Possible Class Action Against HP Over Cruddy Pavilion Notebooks [Lawsuits]

If you own an HP Pavilion Notebook and you've had problems with it—specifically overheating, problems with the power supply, and an inability to update the BIOS—then you might want to contact this law firm and tell them your story. We know class actions rarely help the individual consumer, but they do succeed in punishing the offending company occasionally, and we can't think of a computer company more in need of a good class action smackdown than HP .

Verizon Close To Buying Alltel For $27 Billion [Mergers And Acquisitions]

CNBC is reporting that Verizon Wireless is deeply involved in talks to buy rural cellphone giant Alltel Wireless for an estimated $27 billion. Alltel was recently taken private TPG and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.

Verizon has long been looked at as the ultimate purchaser of Alltel, but failed to bid when the company was auctioned in the spring of 2007. According to people involved in that auction, Verizon believed Alltel's valuation was too high.

Of course, that was a far different time in the credit markets, when financial buyers were routinely outbidding strategic buyers despite the cost savings and revenue synergies available to the strategic buyers.

What do you Alltel customers think of joining Verizon?

Will you go willingly?

Want To Spy On Comcast Subscribers? Comcast Has The Job For You! [Surveillance]

If you'd like to help Comcast eavesdrop on its own subscribers, you're in luck: Comcast has posted a job listing for an "intercept engineer" on a headhunter site, according to Wired . Want ad for position of The Man, inside.

The position requires installation and removal of "strategic and tactical data intercept equipment on a nation-wide basis to meet Comcast and Government lawful intercept needs." The intercept engineer also "performs diagnosis on data, voice, and video services to detect and respond to fraudulent activity such as theft of service and speed enhancement." Only Comcast would prosecute enhanced performance.

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