
Yahoo pulls out the big guns (homepage advertising) to attempt to overpower Carl Icahn from ousting the Yahoo executive team. Personally, I find these ads not tailored to a majority of their users. Inside, I’ll show you the array of ads Yahoo is running against Icahn and my thoughts on it. Read more…
Spamming doesn’t pay — especially if you’re Adam Vitale, 27 from New York, was sentenced after his guilty plea for spamming more than 1.3 million AOL users. His partner in crime, Todd Moeller, assisted him by obfuscating sources of the junk mail, making it nearly untraceable, known as ’spoofing.’ Read more…
