Another day, another tale of IDT Energy Scammers. This one comes from a GL reader who is also a reliable source and contributor about an unwelcome visit: Uggghhhh…. Horrible…. I had a guy come by yesterday nearly two weeks after my first report. Told him to leave. Stared me down and kept...

This came in from Park Slope yesterday afternoon and tells us that (surprise) the slimy energy scammers that have been working their asses off all over Brooklyn trying to rip people off are still out there: “A male-and-female team of IDT Energy reps just rang our door bell (Thursday, 2 p.m.). ...

I've got a new article in Reader's Digest about 9 scams that exploit national trends and how to avoid them. Flimflammers use the same basic scams over and over again, they just use the strips newspaper headlines to layer on like papermache on their chickenwire schemes. My article points out nine rec...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, AutoZone Inc (AZO), H and R Block (HRB), Ciena Corp (CIEN), Kroger Co (KR), Costco Wholesale (COST) Even as the holiday season ramps up and the calendar quarter begins to wind down, earnings reports continue to dribble in. Among the companies scheduled to re...

There are neighborhoods people can fuck with and neighborhoods that they can fuck with that will cause them more grief than others. Park Slope falls into the latter category. Yes, there have been story of IDT energy “scammers” working the Slope. But this email comes to our attention via ...

Here's another report of IDT Energy using the old "We need to make sure you got a discount on your last energy bill, just sign here" tactic to trick people into switching to IDT Energy. In this post written by Amanda, a blogger in the Adirondacks, she describes how a guy with a badge and clipboard s...

“Friend Feed” week seems to be continuing at IDT. But don’t worry, there’s a team of trained attack Bonobo monkeys prepared to take me into a dark alley and beat me up and make me suffer if I don’t stop talking about Friend Feed. What can I say? This is what it looks li...

I’ve sipped the Kool Aid and I’m really liking Friend Feed as a lifestreaming aggregator. One feature that is a bit hard to find is filtering by individual services. I’ve created a Greasemonkey script that sticks a huge bar of icons at the top of the page to make this accessible. I...

The blog posts might have been slow lately, but that’s only because there’s been an accumulation of interesting projects piling up on my hard drive. Here’s a few things that are in the pipe (which I’m talking about to stop my procrastination and force me to release them): San...

Filed under: Speakers While home theater enthusiasts don't typically have a hard time finding equipment to support nearly any multichannel audio arrangement they can envision, IDT is hoping to assist those PC users out there experience the same bliss with new multichannel HD audio codecs. The IDT92H...