March 2009
3 posts
Finding a happy media(um)
This post started as a rant about how Netflix announced a rather large price hike for Blu-ray disk rentals. Starting in late April, access to Blu-ray disks will cost an additional $5 a month (up from $1/month) on the 4-at-a-time plan. While their timing is simply perfect - I purchased a Blu-ray player about a month ago - Netflix is claiming that the increase is due to the increased cost of Blu-ray...
GrandCentral is back! →
GrandCentral is a service I’ve blogged about before. It was a web-based service that assigned you a single phone number, and allowed it to be forwarded to other numbers. Calls could be routed based on caller, and the service had other great features like visual voicemail.
Google purchased the developer a few years back, and the service seemed to stagnate. Today, however, Google announced...
Impressed with Comcast
I know, the headline is hard to believe. I just found a problem on my Comcast bill and decided to give their online chat service a try.
A agent was connected to me nearly immediately, didn’t type entirely from a script, and knew what she was talking about. Further, I got a six month promotional discount that will save me about $40 month on my bill.
Comcast has historically not had the best...