News From, The Consumerists -

We don’t mean to influence the "Worst Company In America" voting, but check this out: if you call Comcast and ask them to stop sending you anything other than your bill, they’ll agree but quietly slap you with a $1.99 "change of service" fee. Like most made-up, totally indefensible fees from [...]

Google is partnering up with San Francisco to give all the homeless people a lifelong phone number and voicemail, if they choose to accept it. Google is using the GrandCentral service to allow homeless people to keep connected with the world, but more importantly to be able to have a number they can use to [...]