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Roaming Rip-off Puts Travellers Off Phoning Home
News The high cost of roaming is putting Europeans off using their mobiles abroad, according to research from the European Commission, which found that eight out of 10 European travellers have been deterred from phoning home due to price.
[November 8, 2006, 10:19]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment What I am confused about is that you went to Curry's for the cable and are surprised at the rip off price! However, for the average consumer it's a bit of a con - you expect to be able to take your printer home and use it out of the box.
[December 5, 2007, 14:29]
UK Startup Declares War On 'rip Off Britain'
News Online retailer Intersaver.co.uk, launched Thursday, claims that it is "declaring war on rip off Britain" and promises to offer consumers savings of up to 35 percent on consumer electronics. The site currently stocks home entertainment goods, white...
[November 19, 1999, 9:50]
NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Part 1
Blog Yet the NCC and the National Assembly members appear to have submitted the communication destiny of our dear nation to these dishonourable, rip off companies. The manner in which some of them rip off their customers’ phone credits leaves very few...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News He said Sling is not out to rip anyone off and cited two of the company's backers as a testament to its good intentions. The cable subscriber in such a scenario already purchased the content from a programmer back home and under the law can watch...
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
News Sarti was speaking at an open meeting to discuss the Home Office consultation about the draft code of practice for Part III of the RIP Act, which will govern how its powers can be used. Earlier this summer, the Government announced that it plans to...
[August 15, 2006, 11:05]
Microsoft: We Took MikeRoweSoft Too Seriously
Talkback Lay off Microsoft - ever considered that maybe they are such control freaks and protective of their stuff BECAUSE people seem to want to rip THEM off? Boo hoo, go home jealous girls. You really are kidding right?
[April 20, 2006, 19:07]
Microsoft: We Took MikeRoweSoft Too Seriously
Talkback Lay off Microsoft - ever considered that maybe they are such control freaks and protective of their stuff BECAUSE people seem to want to rip THEM off? Boo hoo, go home jealous girls. What rubbish. Mike's site is already located at www...
[February 21, 2004, 17:02]
Home Office Wins Internet Villain Award
News Ironically, it is the delay in the full implementation of the RIP Act that earned the Home Office the Internet Villain award. In the end, the Home Office beat off its rivals, the Radiocommunications Agency and Oftel, the telecommunications...
[February 14, 2002, 13:12]
Oasis' McGee: '£14.99 For A CD Completely Unjustified'
News Arguments centred around the moral dilemma -- or not -- facing consumers who "choose to rip off musicians", as Fionnuala Duggan, VP of New Media at EMI Recorded Music, put it. Joe consumer is being ripped off every time he walks into a retail music...
[May 16, 2000, 10:28]
A Plug For Sanity
Leader Instead, this tiny point of low technology has been behind the most enduring and annoying consumer rip-off of recent years. The waste is enormous, not to mention the risk of blowing an expensive phone up by plugging in the wrong charger and the...
[September 26, 2007, 17:27]
Nuggets: Creative's MP3 Jukebox Is Cool But Large
News The software can rip a CD in about 12 minutes and transfer files via USB at the same time. However, don't let size put you off. One line in and two line out sockets mean you can plug in some speakers and party away, using the DAP as a home stereo...
[August 24, 2000, 17:31]
Jane Wakefield - ISPs Of The World Unite!
News The Home Office has been triumphant and will carry through RIP. government has in effect said with RIP. It goes by the name of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill and it wants to watch you.
[November 19, 1999, 17:07]
RentACoder: EBay For Contractors?
Talkback Hence a sense of favorism towards buyers is clearly visible and this buyer always used such an unfair favorism to deceive and rip off many coders of their rightful money like myself and run away with completed projects under the protection of...
[February 8, 2005, 19:04]
RIP Becomes Law, Opponents Promise 'cold War'
News Internet campaigners promise to launch a "cold war" against the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill which became law Friday after a final reading in the House of Lords this week.
[July 28, 2000, 11:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Any week that starts with me having to rip the top off my PC is not going to go smoothly, but, nevertheless, have great fun with a new video card, Motion Picture from Advanced Technologies Manufacturing Ltd.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Report Says Snooping Bill Expensive And Useless
News The controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers(RIP) Bill will cost Britain a crippling £43bn over the next five years if made law, according to a report published Monday. The overall financial implication of RIP, in terms both of losses and...
[June 13, 2000, 9:46]
£100 For An ITunes Download: The Real Cost Of Roaming
Talkback I will NEVER roam on any UK sim ever again (or until these rip-off charges are outlawed). In addition to making a couple of other short calls and checking my email a few times, I had a £200 bill waiting for me at home.
[September 3, 2006, 3:32]
OLPC To Make XO Laptop Commercially Available
News Laptop batteries can be recharged using a rip cord, a crank, a pedal, a car battery, or solar panels — in fact, anything that can produce between 10 and 20 volts of electricity, OLPC's chief technology officer Mary Lou Jensen told ZDNet.co.uk in...
[September 24, 2007, 17:17]
Rebuilding CA's Bridges
News I think most customers recognise that it's tremendously disruptive to try and rip out the core of their infrastructure. There are other alternatives to all of it, and if you really piss your customers off badly enough, they will go somewhere else.
[February 23, 2005, 15:55]
