Apple doesn’t want your cash… At least not for iPhones
Oct272007 1:45AM — JohnIn a hopeless effort to stop the resale of unlocked iPhone, Apple has introduced a new policy limiting customers to both paying with a credit or debit card and limiting sales to 2 iPhones per person. Apple estimates that over a quarter million of the 1.4 million iPhones sold have been unlocked causing then substantial financial losses as AT&T pays Apple monthly for each iPhone service plan sold. 
Beware of OiNK scams, any site collecting money on behalf of OiNK
Oct262007 8:28PM — JohnThere are currently NO authorized websites that are working on behalf of OiNK to collect money for a new tracker or legal fees, this has been confirmed with Mr. OiNK himself. DO NOT give any of these sites money.
SanDisk sues everyone, kills Woot
Oct252007 5:14PM — JohnSanDisk is suing 25 companies with products ranging from flash media card to mp3 players, refusing to cite the actual patents violated in their press release. They’re also attempting to use the ITC loophole, a loophole that allows patent holders to circumvent a Supreme Court ruling
Verizon eats crow, pays users for capping “unlimited” usage
Oct242007 7:14PM — JohnVersion has agreed to “reimburse the terminated subscribers for the cost of the laptop cards or laptop-connected cellphones” for users who were terminated for breaching the invisible ceiling on their “unlimited” usage plans for the companies mobile broadband services, a cap that is reported be as low as 5GB per month.
Amazon pattents search strings, seriously
Oct232007 7:59PM — JohnAmazon has been granted a patent for appending a search term to a URL without special formatting such as this. would take you to a page with search results concurrent with Amazon’s recent activities.
OiNK misreporting, propaganda continues
Oct232007 7:25PM — JohnAlmost all of the major news sources are misreporting the facts of the case in regards to the function and purpose of OiNK claiming that the site was “for-pay” or subscription based and “hosted copyright music on the server” when the site was COMPLETELY donation based and NEVER hosted files on the server
OiNK shutdown, servers raided, admin arrested curtesy of the IFPI
Oct232007 6:20AM — JohnThe hugely popular invite-only p2p music site OiNK was shut down by British and Dutch police in conjunction with the IFPI after a 2 year on-going investigation. Several data centers in Amsterdam were raided, servers seized and the sites proprietor, a 24 year old IT worker, arrested.
Anyone else want to sue Vonage while AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, god are at it?
Oct222007 11:33PM — JohnNot only does Vonage have to deal with Verizon suing them over claims that their over-broad patents that shouldn’t have been granted in the first place were violated, they have to deal with the Death Star, AT&T, suing over even more obvious (read: invalid) patents related to “Packet based telephony”, because apparently using the internet to transfer data is new.
thanks a million - it was very irritating problem, it is resolved with your suggestion.