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R.I.P. Free Cellphone Games
The age of free cellphone games is dead, killed by the greedy profit gluttons in charge of major cellphone companies. One ambitious Slate writer set out to find a phone with "a good selection of games." He failed, even after visiting five carriers.In the early part of this decade, cell phones started to become less about the phone call and more about the ring tone. Mobile-gaming types began to realize two things.More »
travel
United CEO Weighs Fees For Speedy Luggage Delivery
United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton is determined to wring added lucre from his now-profitable airline. Tilton is considering 250 unpopular ideas, such as charging economy-class passengers a fee to avoid receiving their luggage last, and spinning off United's already wounded frequent flier program, Mileage Plus.United appears to be following a strategy set by Air Canada, which gained billions of dollars after it emerged from bankruptcy in 2004 by spinning off its maintenance division and frequent-flier program into separate businesses, analysts say.More »
greed
Disney Will Stop Making Painfully Embarrassing, Awful Direct To DVD Sequels, And You Can Stop Buying Them
Disney will discontinue their line of painfully embarrassing and awful direct to DVD sequels on the recommendation of Steve Jobs, according to MacWorld. We consider this a coup for parents, because no one older than 8 likes these steaming hunks of crap, yet they are extremely commercially successful. More »
greed
Smashing Pumpkins: Title Track Of New CD Is Target Exclusive
Here's something of a "eff you" to consumers, according to Pitchfork Media. More »
fraud
Mortgage Fraud Festered Under Housing Bubble, Feds Investigate
In '05, a small company bought up run-down duplexes in northeast Indiana at $50,000 a pop. Less than a month later, they were selling them for $120,000 to church secretaries, truckers, retirees and factory workers. More »
complaints
Verizon Shoots Foot to Spite Face
Like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a cellphone to work the way its supposed to, some users can't get high-rez pictures off their high-end Verizon phones. To protect its "Get It Now" multimedia revenue model Verizon cripples the Motorola's capabilities by implementing a 300kbps transfer limit. More »
scam
UPDATE: Don't Take Any Wooden Flat Screens
Yesterday, we reported on Indiana residents who were duped into buying flat-screen tvs on the street that, upon opening at home, ended up being oven doors. How could anyone be duped by such an inane ruse, we asked ourselves, chomping cigars in our pleather armchairs. Below, detail of the packaging used to wrap the oven doors. More »
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