Archive for the 'Legal' Category

My complaint about Rogers to the CRTC, and their response

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The power that Rogers exert in the market for wireless, wireless data and broadband internet is utterly ridiculous. The competitive situation for these services in Canada has always been poor, but the situation was made much worse when they bought Microcell.
Since we’ve had GSM monopoly the ONLY way to use innovative GSM products is through […]

Rogers steals search traffic intended for Microsoft

Monday, July 21st, 2008

If Rogers’ questionable policy of redirecting DNS misses wasn’t already enough, this has got to be:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20824864-URL-Manipulation
What Rogers has done is review the URL structure used by this feature when using the Microsoft Live.com search provider. This particular provider takes what is typed into the address bar, when DNS name resolution fails redirects your entry too:
»search.live.com/results.aspx?q=y···-Address
The […]

iDateCorp / Quetchup doesn’t address privacy

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I found it ironic that my cease and desist email to idatecorp re: quetchup failed. Maybe they are beyond hope?
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
privacy@idatecorp.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table

That said, I left a voicemail with […]