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From New York Times: Kyle Lewis, 25, missed going to church one Sunday last month. But he did not miss the sermon. Mr. Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had downloaded to his iPod. …
For the longest time Gmail has given me 50 invitations. If I use a few, within a day or two, I’d be back up to 50. Well, today I noticed that the number of invitations is now 100. I don’t know what they’re waiting for, but if they are willing to let that many people …
From USA Today: Matthew Szulik, CEO of open-source software company Red Hat, wants to show me his company’s new video. It rolls through evangelical sequences about how the underdog open-source movement is going to prove wrong its doubters. To bolster this point, the video flashes quotes by people through history who had experienced some sort …
I just recently heard about a couple of great sites that keep track of deals or coupons. I know there are a lot of sites out there, but they usually are so cluttered with ads its hard to find what you are looking for. RedFlagDeals.com Created to focus specifically on the Canadian shopper, RedFlagDeals is …
From eWeek: Step aside, Six Flags. Move over, Magic Mountain. For sheer, gut-wrenching highs and lows, even the world’s tallest, fastest, most technologically advanced fly-by-wire roller coaster can’t compare with the last 10 years of highs and lows at Microsoft. Whether you’re a shareholder, an employee, a customer or a competitor, you’ve experienced the thrill …
From California Computer News: Last year, someone took a bulky old-style phone and made a cell-phone headset out of it. It was at once the dorkiest and coolest headset around and understandably a big hit online. This is not an isolated case. At Radio Shack, you can now buy modern phones that look so old-fashioned …
From MSNBC: Web retailer Amazon.com Monday said it would offer online photo developing services through a partnership with leading Internet photo service Shutterfly as it targets a fast-growing market. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Amazon said the service would allow customers to design photo cards, calendars, photo books and gifts such as …
From BBC: Nearly half of the UK’s net users go to eBay monthly, and most of them are older surfers, according to net monitoring firm Nielsen/Netratings. About a fifth are considered heavy users, browsing on the online auction site for two hours or more per month. The site seems to appeal most of all to …
From VNUnet: Phishers are rapidly becoming more sophisticated with the development of malicious crimeware software that can bypass conventional IT security systems and steal identity information for financial crime, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) warned today. In July 2005, APWG researchers found that phishers are designing systems specifically to neutralise the counter-phishing technologies being deployed …
From CNet News: Standing in front of a refrigerated case at the 7-Eleven store in Rockwall, Texas, on a Friday morning, store manager Sherry Neal considered a seemingly mundane, but in fact important, decision: how many chicken salad sandwiches to order for the next day. To aid her decision, Neal held a new lightweight wireless …