February 12th, 2011 :: Year 8, Issue 5

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Followups

* Homeopathy: Randi puts his money where his mouth is. Watch (a youtube video of) James Randi, ex-stage magician and sceptic-at-large offering $1,000,000 to anyone who can produce a valid study showing homeopathy superior to placebo. Thus far, we have no winners….

* Bell Bites Bigtime on UBB. Bell Canada has removed the tool it uses to monitor consumers’ Internet data usage and started reversing charges to some customers… Furore over the usage-based billing (UBB) issue reached new heights Wednesday after the company posted an acknowledgment that the online tool —meant to allow customers to track data usage so they don’t go over their monthly cap — was faulty…. Bell customers complained that the Internet usage tracker was overestimating their Internet use by between 50 and 200 per cent. [Unrelated news: Bell profits up over 25%]







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