Two chickens breaking up a fight among two rabbits. Possibly the funniest thing you will see today. (via: Kottke)
US $4.3 Billion in Credit/Debit Card Fraud?
Buried in the I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI article on Wired: The full scope of the problem is hard to judge, but nonetheless staggering. U.S. banks lost $546 million to debit card fraud in 2004, according to banking research firm Dove Consulting, and credit card fraud losses were estimated to be about $3.8 […]
Amazon’s 30 Day Price Guarantee
According to this article at Slate, Amazon.com quietly offers a 30-day price guarantee on any purchase made from Amazon.com. If the price drops on any item within 30 days of your purchase, you can request a refund on the difference by calling the super-secret Amazon Customer Service phone number – 1-800-201-7575, extension 7. More: Consumerist […]
Spam Gains Skills in 2006 Looks To Grow Even More in 2007
MessageLabs released their annual MessageLabs Intelligence Report which details their analysis of email threats (spam, phishing, virus) in 2006 and trends to watch in 2007. The report indicates that the annual average spam rate for 2006 was 86.2% with 80% of all spam coming from Botnets (autonomous systems) and 63.4% of all spam cam from […]
Free Skype Out ends December 31, 2006
Skype, the Ebay-owned voice over IP (VOIP) company recently announced some changes to their SkypeOut offering. SkypeOut allows you to place phone calls from any computer with broadband access to any phone in the US and Canada (with per-minute fees for international calls) Previously, Skype had been offering SkypeOut free for the last six months […]
Site Focus
I was going get this blog going on all the fun things about the web; SEO/SEM, advertising, web analytics, domaining & monetization, etc. But as a contributing writer to a few different blogs, I’ve realized that the last thing I want to do is create yet another time commitment. What will follow on this site […]