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Customers who are leaving Verizon Wireless are being asked to conduct an exit survey so VZW can find out why they left. The standard questions apply but one of the answers is raising some eyebrows. Can you guess? I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with iClone.

Yes, Verizon Wireless is gauging how badly the iPhone is hurting its subscriber base. It’s simply dying to know if it could have kept you around if VZW offered the iPhone. Chances are, a lot of people with cellphones are catching on to how popular that silly iPhone 3G is and want one – badly. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Apple and VZW are going to play ball one day.

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Remember how Yahoo fucked you out of all your music by shutting down its DRM server and not giving you any reimbursements? Well, it has rightfully decided to reimburse its paying customers. Turns out Yahoo feels bad for screwing customers over. Nice of Yahoo! Music to consider the folks who keep its workers from going hungry.

Yahoo, in return for shutting down their music service, is promising either refunds or a replacement DRM-free version of tracks that you downloaded via its service. All current users will automatically migrate to Real’s Rhapsody service. Gone are the days that the recording industry makes money off of forcing folks to rebuy all their music every time there’s a format change. Trent Reznor makes his music free, why can’t everyone else?

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Are you one of the stereotypical suckers sitting in an Apple line right now? Are you praying to the baby Jeebus every day that Apple will sell you an iPhone 3G? Most likely. Good news for you, though. Apple
will be opening its stores at 8:00 AM Monday through Saturday in an effort to help ease lines for the iPhone 3G. Awaiting customers will also be pre-screened and if you’re eligible, you’ll be given a ticket for an iPhone 3G which you can pick up anytime before 6:00 PM.

It’s like winning the lottery except you can’t buy anything cool. Just an iPhone 3G.

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