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Off with their head! After new details emerge about the Yahoo/Microsoft deal-that-never-was, it looks like Yahoo sabotaged the bid on purpose. At least, that's what Carl Icahn thinks. So now, instead of just ousting the Yahoo board, he's looking to replace Jerry Yang as CEO too.

Pity the people of poor Beaumont, TX. They're the guinea pigs in Time Warner's experiment with tiered pricing for internet usage. It's supposed to be a way to prevent peer to peer traffic from gumming up the works, and it's certainly not a popular solution.

Most of the electronic items that get returned in the U.S. have nothing wrong with them. People either don't know how to work them correctly, or suffer from buyers remorse. It cost the electronics industry 13 billion dollars in 2007 alone.

Are you finished playing a game or watching a blu-ray disc on your PS3? Then turn it off. If you run it 24/7 it sucks up five times the energy of a medium sized fridge. With the money you save, you can buy a Wii. You know... if you can find one, that is.

AT&T is teaming up with Starbucks to give customers two hours of free wi-fi. You can buy a Starbucks card, or use one you already have to sign up for an AT&T wi-fi account, and say it's okay for them to spam you -- I mean, send you emails. They'll give you a free coffee too.

Boston found their new lead singer on MySpace. Tommy DeCarlo was a credit manager at a Home Depot in North Carolina who sounded just like the late Brad Delp. Now Tommy will spend the next several months touring with his favorite band. See, dreams DO come true!