Business, Communication, Technology
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The email I received this morning from PayPal was such a genuine-looking one, it almost had me fooled.
Except it wasn’t from PayPal at all but instead an attempt at phishing.
The first giveaway that it may not be the real deal was that Outlook’s junk mail filter had trapped it.
The second sign was a really [...]
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Since Barack Obama won the US presidential election last week, warm goodwill around the world towards the President-elect (and, I’d argue, towards the USA in general) is undiminished; if anything, it’s increasing.
You can read the opinions of political analysts, commentators, pundits and anyone with a blog or Twitter account and a point of view [...]
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At least, a landslide is what happened in The Economist’s Global Electoral College which closed last week:
Barack Obama has won at least one election by a landslide. Voters in The Economist’s Global Electoral College favoured the Democratic candidate over his Republican rival, John McCain, by more than five to one. Some 52,000 readers around [...]
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The kerfuffle surrounding Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and the BBC came to a conclusion of sorts a few days ago with Brand quitting, Ross suspended and the BBC’s head of Radio 2 resigning.
This story has many of the ingredients of the type of soap opera you typically see on British television these days including [...]
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The hot news today isn’t the global financial crisis. Nor is it the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even the US presidential election.
No, hot news in the UK this morning is the kerfuffle surrounding entertainers Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand who find themselves embroiled in mounting criticism over crude phone calls the pair [...]
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I got this letter in the mail yesterday from TV Licensing. I could tell from the envelope and the red ink that it was likely not good news which was confirmed the instant I opened it and read the contents.
That big bold paragraph mentioning “our Enforcement Division” conjures up an image of a stealth [...]
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Quite a bit of commentary in the blogosphere and twittersphere greeted the news that pop icon Britney Spears now has a Twitter account (actually started on October 10).
Known as therealbritney, Spears’ presence on the micro-blogging service is the front end, as it were, of “brand Spears,” run as it seems to be by her [...]
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A part of the world that’s not constantly front-of-mind for many people in the UK is Latin America.
One country that’s an integral part of that region is Costa Rica, nowadays a popular holiday destination and a place I call a second home having lived there for much of the 1980s. It’s also my wife’s [...]
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I bet this isn’t an image you’d naturally associate in your mind with the word “poverty.” It wasn’t the first thing I thought of.
Yet according to a survey carried out last year, 20 percent of kids in the UK think not owning a mobile phone is a sign of being poor. The same number [...]
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With all the bad news about the economy, bank bailouts and who knows what’s next, email scammers are very quick off the mark as this email, in the FIR comments Gmail account this morning, suggests.
It’s worth repeating:
If you get any email from your bank, or other financial company who you do business with, that [...]
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