1:00 PM -- Thank You. Mark Cuban has perfectly articulated the frustration one can encounter with those inane inpenetrable plastic tech containers. Feel like a good conspiracy involving mobile phones and spyware? Here's a global telecom whodunnit.

Dow Jones points to a sneaky new Verizon DSL fee. Isn't it just a little too coincidental -- and somewhat outrageous -- that this fee comes online just as a government tax is being removed?

— R. Scott Raynovich, US Editor, Light Reading