I’m not sure this is new, but it’s an interesting feature of Amazon’s new look storefront: a tab that expands as you move your mouse over it: changes to this: (resized). Move the mouse away from the pop-up and it disappears. Not a bad navigation tool.
It’s intriguing how phishers are targeting smaller and smaller groups. Not only does it indicate that the bigger banks and institutions are becoming more secure (or their customers smarter) but it indicates that the phishers must be employing increasingly sophisticated methods of harvesting email addresses. Or is there something else afoot? The Bakersfield Californian yesterday reported… Read More »
In my AWSJ/WSJ.com column on Skype a few weeks back (subscription only; sorry) I talked about how Skype might change the way we communicate online — in part by introducing lots of interesting new business models. Well, it seems to have started. German website Someonenew.com has today announced it has launched a dating website using… Read More »
After losing my trusty Nokia 7650 the other day, I had to buy a replacement, and I couldn’t find that one. so I went cheap — the Nokia 3120, which is still a remarkable gadget at about $120. But, devouring the manual (PDF), I read this: Normal operating position Use the phone only in its normal… Read More »
NetApplications, a ‘leader in Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME)’, says (no permalink available) that Firefox “continues to sway users away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer”. Firefox reached 8% during the month of May up from 7.38% in April. Firefox’s gain is Microsoft’s loss whose base… Read More »