Soosed News Patrol

Sometimes I feel I don't know anything about the business world, and today is one of those times. I feel like insulting my industry might be a bad idea, but then again, I'm not a rich CEO.

'"We're boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play," EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello told the Wall Street Journal in a story posted on its Web site on Sunday.'

Imagine a world ruled by carrot juice. Now imagine the top company is United Carrots. The head of United Carrots one day comes out an says "you know I really think carrots aren't that great." I doubt that would go over too well. Especially to all the people that worked for United Carrots.

I figured carrot juice was a good analogy instead of something related or relevant to the situation. I'm clever like that. I'm going to go play NHL98 now.

Sprint, the US's 3rd largest wireless provider, has decided to cut off service to more than 1000 of their customers. For being annoying.

"Sprint Nextel Corp, which recently launched an advertising campaign to attract new customers, is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers for calling its customer service lines too often and making what the company called unreasonable requests."

Oh what is a few annoying calls here and there?

"In some cases they were calling customer care hundreds of times a month for a period of six to 12 months on the same issues"

Sprint apparently has some budding stalkers as well:

"Singleton said some of the cancellations involved customers who repeatedly asked for information about other people's accounts."

Maybe they should be calling the police instead.