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- October 6,
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2008
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Josie Cory,,Gary Sunkin; Victor Cab
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Santa Monica,
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October
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10a
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- Short Selling, The One Satisfaction Rule
Payoff Game - on Wall
Street.
Short Selling, Insuarnce and
credit swaps Elements of Fraud
/Credit-default swaps, conceived by
bondholders, allow investors to buy
protection against a company defaulting.
As the market expanded, speculators
started using them to bet on a company's
creditworthiness. The contracts pay the
holder face value for the underlying
securities or the cash equivalent should a
company fail to repay its debt.
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Though it grew a hundredfold in the last
seven years, total outstanding contracts
in credit-default swaps are dwarfed by
other derivative markets, including those
that bet on interest rates. Those markets
had contracts linked to about $465
trillion as of June 30, the International
Swaps and Derivatives Assn. said.
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The joint probe announced Monday will also
examine allegations of insider trading,
market manipulation and other forms of
fraud, according to a second person.
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Cuomo and US probe credit-default swaps
The probe seeks to "determine whether any
federal laws have ... an earlier inquiry
by Cuomo's office, US Atty. ... Cuomo has
been probing alleged manipulation of
credit Business | October 21st, 2008
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Google's
World ofWiTel - The
WiTels®™©) device, which
will run on Google's new Android operating
system, will go on sale for $179. A
mass-market device with a sharp touch
screen and slide-out keyboard that brings
the experience of mobile Web surfing
closer to that of a personal
computer. MORE
STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
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Google - 10 years Later 1998 - 2008 -
• Google's
World ofWiTel -
The
WiTels®™©) device, -- will
go on sale for $179. MORE
STORY ABOUT gPHONE
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Google
- 10 years Later 1998 - 2008 - Sergey Brin
Speaks / MORE STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
10e
-Why Do You
Believe?
•••A
new study out of Northwestern University,
starts to provide data and insight into
what Marx was getting at -- not if there
is a God and not whether it makes sense
that humans should believe, but simply why
humans believe - CLICK FOR MORE
BIBLICAL STUDIES.
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10f
- Google Yahoo Deal on Hold. The
partnership is under scrutiny by the
Justice
Department.
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On
October 4, 2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google
Inc. agreed to delay an Internet-
advertising partnership while U.S.
regulators investigate whether the deal
would hamper competition. - CLICK FOR
MORE Google
Story.
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The Crash of
2008
10a
- One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game -
Q&A
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How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers
get from bailout plan?
•••It
all depends on the "IF" answere: WAS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY INVOLVED. Was insurance
$$ part of the Payoff. - CLICK FOR
MORE BAIL-OUT
GAMES.
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10b
FICO The Credit Rating Agencies -
Fraudulent FICO
SCORES
•••In
D.C., a few
congressmen blame Benchmark firms for
financial crisis
Congress had a big hand in oversight
failures and deregulation, in part through
a philosophy of reducing government's
role. Rep. Waxman begins hearings today
- MORE FICO STORY.
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10c
- Fipping Real Estate Is Illegal.
ScamMers
of Deeds of Trusts in California were
involved high-end house flips on Wall
Sreet usesing Deeds of Trust.
•••Lehman
Bros. Bank, which last month spiraled into
bankruptcy amid the nation's deepening
financial crisis, and another lender, RBC
Mortgage Co., lost about $42 million on
the loans. - MORE FLIPPING
STORY.
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BackDatingFraud.
Former McAfee, Inc.
lawyer is
acquitted in stock options backdating
trial
•••Kent
Roberts, who served as the software
maker's general counsel until he was fired
in 2006, was accused of tampering with
grants to increase his shares' value by
$200,000. CLICK FOR MORE BACKDATING
STORY.
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2007b
BofA settles privacy lawsuit. Who's
next -- American Express? CLICK FOR
MORE STORY
•10e
-Why Do You
Believe
•••A
new study out of Northwestern University,
perhaps without really meaning to, gets at
something much more interesting. It starts
to provide data and insight that add to
our ability to understand what Marx was
getting at -- not if there is a God and
not whether it makes sense that humans
should believe, but simply why humans
believe.
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10fGoogle
Yahoo Deal on Hold. The partnership is
under scrutiny by the Justice
Department.
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On October 4,
2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to
delay an Internet- advertising partnership
while U.S. regulators investigate whether
the deal would hamper competition.
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MORE 4308 STORY
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The
10th Anniversary of Google. October marks
the Beginnings of the Browser War &
Chrome's Shiny
Features
•The Los
Angeles Times
reported,
"if
Explorer and Firefox are the Toyotas of
browsers, Chrome is the sporty Mini
Cooper."
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Chrome's
developers promoted it as a speedier,
safer and more reliable way to navigate
the Web that will give consumers more and
better options. Chrome, in the works for
about two years, was first tested on
thousands of finicky Google employees --
including co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin. CLICK
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FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
•••FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
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GoogleYahooAdDeal
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt will pursue
Chrome
and the Yahoo AdDea
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Apple
Settles "backdated option awards"
•••Apple
Inc. settled a lawsuit claiming that
company directors and managers, including
Chief Executive Steve Jobs, lied to
shareholders about how they backdated
option awards to maximize personal
profit.
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U.S. District Judge Jeremy
Fogel in San Jose tentatively approved the
settlement of the so-called derivative
lawsuit brought by Apple investors on
behalf of the company against directors
and officers for breach of corporate
duties, said Fogel's clerk, Christian
Delaney.
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Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple
said last year that it backdated 6,428
stock-option grants issued from 1997 to
2002. Apple investigated the backdating,
found no misconduct by Jobs, and recorded
$84 million in charges to correct its
accounting. The Justice Department in July
closed its criminal probe of Apple and its
executives over backdating. MORE
STORY
lopers promoted it as a speedier, safer
and more reliable way to navigate the Web
that will give consumers more and better
options. Chrome, in the works for about
two years, was first tested on thousands
of finicky Google employees -- including
co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
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FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
•••FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
CLICK FOR
MORE STORY
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GoogleYahooAdDeal
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt will pursue
Chrome
and the Yahoo AdDea
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Apple
Settles "backdated option awards"
•••Apple
Inc. settled a lawsuit claiming that
company directors and managers, including
Chief Executive Steve Jobs, lied to
shareholders about how they backdated
option awards to maximize personal
profit.
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U.S. District Judge Jeremy
Fogel in San Jose tentatively approved the
settlement of the so-called derivative
lawsuit brought by Apple investors on
behalf of the company against directors
and officers for breach of corporate
duties, said Fogel's clerk, Christian
Delaney.
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Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple
said last year that it backdated 6,428
stock-option grants issued from 1997 to
2002. Apple investigated the backdating,
found no misconduct by Jobs, and recorded
$84 million in charges to correct its
accounting. The Justice Department in July
closed its criminal probe of Apple and its
executives over backdating. MORE
STORY
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Is
A Wireless Telephone Quality Control
Service Needed? Consumers say Yes to WTQC
and No to Violation of Cramming
laws
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AT & T buries customer rights
are spelled out in their copyrighted
2,500-page 'guidebook'
•••Judging
from the phone company's voluminous new
online customer manual, if you have a
problem with your bill, too bad, said
WTQCA spokeswoman.
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(Cramming)-
...Witteman said the online
guidebook and ambiguous notification
policy appear to violate a California
statute requiring that consumers "be given
sufficient information to make informed
choices."
••••AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
••••"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
••••An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
••••The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills.
••Witteman
said the online guidebook and ambiguous
notification policy appear to violate a
California statute requiring that
consumers "be given sufficient information
to make informed choices."
••••AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
••••"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
••••An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
••••The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills. (See
Article 109AT&Tfraud.htm )
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STORY
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MCI Founder of
AT&T vs MCI fame dies.
•••V.
Orville Wright Played Key Role in Breaking
up AT & T, and was president and
chief executive of MCI Communications
during its transformation from a start-up
into the leading challenger of AT&T in
the 1970s and 1980s. He was 87.
V. Orville Wright wasa pivotal backstage
figure in disrupting AT&T's virtual
monopoly on long-distance phone service
and communications technology.
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As the company sought to break
into AT&T's long-distance terrain, MCI
chief executive, McGowan successfully
pushed for the Justice Department to file
an antitrust suit seeking to break up
AT&T's Bell telephone companies. The
10-year battle resulted in one of the
largest corporate reorganizations in
history, the creation of seven regional
operating companies, the "Baby Bells," in
1984.
(See
Article 114Orville
WrightMCIvsAT&T) MORE
STORY
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Google
gPhone Unveiled on Sept.
23rd.
•••For
those who have been anticipating the
so-called Google Phone as if it were the
next iPhone, the wait is almost over.
•••T-Mobile
USA said Tuesday that it would unveil the
much-anticipated mobile phone loaded with
Google Inc.'s Android software next
Tuesday at a news conference in New York.
The G1 phone, which is being manufactured
by HTC, won't be for sale until October.
But expect T-Mobile to finally divulge
some key details such as pricing.
•••T-Mobile
is just the first carrier to market the
phone. Other cellphone manufacturers and
carriers are expected to dial for dollars
using the Google brand as bait, but they
apparently have hit some snags. The
Android phone is being positioned as a
rival to Apple's iPhone and Research in
Motion's BlackBerry.
•••For
Google, this seems like a no-lose
proposition. The Internet search giant
wants to make sure that all of its
services, including its lucrative
advertising, are available on all
cellphones. So it created software for
mobile phones that does that.
•••Pundits
have been saying for years that the mobile
Web will dwarf the nonmobile Web once
enough people have access to so-called
smart phones and all of the bells and
whistles that come with them. Already
Google is readying a store for
downloadable mobile software similar to
the one that has proved so successful for
the iPhone.
•••Google
showed off the handset at a developer
conference in London on Tuesday.
•••Next
week, Google and T-Mobile should start to
reveal whether Android will live up to the
hype. MORE gWiTEL
STORY
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Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is
It?
•••Today,
title-card claims are no longer required.
But when courts rule on historical
copyright issues, they follow the laws in
place at the time -- in this case, says
Hedenkamp, the 1909 law requiring that the
word copyright or its symbol be
"accompanied by the name of the copyright
proprietor" -- a rule scholars said means
in the immediate proximity.
Disney legal advisors were
not amused. General Counsel Louis
Meisinger wrote back that it would be
"inconceivable that any modern court would
find any confusion about the identity of
the proprietor of Mickey Mouse
cartoons."
He even threatened Hedenkamp with
legal action if the young scholar openly
advanced such
claims.
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"With respect to your plans
to otherwise promote these as being in the
public domain," Meisinger added, "please
be advised that slander of title remains
actionable under California law for both
compensatory and punitive
damages."
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Nonetheless, Hedenkamp let
the genie out of the bottle, spelling out
his arguments in the Virginia Sports and
Entertainment Law Journal, a publication
of the University of Virginia's law
school. It attracted little attention
off-campus.MORE
STORY((See Article
109CopyrightMickyMouse)
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South African Dynasty bids for rights to
purchase and sell the NBS WiTEL™ WiFi
and WiMax Wireless
Telephone™©® effects
throughout
Africa.
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The Kuumba Royal Dynasty group,
which is bidding to purchase the 1908
RF300 WiTEL effects owned by NBS Wireless
Telephone™©®, U.S. -- said
Friday that they were on their first leg
to look for suitors throughout
Africa.
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Daniel Amaonwu, spokesman for the
NBS WiTEL organization, Africa, says,
"thus far, the NBS Wireless
Telephone™©® U.S. registered
trademarks, copyrights and patent have
been fully accepted, and will be honored
throughout
Africa."
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African TeleCom executives are
dismissing any ideas from both the U.S.
and European bankers who say, "Africans
are unqualified to run a Billion Dollar
digital TeleCom
business."
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The African group has put forth "no
substantive plan" for how the members of
their Quality TeleCom Administration, or
FCC equivalents will utilize the new WiFi,
WiMAX effects of the Wireless
Telephone™ throughout Africa.
Amaonwu, said, "if they do it themselves,
they'll do it with their own University
Hi-Tech grads."
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Daniel said in a
email to the NBS WiTEL organization, "each
African nation signing on, will do it, as
if they were working within the U.S.,
following the guidelines established by
the FCC, and the laws established by the
1905, U.S. Patent Office."
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Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Bill of
Rights a dead law?
If
it is still alive and valid --
then
the property seizure of the effects of NBS
WiTel™®©
-- by various world governments -- should
now be paid for.
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STORY.
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But maybe a feature film like
NBS FireWire or SecretKeeper is the wrong
way to approach and educate the world on
who really invented the Wireless
Telephone™®© and how to pay
him the $Billions of dollars for the
patent, trademark, copyrights and its
effects, "says says Melody Jensen,
spokesperson for VRA TelePlay
Pictures.
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"The 100th anniversary of the
WiTEL™®© invention could be
described as an unscripted reality show
with a new set of 'Key Words," and new
players, like China, Nigeria, South
Africa, Korea, etc. -- and not a movie,"
says Jensen.
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"A TV reality show is still
what I think would be closer to the mark
for telling the Wireless
Telephone™®© story and its
enormous value in today's world of cell
phones, and world leaders that want to get
involved."
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The proliferation and
educational value of this form of
entertainment having so whetted the
American public's taste for truth telling,
and to those officials that follow the
FCC's annual auction sales that brings in
$Billion of dollars from the RF-300 WiTEL
spectrums. Look at what they're doing to
the once "free analog waves." The 'not so
free converter boxes' are replacing the
analog antenna and FREE TV in February
2009."
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Personally, I had my eureka
moment when I read the Bill of Rights and
original version of the WiTEL article
several months ago, which states.
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Feature
Story / Settling
the USC@5 $Billion WiTEL Controversy. The
NBS100 Wireless Telephone®™
organization, like Google, Inc. -- let's
people use the effects of it's goods,
products, and services FREE. For decades,
the WiTEL organization, like Google, pays
itself back for the Freebies it gives out,
by sharing the income derived from its
name branded goods, and services within
radio, movie and web
content.
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