Boy Opens, Exploits Xbox Live Account With Mom's Credit Card
Single mother Dawn Matthews received an extremely unwelcome (although increasingly common) letter recently. After she allowed her 11-year-old son, Brendan Jordan, to create an Xbox Live account -- with her credit card information -- he subsequently racked up £1,082.52 (almost $2,000) in charges. The compassionate mother apparently hasn't punished her son, but she did tell the Daily Mail that ...
In the war between Netflix and Blockbuster for online rental domination, it sure looks like Netflix has come out ahead. As Blockbuster suffers layoffs and other financial woes, Netflix traffic from subscribers is way up, far past competition. That battle isn't quite over yet, but for Netflix it's time to start a second fight on a second front: online downloads. Its latest strike is to make ...









