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Web Shoppers' New Option: Bill Me Later
News Instead of paying for purchases with a credit card, some online consumers now have another option: a "bill me later" button. On Tuesday, payment-processing company CyberSource announced that it has integrated the "bill me later" feature into its...
[October 2, 2002, 8:13]
BTopenworld, NTL Top Complaints Charts
Talkback A month later I received another bill which exceeded the £25 per month. In August of 2004 I received a bill for £200 for one month, on checking the bill I discovered that most of the numbers listed were premium lines dialled via the internet.
[June 8, 2005, 14:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Thanks, Bill. Third on the bill was Nirvana). Not content with inventing the Internet (as the Times reported a couple of weeks ago: this is the same newspaper that's advised its readers to keep their CD-ROMs away from magnetic fields), Bill Gates...
[April 4, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thanks, Bill. Third on the bill was Nirvana). Not content with inventing the Internet (as the Times reported a couple of weeks ago: this is the same newspaper that's advised its readers to keep their CD-ROMs away from magnetic fields), Bill Gates...
[April 4, 1998, 8:00]
Tim Palmer, Greatest Computer Press Reporter, Is Dead
News I'm also remembering a conversation, some 12 years ago, with Bill Gates - in those days, Bill still spoke to me when we met. It was incomparable; he not only knew exactly (to the week, ten years later) what story ran in what trade paper, by which...
[June 5, 1997, 15:47]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback i still recieving bill from bulldog even though i CANCEL it before the line even goes LIVE! months later, they've taken money out of my bank WITHOUT me knowning! and when i phone them, they told me that shouldnt happen!
[February 9, 2006, 18:30]
Carphone Warehouse Freebie Broadband Stumbles
Talkback STILL no paperwork or welcome pact has arrived to this day.but my phone bill did of over £62 which included charges of 2 International lines! Agreed by phone to join the TT service on May 13th, didn't receive ANYTHING at all, rang & rang &rang...
[August 26, 2006, 13:23]
BTopenworld, NTL Top Complaints Charts
Talkback The operator informed me that no compensation could be paid but she agreed to reduce my bill for broadband, cable TV and phone line rental for a period of 3 months. The installation engineer said he would put a call in for the engineers to sort...
[January 9, 2006, 16:30]
E-bill Reverses Burden Of Proof, Says Expert
News Newly appointed e-Minister Patricia Hewitt was forced to defend the controversial e-commerce bill Thursday from civil liberties campaigners, who maintain the bill is a threat to basic civil rights. Speaking at the Scrambling for Safety conference...
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback I disconnected all the equipment so not to use it, now i have just been landed with a £360 Debt recovery bill, still no joy from bulldog. When the package arrived i installed it and took advantage of using the internet, when i managed to get on...
[October 18, 2006, 23:41]
Microsoft Slammed Over WinMe Bug
News Microsoft apparently uses this technique heavily across its sites and Bill Machrone wants to tell you all about this potential new assault on your privacy. One month later Windows Me was released. Analysts at Security Focus, the Web site that runs...
[September 15, 2000, 13:18]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback Just another bill for services I haven't received for nearly a year. I refused to give them my bank details, which the official customer services (official meaning, the number associated with my bill and the website) department had already received...
[April 6, 2006, 1:43]
£100 For An ITunes Download: The Real Cost Of Roaming
News In these cases, users will not know what they are being charged until they receive their bill, which can easily be six or seven weeks later — more than enough time for them to have run up even higher charges.
[November 1, 2005, 14:00]
Bulldog Fixes Broadband Problems
Talkback The bill was right and there was no direct debit set up! Then you started threatning to diconnect and I called yet again on the 18/8/06 to sort this out, and the chap I spoke to was very helpful sorted the first bill out which you were over...
[October 9, 2006, 13:03]
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog I got my room moved to the fourth floor and had them comp my Internet access bill. Two seconds later that stops too, and there's a minute of silence. Bottled water is handed in -- I decline, as it's just too David Blaine -- and two minutes later we...
[September 19, 2003, 18:25]
Chris Long's Column: Bill Gates Knows I'm A Dork!
News At the end of the flight was an hour with Bill Gates -- I didn't needed to be rested and relaxed, I needed my head examined. Me and Bill Gates? He did read it and eleven days later I got a reply from him and I was horrified.
[May 10, 1999, 9:32]
Microsoft Gets Into The Groupware Groove
News Chairman Bill Gates mentioned some other areas - such as authentication, encryption and peer-to-peer - where you could contribute. I think what Bill is referring to is that some of those technologies, particularly security, have more general...
[March 14, 2005, 10:50]
Ntl Incompetence
Forum I went through a two year misery with ntl, beginning when their contractors damaged my tv set and refused to pay for its repair (in the end, they took it away, and left me to pay the bill); the usual quota of poor service and faulty installation...
[January 3, 2006, 8:23]
Virus Lands T-Online Customer With Giant Bill
News One look at at his T-Online bill and Patrick S, a businessman from Straubing, Bavaria, almost suffered a stroke. When the second bill of 15,000 deutschmarks (£4,629) arrived, the angry customer became even more suspicious and turned to the police.
[August 9, 2000, 14:30]
Spam Bill Making Headway In US Pt I
News The House Commerce Committee passed an anti-spam bill Wednesday, setting up a vote later this summer by the full House and reconciliation with a bill already through the Senate. The bill would allow ISPs and consumers to sue spammers who violate...
[June 16, 2000, 11:25]
