Archive for November, 2004
PC security at issue again
Now the weirdos are using websites and ads to spread computer viruses. What next? Will our thoughts become infectable?
And now the star search engine, of all folks, has created a new security risk. Google’s new search tool brings its powerful search technology to your own home ground–and pokes a significant hole in the security […]Chinese wireless competitor a sign of the times
In China, where land-based wired telephony pretty much stinks (unreliable or plain non-existent connections), a wireless company has to meet severe demands–cheap, high-tech reliable connectivity for millions of Chinese whose only choice is wireless, according to a news note in the latest Fast Company magazine. The Chinese firm that’s meeting those demands, Ningbo Bird, is […]
“Credit card company scam–a short story”
Ever get one of those little flyers with tiny, tiny printing that come in the mail sometimes saying that you are one of a class of people who will receive point-oh-six-seven-and-two-tenths-percent-of-a-dollar some time next century to compensate you for the overcharging that Credit Card Company X did while you were a cardholder? I get them […]