Tag: CONTRACT

The U.S. Department of the Interior is currently looking for a company to help construct a new e-mail and collaboration product. According to Google, though, the competition for the lucrative contract isn't exactly fair -- and the company is now going to federal court to prove its point. In a suit filed Friday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the search engine giant alleged that the ...

Paul Ceglia thinks he should own 84-percent of Facebook. And he's not kidding. Last month, the Web designer from New York filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Allegheny County, claiming that he had signed a contract with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 that gave him partial ownership of what would eventually become the world's most popular social networking site. According to prosecutors, ...

Well, we've got to hand it to Verizon. The company is now offering its contract-less "worry-free guarantee" option across almost all of its FiOS markets. New customers can now sign up for Verizon's Internet, phone and TV service without agreeing to a contract, which means they're free to decide month to month whether or not they want to stick with the service. Most impressively, Verizon will ...

Share According to Fox News, Gamestation, a British online video game retailer, recently gained ownership of about 7,500 shoppers' souls by inserting a clause in its terms and conditions. The 'immortal soul' clause read: By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and ...

Need to get out of your cell phone contract but can't afford the termination fee? If the service where you use your phone is spotty, such as at work, in your basement, in a far-flung field, make repeated complaints to customer service and then demand to be let go. Or look at your carrier's coverage map, find where it has none, and tell it you're moving there -- the company is obligated to ...

As expected, Verizon has announced today that its customers (and would-be customers) are welcome to sign up for month-to-month plans with no contract -- and thus, no early-termination fee -- involved, mimicking a move by AT&T earlier in the year. Of course, anyone taking advantage of the new plans won't be able to get in on carrier subsidies (meaning you'll pay $500 for a BlackBerry), but the ...

Trust us when we say we can relate about the horrors of trying to end your cell phone contract early, but also trust us when we say there are better ways to do it than the way Chicago consultant Corey Taylor chose. After reading online that cell phone companies will terminate contracts without a penalty if the person named on the contract dies, Taylor whipped up a fake death certificate and had a ...

Last Friday, we reported that Sprint had dumped "problem customers" who the carrier felt called into its customer service lines too often. The letter, dated June 29, was sent to 1,000 customers notifying them that their contracts would be terminated. It read, "The number of inquiries you have made to us ... has led us to determine that we are unable to meet your current wireless needs." Now, ...