XBox 360 Eaten By Dog [Ben Ackerman via Digg]
Paid $400 for an XBox360 on eBay, but your dog got to the shipping box first? Why, just put it on UPS's insurance and ship it right back. A happy ending for everyone except UPS's insurer: the buyer gets his money back, the seller keeps the payment *and* gets a chewed-up but working XBox360 back in the mail.
It would have been far funnier, however, if the dog-owner had tried to blame the sender and left negative feedback, causing a memetic, Stolen Sidekick-esque convulsion of righteous fury among Digg commenters.
Cricket dialed in for debut [San Diego Union-Tribune]
San Diego finally gets it's much-awaited Cricket cellphone service courtesy of operators Leap Wireless International, firing up in its home city after premiering in more than a dozen other locales, surviving bankruptcy and then the rapid growth of it's nascent, $45-per-month flat-fee business model.
The AP takes a look at the current rack of smartphones, in that disconcerting, cultivated faux-naif style it likes to adopt for tech coverage: perfect for convicing atechnical realtives to buy you geeky stuff.
Ericsson execs cleared of tax evasion [Reuters]
Can't shoot fish in a barrel if you don't know how to fire a gun.
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