It's not strictly a scam, but the techniques used by some businesses to persuade others to purchase domain names, often at vastly inflated prices, is becoming a serious nuisance. Why doesn't the domain name industry respond to scalping in the same way as the entertainment industry responds to ticket touts?
Clint Eastwood has thrown his hat into the ring with a SuperBowl half-time advert on behalf of, nominally, Chrysler but widely seen as pro-Detroit in general. Actually, it's much more than that.
Aviation: Kingfisher's finances cause concernIndia's Kingfisher Airlines is continuing to show that it's financials aren't flying.
Aviation: Malev ceases operationsHungary's national carrier, Malev, has ceased operations without warning, leaving more than 7,000 passengers stranded and thousands of ticket holders unable to travel.
Aviation: EU Airline tax starts international incidentChina has told the EU: if you want our business, scrap this tax. And in the meantime, we're not paying it.
Internet: Has Google opened a hole in your company's IT security policy?Several weeks ago, M logged into his company's AdSense account at Google.com to monitor the advertising revenue generated from advertisements Google.Com places on their websites. Later the same d...
Infotech: when wow turns to WTF: do you care about Blackberry 10?Were / are you an early adopter? Did/do you surf the wave of new products just because they were cool - or whatever the word was during the decades that "cool" was an uncool word? Did/d...