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CNN Anchor Caught with Drugs

Apparently reporting the news is as depressing as watching it. This might explain why CNN News anchor Richard Quest was caught with a small bag of methamphetamine in his pocket. In case you are curious about this particular drug, Wikipedia...

Posted on April 19, 2008 6:27 PM

Virginia Court: Spam is not Protected Speech

Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003. Jeremy Jaynes, a...

Posted on March 3, 2008 3:15 PM

Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go

A disproportionate amount of fraud seems to have taken place in the telecom and technology fields over the last decade. Adelphia, Worldcom, Enron (remember they also had a bandwidth trading division) and many others have been caught and convicted over...

Posted on January 16, 2008 8:20 PM

Unlock iPhone get Sued

There has been tremendous coverage of the New Jersey teen who unlocked the iPhone. Now it seems it is possible that unlocking the iPhone and sharing the secret online can make you a target of a lawsuit. Here is the...

Posted on August 28, 2007 9:55 AM

Use Skype, go to Jail

OK, I have been writing about Skype almost continually and this is not intentional. There is just a great deal of news about the company lately. For example, George Ou discusses today how a man in the UK was arrested...

Posted on August 24, 2007 9:23 AM

Joseph Nacchio

Ex-Qwest Chief Nacchio Gets 6 Years for Inside Trades   In case you missed it, Joseph Nacchio, former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., was sentenced to six years in prison for trading $52 million in company...

Posted on July 29, 2007 3:26 PM

Richard Gere in Jail?

I remember a simpler time when American celebrities were only arrested for possession of drugs. But kissing?   See: Indian court issues warrant for Gere over kiss...

Posted on April 26, 2007 11:23 AM

Chinese Pornography

China is really cracking down on pornography. I had no idea it was even considered a problem in the country. An AP story shows some valuable insight on how the country is dealing with what they see as a growing...

Posted on April 15, 2007 10:09 AM

Nacchio Investor Fraud

On behalf of all people who played by the rules, thank you Mr. Nacchio for making a turbulent telecom market in the post-bubble era even worse.According to published reports, a federal grand jury in Denver has charged Nacchio, 56, with...

Posted on December 20, 2005 4:43 PM