Some times it really hurts some one by being over cautious.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Man gets $27,000 phone bill after watching Bears game on web--By Chris Chase
Becareful with roaming accounts
Source: Yahoo
On November 2, Wayne Burdick (not pictured) was aboard a cruise ship in Miami waiting to depart on a Caribbean cruise. While still docked at the port, he set up his laptop and wireless card and accessed his Slingbox device which allowed him to watch a Chicago Bears game via an Internet connection. When the game was over, Burdick closed his computer, embarked on the cruise and returned home to finda bill from AT&T charging him over $27,000 for the three hours of Internet usage.
Apparently, AT&T had charged Brudick the international rate for the access. At two cents per kilobyte, the total charge was $27,788.93 for the time spent watching the game, which breaks down to about $6,500 per Rex Grossmaninterception.
Burdick pled his case to AT&T, saying he was still at the port and not in roaming territory. After speaking with nearly a half-dozen people at the company, he managed to get the bill down to $6,000, even though he provided documentation that he was still technically in Miami at the time he used his wireless card.
Eventually, the whole matter was settled after Burdick contacted Team Fixer at the Chicago Sun-Timesand they contacted the phone company. AT&T acknowledged its mistake, saying that Burdick's device was picking up a signal it shouldn't have been.
At least Burdick's efforts were worth it. The Bears beat the Lions that afternoon, 27-23.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
2 Oscars for A R Rahman, 8 for Slumdog
Slumdog Millionaire' sweeps eight Oscars at the 81 st Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography,
Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Direction and Motion Picture. Indian music maestro A R Rahman brings home two awards with his Jai Ho... composition.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
This is the time
This moment sits at the intersection of the best of your past achievements and the best of your future possibilities. What a powerful combination that can be.
This moment has already begun. And you can determine how it ends.
Look back at what has brought you to this moment and find something for which to be sincerely grateful. Look forward from this moment and find something that will enable you to realize your deepest purpose and fill your world with joy.
Then make use of this moment to tie those two things together. Put your richest blessings to work so that they can move you toward your fondest dreams.
This is the time to make that connection. This is the time for you to live and to act, to think, to feel, to experience and to move gratefully toward your richest possibilities.
The best of what your life has been is alive in this moment, ready to carry you forward. And the best of what's to come is ready to be fulfilled.
-- Ralph Marston
Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline
It’s easy to downplay Gmail as an enterprise email solution — it’s only available as webmail, and if the internet goes down, so does your email.
When Google Gears was launched, people began looking forward to the day when Gmail would become an offline application. Today it happened —Gmail can now be used outside the cloud if you wish.
I still can’t see the feature, but Google announced it today on the Google Enterprise blog. The feature is said to be available immediately in Google Apps, and will be rolling out gradually for all Gmail users.
To enable the new feature, should you have it, follow these steps:
- Sign in to Gmail and click ‘Settings’.
- Click the ‘Labs’ tab and select ‘Enable’ next to ‘Offline Gmail’.
- Click ‘Save Changes.’
- In the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username, there will be a new ‘Offline’ link.
- Click this link to start the offline synchronization process.
What makes this possible is something called Google Gears. Gears is available on all modern browsers as an addon, with the exception of Chrome which has it built right in.
Let’s hear what you think about this new feature — do you think it will it put more pressure on Outlook?
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