Another Guy Gets $50,000 Mobile Phone Bill for Internet Surfing

Published on December 27th, 2007

Amazon is in the news.
They are going to sell music without copy protection.
They announce that they sold 17 Wii’s-per-second in 2007. Cripes! No way.
Apple doing a deal for downloading Fox films. Walmart, meanwhile, out of the downloading business.
Dell’s XPS One getting praise for design but costs too much.
HP sold 60 million printers last year.
Boston Public Library putting old docs on line.
Panasonic to show 150-inch PDP at CES.
More cell phone horror stories. Guy gets $50,000 bill.

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# 1 Mister Download said, on December 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm

It took a week for anyone to notice that Wal-Mart took down the downloads.

# 2 natefrog said, on December 27th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Clarification on the Wii numbers:

Amazon was selling Wiis at a rate of 17 per second. Disclaimer: This was only during the holiday season. Disclaimer disclaimer: This was only when the Wii was in stock.

(Source: CNN)

Otherwise, according to my calculations, Amazon sold 536,112,000 Wiis in 2007. And I still don’t have one!

# 3 ChrisMac said, on December 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm

More importantly, You’ll never “need” a Wii.

All hail our Nintendo overlords!

# 4 RockOn said, on December 28th, 2007 at 8:22 am

“Guy gets $50,000 bill”

Turns out that “free” Pr0n isn’t free!

# 5 Angel H. Wong said, on December 28th, 2007 at 8:33 am

“Dell’s XPS One getting praise for design but costs too much.”

Yep, pretty means expensive.

# 6 pedro said, on December 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am

The shot after the Ballmer intro? pure genious!

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