"Shit, it's the cops!" (Cashcats.biz)

Surprise, surprise: When corporate criminals exchange communiqués over email, guess what sorts of phrases they're actually dumb enough to use? Try "cover up" and "nobody will find out," according to the Financial Times.

Well, maybe no one would find out if you'd stop using a method of communication that lives forever on your employers' servers!

These little factoids are brought to you by researchers at Ernst & Young, who've worked with the FBI to identify 3,000 keywords that could serve as useful flags for wrongdoing:

“The language, which is a mix of accounting phrases, personal motivations and attempts to conceal, are very revealing,” said Rashmi Joshi, Ernst & Young’s director of fraud investigation and disputes services.

As of right now, fraud investigators mainly find email evidence useful once they've already been tipped off somehow, despite all the ominous wording in employee handbooks about your employer's right to monitor your online activities. But as linguistic analysis software tools grow more sophisticated, even the company cops in the compliance department may be able to catch offenders early.

Call it further proof of Marc Andreessen’s contention that software is eating the world. In this case, skullduggery by corporate employees is the latest market due for disruption. If you're attempting to embezzle enough to send your kids to private school, better do it quickly.

The Financial Times released a HTML5-based web app that works exactly like something users would purchase in the iTunes store. It's the first move by a major publisher to sidestep Apple completely while continuing to offer their product on iPhone and iPad in the app format users have come to expect.

"The App Store is a phenomenon, but it's one that comes at a price," said Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com. "We don't feel its worth our while and so we're walking away from it for right now."

At their annual developer's conference yesterday, Apple unveiled Newstand, which makes all compliant papers and magazines available for download in a single place with a single click, much the same way iBooks now operates.The deadline for publishers to start paying Apple is later this month and some big names like the New York Times have already agreed to the tithe.

"A lot of this is more in the minds of publishers than consumers," said Grimshaw. "We've already got more than 200,000 digital subscribers."

With a solid user base established, the FT wanted to reach the broadest swath of mobile devices. "We want to be on every platform without having to pay to develop a different app. We want our site to appear in search and to be able to link to stories in an email campaign," said Grimshaw. "It's about far more than Apple, it's about the future of the web."