Google has removed an adword on its search engine placed by a competitor to its Gmail service. AlienCamel, an Australia-based email service (full disclosure: I use the service), applied to have the word ‘webmail’, along with several others, inserted into the ‘sponsored links’ section of Google’s search pages when people entered the search ‘webmail’. After… Read More »
I opened a new bank account recently, and also applied for a VISA card. The credit card department this morning called me to verify some personal data. When the person started asking her questions, I stopped her. I told her I would have to verify who she was before I could give her any such… Read More »
I’m not sure this is new, but it’s an interesting feature of Amazon’s new look storefront: a tab that expands as you move your mouse over it: changes to this: (resized). Move the mouse away from the pop-up and it disappears. Not a bad navigation tool.
For sparkline enthusiasts: The guys at Bissantz tell me their SparkTicker is now available for download, creating sparklines for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, HTML and information tickers: SparkTicker exports your data to both your personal ticker on your screen and/or a marquee you can post on a website, see the top of this page for examples.… Read More »
Good article in Australia’s BRW Magazine about phishing and banks. It makes some important points, not least that banks are still trying to talk down the problem while at the same time passing costs and risk onto the customer: Banks are desperate to assure their customers that internet banking is safe. But their actions are not… Read More »