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We've been pointing out that this isn't true for years now, but the entertainment industry is still so focused on "stopping piracy" rather than "what's the best business model," that they still don't seem to realize that many of their efforts to "stop piracy" actually do nothing to help their bottom line, and often do plenty to hurt their performance.

What's on David Pogue's iPhone? He lists his ten favorite apps and more than two dozen runner-ups.

Well, well, well. For over a year now there have been widespread reports of how Verizon Wireless would charged users $1.99 for data services, even if they have data services turned off.

This was happening sometimes to users with phones turned off or even batteries drained. The whole thing was incredibly questionable.

Verizon customer service folks insisted that the people in question clearly accessed the internet, but there were so many reports that they had not, that this response didn't fly.

Back in March, we pointed out how odd it was that the Authors Guild hadn't freaked out about the text-to-speech capabilities of the iPad, which would allow for ebooks to be read aloud.

Of course, this was the same feature on the Kindle which caused the Authors Guild to freak out about (with absolutely no legal basis), leading Amazon to make that feature optional.

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Brick and mortar book retailer Barnes & Noble pushed hard to make a splashy entry into the digital book reading space this holiday season with the

Want to bail out of your Verizon service for a shiny new iPhone, or head to another carrier before your contract ends?

David Pogue, the ever-entertaining New Yo

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The New York Times' David Pogue reports that Amazon has decided to pull certain copies of electronic books from its shelves.

And off of customers' Kindles, too.