Archive for June, 2007

How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell

Friday, June 15th, 2007

How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell If it hadn't been for the distinctive suede coat, there would have been no chase through the streets of San Francisco, no heroine and, in all likelihood, no justice. But when Karen Lodrick ...

Book exec steals Google laptops to “teach lesson” about theft

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Richard Charkin is an unrepentant thief. Charkin, a UK executive with publisher Macmillan, attended last week's Book Expo America in New York and decided to make his feelings about Google Book Search clear by teaching Google a lesson: he stole two of the company's laptops. His point was that Google Book ...

Amazon to buy NetFlix?

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Yes, Amazon already has an online on-demand movie service, but that won’t stop the world’s most famous web retailer from buying NetFlix, the movies-through-the-mail company that recently built an on-demand service of its own. At least, that’s what the Associated Press is reporting. According to the AP, a Jackson Securities analyst ...