Recently, Clark told you about a gotcha regarding the Radio Shack/AT&T $99 laptop offer. The catch is a hugely expensive data plan with caps on Internet usage.

Now comes word that AT&T has a "kill pill" technology that allows them to disable the laptop if you stop paying on your data plan! AT&T is not using the "kill pill" at this time, but the technology does exist.

In related news, AT&T is not allowing iPhone users -- the same ones who pay them huge monthly fees -- to use Skype on their iPhone. They're so afraid of the free market that they forced Apple to disable Skype on the data plan that you're already paying for. That's ridiculous.

The original monopoly phone company does not play fair in the free market! This really shows AT&T's monopoly heritage. Even to this day, they're cowards in the free market. As always, any AT&T representative is welcome to come on the show and dispute Clark's take.

Meanwhile, The New York Times says we'll have access to $99 computers later this year thanks to a breakthrough in computer chip technology. We're talking about devices for basic computing -- e-mailing, word processing and making Internet phone calls.

The entire brains of the computer will be stored on a $20 chip. These chips use almost no electricity and the battery power promises to run for at least 24 hours.

The irony here is that if you go back 10 years, computers were a fortune and TV sets were cheap. Now it's completely turned around!