So It's....
...iPod - iPhone - iPad - iResign - What next ???
Posts by Willum08
27 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2010
Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty
TalkTalk posts jolly six months
Wednesday 17th November 2010 12:32 GMT 
TalkTalk Crap
For the past few years I was with Tiscali and because my speed was not too good, I registered in early June 2010 with TalkTalk to upgrade my package and get a better speed. Lots of promises made during telephone registration and was told that there would be 'No Problems', I could keep my telephone number and would be 'up and running in a week or so'.
June went by and nothing, so I phoned TalkTalk 'Customer help' number (an 0845 job). After the ususal 'Press one for ....., press two for ..... etc. and waiting on the line for about 25 minutes listening to what just about passes for 'music', I finally got through to a human being - albeit in Mumbai I think. I explained my situation and after confirming my telephone number and answering 'security' questions, I was eventually told that I was speaking to Tiscali Customer Service and they could not help me - despite having used the TalkTalk telephone number quoted on their website. I was asked to hold, while I was put through to TalkTalk customer service...... More 'music' and another 5 minute wait, after which there was a continuous tone and then the line went dead !! You would have thought that they might have called me back, since they had my telephone number - No chance!
I gave up on the phone 'Help' line and decided to try via email to get a progress report on my update. Over the following three months, I sent around 30 emails to Tiscali/TalkTalk and the only replies I got from several diiferent people were apologies and platitudes but no offer of action to resolve my issue. Basically, Tiscali were saying that the problem lay with TalkTalk and TalkTalk were saying it was Tiscali's problem, so I was getting nowhere fast!!
I then decided to write to their chief executive and the senior director of TalkTalk customer services. I addressed the envelopes to them personally and sent them 'Signed for' delivery. Guess what - not even an acknowledgement of my letters. No surprise there then !
So, I have now ditched Tiscali/TalkTalk/Carphone Warehouse and gone with BT and I am taking every opportunity I can, to relate my experience with that bunch of TalkTalk CRAP!!
My Tiscali / TalkTalk speed was around 1.8Mbps and now with BT, I'm getting around 6.3Mbps....
TalkTalk etc. - Avoid them like the plague..............
TalkTalk reveals faster broadband plans
Sunday 10th October 2010 13:33 GMT
Talk Talk Crap
For the past few years I was with Tiscali and because my speed was not too good, I registered in early June with TalkTalk (Tiscali is part of TalkTalk and Carphone warehouse) to upgrade my package and get a better speed. Lots of promises made during telephone registration and was told that there would be 'No Problems', I could keep my telephone number and would be 'up and running in a week or so'.
June went by and nothing, so I phoned TalkTalk 'Customer help' number (an 0845 job). After the ususal 'Press one for ....., press two for ..... etc. and waiting on the line for about 25 minutes listening to what just about passes for 'music', I finally got through to a human being - albeit in Mumbai I think. I explained my situation and after confirming my telephone number and answering 'security' questions, I was eventually told that I was speaking to Tiscali Customer Service and they could not help me - despite having used the TalkTalk telephone number quoted on their website. I was asked to hold, while I was put through to TalkTalk customer service...... More 'music' and another 5 minute wait, after which there was a continuous tone and then the line went dead !! You would have thought that they might have called me back, since they had my telephone number - No chance!
I gave up on the phone 'Help' line and decided to try via email to get a progress report on my update. Over the following three months, I sent around 30 emails to Tiscali/TalkTalk and the only replies I got from several diiferent people were apologies and platitudes but no offer of action to resolve my issue. Basically, Tiscali were saying that the problem lay with TalkTalk and TalkTalk were saying it was Tiscali's problem, so I was getting nowhere fast!!
I then decided to write to their chief executive and the senior director of TalkTalk customer services. I addressed the envelopes to them personally and sent them 'Signed for' delivery. Guess what - not even an acknowledgement of my letters. No surprise there then !
So, I have now ditched Tiscali/TalkTalk/Carphone Warehouse and gone with another ISP and I am taking every opportunity I can, to relate my experience with that bunch of CRAP!!
TalkTalk etc. - Avoid them like the plague..............
Pope makes central London no-go zone for BT engineers
Blighty suffers 'real shortage of serviceable conkers'
Nigerian man gets 12 years for $1.3m 419 scam
Monday 6th September 2010 11:13 GMT 
I cannot believe....
..that after all the publicity about scammers, some people are still so gullable.....
For a good laugh about how one guy treated some of the 419ers, read the following small book : "Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers" by Bob Servant
Apple sued over hot iPad shutdowns
Apple 'stunned' by iProduct demand
Apple swaps good iPhones for bad, say fanbois
Thursday 15th July 2010 10:17 GMT
What a load of CRAP!!
Apple are now saying it's discovered why there's what it describes as a "dramatic drop in bars" when users hold the phone in a certain way.
It turns out that throughout its history, the software used by the iPhone has been exaggerating the strength of the signal. "We were stunned to find the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength has been wrong," says the letter.
It goes on to explain that iPhone 4 users who've seen their signal drop away from five bars to nothing may actually have been in an area where they were lucky to get any signal at all. Now Apple is promising a software update for all users which it says will give them a much more accurate read-out of reception.
Pressure mounts on Apple to recall iPhone 4
World Cup meltdown fails to materialise
Apple seeks antenna engineers after 'Death Grip' debacle
Clamshell dinner – Jobs and iPad munch netbook sales
Wednesday 16th June 2010 12:02 GMT 
So that's where they went.....
Quote " DisplaySearch says that Apple shipped 700,000 iPads into the channel during Q1"
Would that be The English Channel ? (For the uninitiated - it's the stretch of water between the South of England and France) Good place for them.......
Give me a Netbook every time rather than an overpriced 'Fondle Slab'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
