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22 May 2009 12:32

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Biz, U.S.: Warranty expired: A massive telemarketing scam, uprooted

  • scam In case you’ve ever gotten an automated call from a telemarketer telling you that your vehicle warranty is about to expire (even when it wasn’t), it’s a scam, one that the Federal Trade Commission shut down last week.
  • scale This was a big one. 30,000 complaints were received by the FTC. The Florida companies apparently called tens of millions of people a week. And it was completely an attempt to bilk customers out of money. source

30 Mar 2009 22:20

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Tech: Got an iPhone? Lacking morals & money? Try out app piracy

  • level A quarter of the App Store’s 25,000 programs have been cracked to run for free.
  • ease A single 5.4-gigabyte torrent file includes 808 cracked apps for you to use.
  • usage The maker of one popular pay app, BeeJive, says 60% of its users have a pirated version.
  • why? Users of cracked apps say they do it because you can’t try the apps first. source

16 Feb 2009 21:51

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Offbeat, Tech: You can count on this iPhone app getting your legs broken

A new card-counting iPhone app has casinos on guard for cheating gamblers. source

03 Feb 2009 07:29

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Sports: Is it that big a deal that Michael Phelps was caught with a bong?

  • 42% of Americans have smoked pot before, including him source

02 Jan 2009 15:01

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Tech: This guy’s a regular Walt Mossberg

  • I’m using this OS as I type. Looks like it’s OK to me, not too much different than Vista but a few new items.
  • The Pirate Bay user al966g • on a beta copy of Microsoft Windows 7.0 which washed ashore on the site this week • source