August 9, 2005

According to this CBC report, Apple Computer will be starting a refund program for those who purchased their iPod product during the year that a levy of $25 per iPod over 10 GB was collected. The levy was in effect from December 2003 until a year later, when a Federal Court overturned it. - Slashdot 11:57:29 AM

Former U.N. Official Pleads Guilty FOX NEWS — One of the targets of the Oil-for-Food investigation, Alexander Yakovlev, on Monday pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges for taking bribes during his work at the United Nations. Yakovlev was stripped of his diplomatic immunity earlier Monday and taken into custody by federal authorities. David N. Kelley, the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, announced that a judge accepted Yakovlev's guilty plea for his part in taking at least several hundred thousand dollars from foreign companies in connection with his job as a procurement officer at the world body from 1993 to 2005. 8:03:45 AM