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Crime

Jason Calacanis says either fight or submit to Apple on Podcasting

I went to the mailbox today wondering if I was going to get a cease and desist letter from the folks at Apple, my month has been pretty bad it would have just added a little more fuel to the fire. I have been playing through my head what the first course of action would be. Well there was nothing

Zero Day Emergency Response Team

Being Microsoft has been extremely reckless and slow to respond a very dangerous exploit in the wild a team known at the "Zero Day Emergency Response Team" has reverse engineered the bug and has released a patch, while Microsoft is stuck in the mud. The question I have is if a group of people can release a patch that fixes

WAL-MART Threatens Studios Over DVD Downloads

Well the folks at Walmart are going to play hard ball. Personally I hate Wal-Mart as they have been responsible for more economic devastation to small towns in America than any other retailer. Here is what they are up to now. "Wal-Mart has told some of Hollywood's biggest players it will retaliate against them for selling movies on Apple's iTunes."

Does Zune Music Sales Technology Steal from WeedShare

I got a curious e-mail today that linked me to an apparent 2006 Microsoft paper that outlines a music sales mechanism that appears to be mimicking what will be used by Microsoft for the Zune player. It's a pretty simple model, you download a music track for free, listen to it up to 3 times, and on the 4th you

Don’t drop your iPod in the Toilet at 35,000 feet!

Want to see how accidentally dropping your iPod in the Toilet and not noticing until after the flight attendant found it on a flight to Ottawa can land you in hot water. [forums.worldofwarcraft.com] [Canada.com] This one will definitely have to be prefaced with a believe it or not! This is the post from the World of Warcraft Forums in case

Beware of a company called InvestUK Publishing!

I want to give fair warning to any individual or company that is or is considering doing any business with InvestUK Publishing. Insure you get 100% of your money up front. I have been dealing with this company for months on a breach of contract for services that were rendered. InvestUK Publishing has defaulted on multiple thousands of dollars in

Verizon implements questionable surcharge that is really a Rate Hike!

Last week one of the readers to this blog and a listener of the podcast sent me e-mail about a new surcharge that Verizon is charging it's DSL-Only subscribers, I covered it in the podcast but not on the blog, well it seems the story has made it onto the radar screen of other blogs and news wires. Last year