The Pure Digital PSV-352 60 Minute and Pure Digital PSV-351 30-min Point & Shoot Camcorder are really catching on. But the software, while simple to use, is crippled, and worse, it emails your videos through Grouper.com, where Grouper grabs not only your video, but harvests the email addresses and creates an account for you, all without letting you know at the time!

Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone’s microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time.

Documents produced by Whole Foods Market in response to a lawsuit filed by the FTC have revealed that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey routinely posted anonymously to Internet stock boards, bashing competitor and acquisition target Wild Oats by name and stock symbol. The Whole Foods FTC lawsuit was filed in an effort to stop the takeover, asserting that it would be a violation of antitrust laws.

The Geek Squad at Best Buy Electronics stores is supposed to help customers with their computers. But some geeks on the geek squad have instead been helping themselves to porn files found on their customers’ hard drives, with one Geek Squad member copying the files to his own thumb drive (issued by employer Best Buy .com).

If you have a Sprint cellular phone and Sprint cell phone service, or are considering getting a cell phone fro Sprint, you’ll want to know just how the Sprint phone company treats customers of their Sprint wireless phone service when they call Sprint PCS customer service. Because customers calling the Sprint customer service phone number too often are being terminated by the Sprint/Nextel service!

The trio that brought us Blue Security and their Blue Frog, the DOSing service that planned to DOS spammers, and that went belly up after a spammer instead DOSed them (well, duh), has apparently decided that spamming is more lucrative (again, well, duh), and founded a new company called Collative to do just that.

I read an article this week about “virtual rape”. Yes, really. That would be virtual sexual assault on your virtual online character or persona. This is all coming out now because, I kid you not, someone from Second Life reported a virtual rape to the police in Brussels. And they are investigating it. Oh for pete’s sake, give me a break! How tenous a grasp on reality do these people have? And how the heck can there be “forced online sexual activity”? Isn’t that nearly an oxymoron?

Yesterday we found that someone had come to our site using this search: “find out where ppl logged into your paypal account.” Really. It turns out lots of people search online using the term “ppl”, and expect to find useful information. Terms like cool ppl, naked ppl, gay ppl, fat ppl, hot ppl, ppl at the beach (they must be the hot ppl), short ppl, and even Lego ppl. Do they find that useful information? I’m sure they find the information they deserve.

A scam hoax on Craigslist has led to a Tacoma woman, Laurie Raye, having everything stripped – even the fixtures – from one of her houses. It all started with a seemingly genuine post on the popular Craig’s list site.

Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me? And why were they always from AOL and Hotmail? Now people are asking – is Flixstr accessing your AOL and Hotmail contacts list and spamming them in your name?

The British government is considering making registered sex offenders register their email addresses and chat names – including names that they use in chatrooms along with their other details. Good idea. Let’s have them register what sort of clothing they wear, while we’re at it.

Sony sure is a PR nightmare, not to mention their careless disregard for the safety and security of their customers. Apparently knowingly installing rootkit software on their music CDs which opened up their customer’s personal computers to hacking (which ultimately lead to a lawsuit and recall) wasn’t quite enough for them, as it’s now coming to light that with the current issues that Sony faces with their laptop batteries catching on fire, they apparently knew that the batteries were flawed and vulnerable to overheating and catching on fire!

eFax today announced that they are raising their already gouging rates from $12.95 a month to $16.95 a month. But there are alternatives, and there is a way to cancel your eFax service, even though they hide it very well.

Starbucks has been sued for retracting and failing to honor an email coupon which was distributed to people who never should have had it in the first place.

Radio Shack has given the pink slip via email to 400 RadioShack employees, giving rise to what may be the first instance of “pink email”.