Lately Alan Greenspan has been harping on the growing US account deficit and the plunging dollar quite a bit. It is no surprise. Law makers just raised the ceiling on the US debt and Bush (who is mainly responsible for the current dire economic state) is saying: "Where do I sign?". This must be the — Continue reading »
Phishing the hosts
📆 November 8, 2004
A new and more stealth phishing scam has entered the Internet scam market. According to this link, scammers are now able to manipulate the hosts files in users' computers, thus redirecting them to their nefarious Web sites without the user ever realizing it. This is mainly done with script-laden emails, some of which may not — Continue reading »
Google Nears Yahoo
📆 October 22, 2004
With help from its earning's announcement last night, Google seems poised to overtake Yahoo's market cap in short order. The gap is hairline thin as I write this. It's hard to imagine that a company of such humble beginnings could surpass Yahoo in such a short time. But then again that statement alone is astonishing — Continue reading »
Goodyear Making Good
📆 October 1, 2004
Late August on a trip from Connecticut to Virginia my car broke down in the center lane of the Jersey turnpike. The alternator had died and the battery had little juice left to keep the car going. So on this hottest hour of the hottest day of August, I stepped out of the car, pushed — Continue reading »
Hotmail Keeps the Promise
📆 September 24, 2004
Just logged in to my Hotmail account and noticed the storage meter reads 250 MB. It's good to see them keeping the promise they made a few months ago after Google introduced their 1 gigger email service and Yahoo followed suit with their 200 meg upgrade. I was beginning to think that Hotmail might renege — Continue reading »
Domain Protect – Another Act of Desperation by NSI
📆 September 13, 2004
In the beginning there was Internic, the quasi-government outfit tasked with assigning domain names, numbers, etc. Anyone who wanted a domain name could get one for free just by applying. Soon the Web turned popular and Internic began charging annual fees for the domain names. It eventually morphed into Network Solutions Inc. or NSI (a — Continue reading »
Applauding France
📆 September 8, 2004
The new school year has just begun in most of the world, but in France this year is especially poignant. It is the first year that the French government has banned prominent displays of religious effects on students. This includes head scarves for Moslem women, skull caps for Jewish men, visible crosses for Christians, and — Continue reading »
The City of WiFi Love
📆 September 2, 2004
The City of WiFi Love Becoming the largest WiFi hotspot in the world is no small task but that is exactly what Philadelphia is aiming for. The plan currently under development by the city of Philadelphia would uniformly cover the entire city (135 square miles), and best of all would be available to the residents — Continue reading »
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