Akamai’s top 10 worldwide best average internet connection speeds for the end of 2014. It’s that time again! Internet company Akamai keeps ...
Amateur Uber Drivers Can Stay On French Roads For Now
( ChrisGoldNY ) We need some kind of global scoreboard to keep track of which Uber services are legal in which municipality. Surely there is...
Time Warner Cable Hates Dodgers Fans, Tells Them To Switch To Cable Companies They Can’t Get
( Atwater Village Newbie ) Baseball season is only days away, and the L.A. Dodgers are fresh off a 94-win division title season. Yet a larg...
Amazon Introducing The Dash Button, A Branded Gadget That Reorders Household Products With A Push
( Amazon on YouTube ) Reaching for another roll of paper towels in the pantry only to find you’ve run out just when little Timmy has flung ...
Police: Man Called 9-1-1 A Dozen Times Claiming Bar Overcharged Him For Beer
( kevindean ) Will calling emergency services repeatedly about a bar bill summon the cops? Sure, but they won’t be helping to sort out whet...
You Can Now Turn Any Google Map Into A Pac-Man Game
Pac-Man eats his way through the Gray’s Ferry section of Philadelphia. Have you ever looked at a Google Map and thought to yourself, “It wo...
Study: People Try Apple Pay Once, Don’t Go Back
( Colin ) The prospect of using our phones in place of wallets is exciting to absent-minded people everywhere, but how well is adoption of m...
Court Awards Pizza Hut Customer $2,400 For Denture Damaged While Eating “Excessively Hard Croutons”
(Not the Pizza Hut in question. SchuminWeb ) While the human mouth gets to have all the fun of tasting, chewing and eating delicious food i...
Starbucks Finally Gets Around To Selling Yogurt-Based Cups, Smoothies, Parfaits After Two Years
The unlikely partnership between Starbucks and Dannon parent company Danone that Consumerist first reported on back in 2013 is finally com...
Man Who Says Comcast Got Him Fired From Job Seeks $5M In Damages After Company Smeared Him Publicly
( honeylamb ) Last fall, we were the first to tell you about Conal O’Rourke, the Comcast customer in California who spent more than a year ...
Dietitian Group’s “Kids Eat Right” Logo Won’t Be On Kraft Singles Packages After All
( JeepersMedia ) Kraft Singles won’t come with a stamp from the Academy of Nutrition and Diatetics reading “Kids Eat Right” anymore, after ...
High-End Online Retailers Net-A-Porter, Yoox Officially Tie The Knot
It seems like just yesterday we were dreaming of a mega-luxury online retail platform where we could buy all the designer brands our walle...
Charter Digs This Whole Cable Merger Thing, Plans To Buy Bright House For $10.4B
In cable, merger mania isn’t just for the biggest players. The next tier down wants to play, too. And so we have the announcement this morn...
Ticketmaster Says It Stands For “True Fan-Friendly Competition”
Over the weekend, StubHub filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors , alleging that the team and the ticket ...
McDonald’s Introduces Table Service In Germany For Some Reason
( Mike Mozart ) Imagine that you’re visiting a large restaurant at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. You take a seat and give your order to...
Distracted Drivers Admit To Playing Guitar, Taking Selfies Behind The Wheel
( Great Beyond ) Texting while driving isn’t the only distracting activity drivers are partaking in behind the wheel while they should be p...
Best Buy Closes Future Shop Stores, Will Turn Half Into Best Buys
( Jamie McCaffrey ) Future Shop is the best name ever given to an electronics retailer, and also a chain in Canada that for the last 14 year...
“Bad Check” Debt Collector Deceptively Used Prosecutors’ Letterhead To Intimidate Consumers Into Paying High Fees
( David Goehring ) Late last year, Consumerist reported on a string of debt collectors paying to use prosecutors’ letterheads as a way to...
Tesla To Unveil Something “Major” April 30, But Not A New Car
That Elon sure does know how to tease… (via Twitter ) Earlier today, Tesla founder and Twitter tease Elon Musk announced that his company w...
Sling TV Users Finding Some Shows Are Now Being Blocked From Streaming
( imgur ) TV production and distribution is a complicated entanglement of interests involving studios, distributors, networks, and pay-TV s...
Have A RadioShack Gift Card? You Have One More Day To Use It
(JeepersMedia) We initially reported that people with RadioShack gift cards would have to use them up by March 5 or lose the entire balance....
Utah Restaurant Owner Removes Over-Sized Genitalia From Bull Sign After Uproar
( pjseeger ) The owner of a steakhouse who added an extra-large genital enhancement to the bull on the restaurant’s sign says he’s removing...