• Wal-Mart is embarking on a sweeping campaign to offer extensive and intensive business training for small businesses around its urban stores, a PR stunt on the order of “Restaurant Cooks World’s Largest Pancake.” Except, of course, this pancake has immigrant babies grilled in it.
• NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer filed suit today against Direct Revenue for installing spyware on people’s computers that filled them with pop-ups. Man, some people will stoop to anything to become governor.
• A report issued by the Government Accountability Office surveying returns filed at tax return preparation commercial chains found errors on every single one of the 19 returns tested by its undercover operatives. 19 returns, eh? Some sample size. Guess the government doesn’t like doing its taxes, either.
• And in the Stick a Fork in It, It’s Done Department: Netflix sued Blockbuster yesterday, claiming infringement against several of its innovations, such as no-late fees and wish-lists.
• In a case of the bacon frying the grease, a CBS journalist who exposed police intimidation against citizens attempting to file complaints has, in a retaliatory tactic by Florida Police, had his name and personal information put on the top of a online police BOLO (Be On the Lookout) list.
• Recording industry’s legal strongarm tells a student to drop out of MIT to pay her copyright infringement settlement, student claims. Does the RIAA‘s evil know no bounds? No? Okay, good, didn’t think so.

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