6. Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers and Critics question Comcast broadband caps: Comcast will limit residential customers to 250G bytes of bandwidth monthly as of Oct. 1. Those who exceed the limit will be contacted and told to curb their broadband use and, if in the six months after that warning the customer again goes over the limit, their service will be suspended for a year. Critics challenged aspects of the move, raising questions they said have not been answered, including "what's the point?" given that few users will likely be affected, at least for now.

7. Judge finds Qualcomm in contempt of injunction: Qualcomm is in contempt of an injunction that prevents it from selling some products that use patented Broadcom technology, a U.S. federal judge ruled. Qualcomm was ordered to pay royalties to Broadcom for revenue derived from QChat version 3.0, push-to-talk software that Qualcomm was ordered by the court to stop selling. The company also has to pay Broadcom gross profits from QChat service and support.

8. Steve Jobs' death greatly exaggerated; Bloomberg obit a mistake: The whoops entry for the week is courtesy of the Bloomberg financial news service, which inadvertently posted the obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Bloomberg quickly retracted the obituary. Infrastructure organizations often have such stories written in advance so that they can be quickly rolled out when someone actually does die. From time to time, such stories are updated and then stored away for future use. Apparently, in the updating process the Bloomberg story wound up going briefly public.

9. Hacker faces plane ride to US court: The European Court of Human Rights will not hear U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal that he not be extradited to the U.S. McKinnon's attorney plans one more appeal, this one to the U.K. Home Secretary, on medical grounds because McKinnon was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a neurological disorder. He is accused of hacking into computers belonging to NASA and the U.S. military in 2001 and was indicted in 2002. U.K. police arrested him in 2005, and his extradition was first approved by the government there in 2006, but he has been fighting that move since.

10. Consumer electronics expo kicks off in Berlin: The huge IFA consumer electronics show is under way in Berlin, and although a lot of the focus is on gear for homes, vendors are also showing off netbooks, laptops, storage devices and other wares that would be useful for work purposes as well.