There’s a new company out there that is dedicated to helping its customers spot unauthorized or suspicious activities on their credit cards. The company is called BillGuard and its service is free. BillGuard scans credit card activity for charges that you may not be aware of. It gathers data about potential unwanted charges by drawing from its database of users. It also uses complaints raised on Facebook, Twitter and the Better Business Bureau to help in its flagging process.

AT&T is being accused of “systematically” overcharging iPhone and 3G iPad owners for data usage. This had led to a class action lawsuit against AT&T. A story from MSNBC spoke of lawyers who spent $80,000 on an unnamed computer firm. The firm’s job was to monitor data usage from iPhones and iPads and compare the results to the bill that was eventually provided by AT&T. The results were quite staggering.

As of last year T-Mobile began allowing customers to make a purchase from the Android Market and have the purchase billed to their monthly account. And since then they have remained the only carrier that supports carrier billing. Basically, this means Android users would no longer need to have a Google Checkout account with their more »

If you are a heavy user of high-speed Internet, your happy days of peer-to-peer downloading might soon be over. Time Warner Cable, currently the second largest U.S. cable operator, plans to shift from the standard flat fee to a usage-based billing scheme. The Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas are the chosen guinea pigs for the more »