And here's a lawsuit that's going nowhere fast. Alex points us to the news of a NY accountant, Leo Kehoe, who is suing Craigslist for $1 million because someone insulted him on the site. He is also suing the anonymous user, who called him a "fraudulent scumbag" who "will botch up your tax returns and forget to submit them." However, it sounds like he got some very bad advice from his law...

This afternoon, House Ways & Means Committee members Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) sought to attach the MOBILE Cell Phone Act (H.R. 690) to small business tax legislation being marked-up by the Committee. H.R. 690, which enjoys bipartisan support from nearly 200 cosponsors, would repeal the arcane IRS listed property rule that requires personal use of employer-provided ce...

As was expected, Canadian MP Charlie Angus has introduced a bill that would expand Canada's "you must be a criminal" blank media tax (they prefer "levy," but it's a tax) to iPods and other media players. However, to "balance" that out, he's also proposing a change to copyright law that would make Canada's "fair dealing" laws more flexible. Expanding fair dealing is definitely a...

With tax-preparation season now shifting into high gear, busy business people who tear their hair out this time each year tracking down receipts for their deductible business expenses now have a iPhone app to help them keep permanent digital images...

Every few months or so we hear about proposals in Canada to extend Canada's blank media tax (they prefer "levy") to MP3 players, such as iPods. The Canadian Private Copying Collective has tried to do this multiple times and had the courts strike it down multiple times. These levies make little sense. They massively increase the price of certain products (studies have seen 90% of the cost of b...

Earlier this year, we noted that France was considering a plan to tax Google to pay record labels. It looks like the UK has come up with a similarly bad plan for the newspaper industry, with a commission suggesting a tax on Google and other news aggregators, to help prop up newspapers. There doesn't seem to be much greater rationale, other than that old news publications are struggling and Go...

Vodafone has filed the final part of its submission as to why it shouldn't be held liable for a US$2 billion tax demand following its takeover of India's Hutchison Essar in 2007. Click here for more.

I meant to post this yesterday, but the business side of this web stuff got in the way (tax season approaches, you know).  In any case, here are my two videos of the Motorola BACKFLIP for AT&T.  Im currently working on a full written review for MobileBurn.com, but I can share the videos and some ...

Employers across the world are equipping their workers with mobile devices. Based on a law established in 1989, employees are supposed to pay taxes on any personal phone call that is made using an employee-issued device. Find out what is being done to repeal this outdated tax code. To learn more watch this segment from our March installment of our Wonder of Wireless webcast, and take a few moments...

You may remember last summer that Amazon shut down its affiliate programs in North Carolina, Hawaii and Rhode Island in response to new laws being put in place in those states, which would effectively make any Amazon affiliate an "official" representative of the company in that state, thus requiring that Amazon start collecting sales tax. This followed a similar mess in New York the year before. T...