I recently booked a rental car on Priceline.com, thinking I had saved a few dollars. I always make sure I uncheck any obscure checkboxes during the checkout process so that I don’t inadvertently provide legitimation for sending me unwanted emails. Today, hardly a week later, I got several hundreds of emails from Priceline.
Over 11 Million views in two days is quite a feat.
A data breach at a little-known entity that affected companies from J.P. Morgan ChaseJPM -0.02% & Co. to TiVo Inc. TIVO -2.79% is shining a light on the outsourcing of email marketing campaigns, a practice that has grown steadily over the past decade as consumers become less responsive to commercial pitches.
Nothing good can come of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. This will lead to essentially a 2-player cell phone market (Verizon and AT&T). Some quotes taken from various news articles: “We know the results of arrangements like this — higher prices, fewer choices, less innovation.” (Public Knowledge president Gigi Sohn). “AT&T will [...]
Pop-under ads are browser windows that open in the background while you view a web site. Boston.com was on of the first sites to start using this technique almost 10 years ago, and it is still as annoying today as it was back then. Why is it annoying? Because when you close the original browser [...]
When an email announced the availability of tickets for the Cirque de Soleil Ovo show in Boston at a 45% discount (I had not heard of this show before), I became curious and checked out the website. The email (it came from Travelzoo.com, i.e. a neutral 3rd party) also mentioned an $8 fee per ticket [...]
1 minute for my new rack NAS from Arizona to Massachusetts – this has to be a new record.
I just googled something along the lines of the subject, because I am sitting at my computer doing stuff, but would like to know the score and watch the game a little. I dug through about 3 pages of Google search results that contained nothing but spam and content specifically tailored to attract people in [...]
I upgraded my FIOS service at home from 5/1 Mbps to 25/25 Mbps for almost the same cost ($10 more). This was a while ago, but for the first time today I actually measured transfer rates close to the nominal speed. I am not using the ActionTec router, but a Netgate M1n1wall running pfSense that [...]
The latest DVD from my Netflix queue came in the mail today, The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I noticed that the DVD infringes on my privacy in a questionable way. There is a web page on the disk that, when loaded into a browser, will request an image from digitalcopy.warnerbros.com. This [...]
