Users snarled in fictitious Internet game

The Savant notes that the Finnish cops are investigating what appears to be a "suspicious" Internet game - with pyramidal tendencies. Thousands of Finns have gotten into putting Swiss francs into a fictitious airline called HP Aviation Global Airlines. You can read more at the Helsingin Sanomat, here.

Are online banks any good? The Savant notes that Citigroup doesn't think so. It's closing its scheme right now. Can't compete with Paypal, apparently.

Yesterday, notes the Savant, Microsoft TV decided to test out video over telephone lines using Bell Canada. That little nugget is here. When in doubt, test it on the Canadians first.

Yahoo has paid the NY Attorney general $75,000 worth of peanuts over a consumer case the City was investigating.

What's this? The Brit's Digby "Intel" Jones reckons that the UK government will undermine product development by saying business should pay more of the overheads at our Groves of Academe.

Colin Powell's son, Michael Powell, has warned people that November 24th is the day for wireless local number portability, and if they don't remember, they face the Enforcer. Here.

According to the People's Daily, there's a secret US-Taiwan military hot line. That always gets the PRC in a jitter. Here.