The clear-the-inventory site Woot offers 30 GB Zune for $150: They might be out by now...but maybe not. There are three reasons for Microsoft to clear the shelves. First, they have a new model coming and want to empty the inventory. Second, they want more devices in more hands to help create mass. Third, they're killing the product. Since the first release of Zune absolutely suck suck sucked, let me just be frank, there's little reason to buy it at any price. Zune created such a vaccum around itself because it had among the best featureset but the worst enabling of such featureset. The iPhone is similarly limited in its use of Wi-Fi: no song buying, no computer syncing. At least the Zune let you "share" songs with friends, even though the problems with that were rife. The iPhone, however, is beautiful, useful, has a redundant network (EDGE + Wi-Fi), and is part of people's existing software expectations: it's like an iPod, so I sync it in a dock. Anyway, if price were the only reason to not buy a Zune, you don't have that excuse any more.
Latest sorry bastard arrested for kiping Wi-Fi: A fellow in Chiswick, West London (that makes me feel all Jane Austen-y to type it) was arrested when spotted using a laptop outside a house. The policy were called, he admitted to using unsecured Wi-Fi, and he's released while the computer crimes division investigates. The use of "dishonestly" obtained Internet access is a crime in the UK.