Tag: charges
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Google Ordered to Pay $19 Million to Consumers
Google has been ordered to pay $19 Million to consumers by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This is because of unsupervised children making in-app-purchases through Google’s Play Store without their parent’s knowledge and therefore not being granted bill payers permission. It was assumed by the FTC that Google billed these unaware parents unfairly due to […]
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Vodafone World Traveller Avaliable in 8 Countries
It’s always a real pain in the rear when your phone blindsides you with a bucketload of hidden charges on your post-holiday bill. Mostly these are due to data roaming, which in layman’s terms is your phone operator charging you an extra tariff for using your phone abroad. As if you weren’t cash strapped enough […]
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Three Drops Roaming Charges in France, Switzerland, Israel, Finland and Norway
In August last year Three (the mobile network, not the number) decided to remove data roaming charges in 11 countries, the US, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Macau, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland as part of their ‘Feel At Home’ initiative. The scheme allows you to web browse, call and […]
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Square: Smartphone-Based Credit Card Payment Taking System Could Change UK Small Businesses in 2012
An innovative smartphone-based credit card payment system, which was devised for small Stateside companies by one of Twitter’s business-savvy co-founders Jack Dorsey, is starting to make big waves overseas. Square works with the simple combination of a credit card, a smartphone and an app – as well as a clever little clip on strip reader […]
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Tablet roaming charges potentially reach 1000 times normal costs
Research from Which? has been carried out to further explain the myriad of costs, terms, conditions and small print associated with taking your 3G tablet across the border, and frankly, it would be easier to take your pet. Certainly cheaper too. Apparently, in the UK a Gigabyte of internet data (estimated around 350 songs downloaded) […]