http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010706/wr/airlines_orbitz_dc_1.html Friday July 6 3:48 PM ET Southwest Pulls Listings From Orbitz Site WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Low-fare carrier Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV – news) said on Friday it had launched a new...
Wow! Thought I¹d update you on my progress trying to be an Orbitz customer (UserID orbitz [at] ianbell [dot] com). After 97 minutes on hold (plus the additional 40 minutes from my first attempt) I finally spoke to a woman in your Indian call center who was doing her...
—— Forwarded Message From: Ian Andrew Bell Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:31:37 -0700 To: Jeffrey Katz, CEO Orbitz , Alex Zoghlin, CTO Orbitz , Carol Jouzaitis, PR Orbitz Subject: FW: Your customer experience is, if this is possible, even worse than actually...
…as told to Fucked Company: Another Idealab Company going under? eVoice Rumor has it that eVoice is going out of business. We’re in a similar business and one of our busdev guys heard this from one of our competitors. The folks at eVoice are / were so...
Of course, it wasn’t rocket science. >From FuckedCompany: 720 was a rad video game Optical networker 360Networks declared bankruptcy and eliminated 800 positions worldwide. When: 7/2/2001 Company: 360Networks Severity: 100 – new hall of fame inductee!...
Us Canadians take it for granted that the incumbent local carriers (TELUS, Bell Canada, Sasktel, et al) offer Long-Distance services to their customers and are the default carriers. Not so in the US, where the big breakup in 1981 meant that the entire LD pie went to...
—— Forwarded Message From: rudy rouhana Reply-To: rudy [at] rouhana [dot] com Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:39:50 -0700 (PDT) To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: Re: Bush Thanks Gates for Election Donations… I have always maintained that one of the...
In a FOIB posting several years ago I pointed out that perhaps Microsoft’s biggest crime of the last decade was in not playing ball with the big kids along the shores of the Delaware. Up until 1998 they had no lobbyists, made no campaign donations, and (except...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
