God, I love simple ideas. This is great one (tip of hat to Lifehack) because it’s already working. By doing your search through Melbourne-based ripple, and looking at an ad, you direct the cents your eyeballs earn to charity. A few hours after launch the difference is already being felt: In our first 48 hours… Read More »
Why are we so intrigued by our phones, but not our computers? I now realise why we buy new cellphones. If we didn’t, there would be nothing to do during those times we find ourselves without external distractions, such as taking public transport, sitting in cafes waiting for friends to turn up (or even, if… Read More »
Good piece by my WSJ colleage Joe Pereira on the TJX debacle, the biggest known theft of credit-card numbers. It all came down to lax Wi-Fi security on the part of the retail chain’s stores. A good read: clipped from online.wsj.com The $17.4-billion retailer’s wireless network had less security than many people have on their… Read More »
Nick Carr’s interesting take on Twitters: does their brevity make them meaningful or just another channel of crap? Three quick points: + Twitters, like blogs, run the gamut from poetry to drivel + One person’s drivel is another person’s poetry: It usually depends on whether you know them or not + This has more to… Read More »
Despite appearances, the U.S. is still the most popular place for the bad guys to place their malware code. StopBadware.org has listed those Internet Service Providers that wittingly or unwittingly host “badware” — an umbrella term for any kind of software that insidiously installs itself on your computer. What’s interesting is that while there is… Read More »