2007 April

Morgan Pozgar is thirteen years old and she is fast. At least, her thumbs are fast. “Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds.”
link: 13-year-old Pennsylvania teen wins $25,000 prize in New York text-messaging contest
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There is a scam now where hackers leave USB sticks and hope that these sticks are found and used. The USB sticks are loaded with malware. Obviously, it is another effort to breach security and access personal information. This ploy is “designed to propagate Trojan banking software that swiped users’ login credentials […]

Just in case malware does access your computer system, DropMyRights is a program that limits the damage that the malware can do. “A growing number of security tools are taking a new approach to fighting malicious software. Rather than blocking each virus, they aim to limit malware’s power to cause harm even if it […]

This is really outrageous. The pet food recall list is incomplete. You may be feeding your pet contaminated food.
Lisa Wade McCormick at ConsumerAffairs.Com has reported that “Some Companies that Received Tainted Rice Protein Have Not Started Recalls”.
link: Senators Demand FDA Release Names of All Suspect Pet Food Companies
Why are authorities […]

Remember when your mother told you that she didn’t like the expression on your face? Perhaps it said far too much to her. Well, here is a note of caution. Your facial expressions can land you in a whole load of trouble at the airport:
“Are you aware of your facial […]

Google is celebrating Earth Day with an iceberg logo. Further, “to help spread the word about keeping our planet green this Earth Day, Google has joined forces with Scholastic – the folks who brought us Clifford the Big Red Dog – to distribute lesson plans (and a contest) to middle-schoolers across the U.S.”
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The use of surveillance cameras always raises the debate about privacy versus security. The standard argument is that people should have ‘no expectation of privacy’ in a public place. It is characterized as a ‘cat and mouse’ game between the good guys and the bad guys. However, now the parameters of this […]

As the pet food recall drags on and on, it becomes worse. It seeps into the human food chain. “The Food and Drug Administration has opened a criminal investigation in the widening pet food contamination scandal, officials said yesterday, as it was confirmed that tainted pork might have made its way onto human […]

Associated Press is reporting contaminated dog food in South Africa. “Pet food laced with an industrial chemical traced to China has killed 30 dogs in South Africa, the country’s veterinary association said Friday, as recalls continued to expand in North America.
In South Africa, a range of dog and cat dry pet food products were […]

Dell must be painfully aware that it is on a ’slippery slope’ with customers. In the face of an extensive marketing campaign by Microsoft, Dell is bringing back Windows XP:
“Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them.
The decision reverses a policy begun in January that […]