Archive for December, 2014

Comcast sued for turning home Wi-Fi routers into public hotspots

By Benny Evangelista   Updated 8:38 pm, Monday, December 8, 2014 Two East Bay residents are suing Comcast for plugging their home’s wireless router into what they call a power-wasting, Internet-clogging, privacy threatening network of public Wi-Fi hotspots. The class-action suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of Toyer Grear and […]

Ontario: Smart Meters continue to be stupid

Toronto Sun   BY CHRISTINA BLIZZARD, QMI AGENCY FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2014 03:58 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2014 04:11 PM EST   Turns out Smart Meters were a really dumb idea. Who knew? Well, beleaguered homeowners desperately trying to pay their skyrocketing hydro bills certainly had a pretty good idea. Now […]

Would you pay $75 to drop smart meter?

By Morgan Lee   5:43 P.M. DEC. 5, 2014       Updated 5:50 P.M. California regulators are ready to deliver a bill to utility customers who want to get rid of “smart” meters that transmit data continuously about household consumption of electricity and natural gas. After years of deliberations, utility regulators said this week that they […]

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