Wrong Ad Number Brings Couple Headaches
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PITTSFORD, Vt. - John and Patricia O'Connell don't own a BMW but people all over the country think they do. Hundreds of people have been calling them hoping to buy a 2005 BMW 325i.
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Microsoft has been rapped over the knuckles over an anti-Linux ad campaign. The ASA in the UK has ruled that the ad makes &quot;misleading&quot; claims, and has told the company change the copy on the advertisement forthwith.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Media, Marc Abshire of NeuStar, Inc., +1-571-434-5151, marc.abshire@NeuStar.biz   STERLING, Va., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeuStar, Inc.
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Glimpses of advertising are now being tallied down to the second.
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Ads served to search query results based on category rather than keywords.
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And now HP wants to help them target us with ads Ninety-five percent of mobile services fail in the market - and it's thanks to greedy network operators who have treated their customers as a lumpen mass.â¦
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Update fixes crashes caused by incompatibility with hidden advertising app.
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Yesterday a funny thing happened with a package on its way from Amazon to me. Today they found it and it went on the truck "out for delivery." I waited and waited, but alas, it never arrived.  And the other package took a similar trip. Dallas to Rockford to Oakland to San Pablo to Lost by Carrier. Oy oy oy.   0 for 2, Amazon. :-(
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Rip-off alert will give you a chance to hang up Telecoms regulator Ofcom has ordered that from September, callers to so-called "personal numbers", which start with the digits 070, must hear a warning on the call's cost for free before being connected if the call will cost more than 20 pence.â¦
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In the Internet age, making telephone contact with a human for customer service is a daunting task. But some consumers have found ways around the blockade.
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Like it or not, ads are coming to RSS. Sending information only to those who want it might be a way to keep subscribers from rioting. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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During the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission has filed deceptive- advertising cases against two distributors of what is called adware or spyware. The insidious form of software subjects consumers and their computers to unwanted advertising and surveillance.
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To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: Gregg Perry, +1-401-351-5200, Mike Tetuan, +1-202-207- 3638, or Dale Leibach, +1-202-207-3630, all of Prism Public Affairs, for Millennium Holdings, LLC, NL Industries, Inc., and The Sherwin- Williams Company   PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb.
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Passengers are being mistakenly stopped. Is the list more annoying than effective?
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Internet advertisers face a new enemy: people who click on ads with no intention of buying.
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Think twice before assuming you're using the right card.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.