I had an interesting new checkout experience today using MasterCard’s competitor to V.me and PayPal, MasterPass. When I entered my email address as part of the checkout process the text “Hello Angela” greeted me back. Obviously not what I expected! Initially I suspected someone must have used my email address to create their wallet account.
May 2, 1012: A late update that WooThemes eventually did understand my position which was shared by a few others and monthly prices for existing customers didn’t increase when new sign ups did at the beginning of this year. A big kudo to WooThemes for realizing the value in their long-supporting customers! This is a classic example of how startups and growing…
My response to a recent person on the Apple community forums: There are no limitations in the 30 day trial. As to choice, here’s the deal: In the US, most large media companies are trying to pressure Canada to change our laws to make things like backing up a DVD or ripping a CD illegal (same crap they’re trying to pull in…
A short while ago after doing some personal investigation I wrote a post about VIAddress. At the time I had no idea just how many other people were affected by the business practices of this company, or what a string of events would end up occurring. I originally started this quest when I was planning to write a blog series on various…
The popular mail drop provider VIAddress.com — who had in the past been under some scrutiny by its clients for changing higher shipping rates than would be normal for shipments around the world (1) — has been quarantined by the USPS due to not following postal regulations. All packages sent to VIAddress are currently being held by USPS (a local postal worker…
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather then having Internet Explorer installed as the…
A recent PCworld story, suggests in a measure to prevent hardware modding (which does have fair use purposes as well, such as making backups of content) they have banned up to a million Xbox 360 consoles from the Xbox LIVE service, and may have rendered the machines mainly unusable. DailyTech’s sources claim the ban blocks game installations to the hard drive and…