• Would-be iPhone scalper mom buys kid’s 1st place in line for $800, thinking she could buy $100,000 worth of iPhones and flip them on eBay. Too bad the limit was one per customer.

• To promote the upcoming film “The Simpsons” select 7-11 stores were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts.

• User’s XBox 360’s media-streaming fails to work, but that seems to be ok with Microsoft.

• The new Consumerist blog format. What do you think?

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