Just stumbled on this incredible story about Victor Huang- a local diver whose camera was stolen by an octopus whilst filming off the coast of New Zealand. According to the story Mr. Huang was diving his brand new underwater camera near the Wahine Memorial between Breaker Bay and Moa Point on Wellington’s south coast when [...]

According to a study conducted by Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University- the human brain is capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships. Dunbar’s number, roughly 150, is a measurement of the “cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships”. Dunbar derived [...]

Computer users are being warned to be on their guard against a “cold calling scam” that could leave their bank details available to criminals. News sources have it that a number of people have been called by scammers pretending to be from the computer software giant Microsoft or an internet service provider, some of whom [...]

Some people really never give up do they? Okay. I’m all for perseverance, but this is just plain ludicrous. Thinking about it now perhaps the title of this post should rather have been Google Adwords SCAM Part II- because that is exactly what this feels like- A SCAM sequel If you’re still wondering what exactly [...]

Facebook has announced the launch of their “Friend Connection” targeting filter which allows advertisers “target friends of people already connected to their Facebook page, Application, Group or Event. In addition to harnessing the social graph by targeting your connections’ friends, every “Friends of connection” targeted ad promoting a Page or Event includes social content about [...]

A couple of minutes ago I received an email Titled “Important notice – please cooperate.” The email appeared to be sent from Google, as the name in the FROM field read “Google Adwords <AdWords@google.com>” For some strange reason though, Thunderbird- my default email client, warned that the message might be a SCAM . Needless to [...]

I recently  came across a particularly interesting story about Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with cancer in May this year. Turns out Drew began blaming everything on cancer- “Lost keys, wallet, Phillies losing.   Sixers picking a bad coach. Twitter going down and/or being slow.” On a lighthearted and optimistic note, Drew setup a website [...]

Over half a billion people use online social networks, and a vast majority of these users post huge amounts of information about themselves to share with online friends and colleagues. A new study has revealed that online social networks Leak Personal Information to Third-Party Tracking Sites, thereby putting Social Network Users “at Risk of Having [...]

For anyone who either saw a wall post or received a message suggesting that Facebook may have changed  their advertising policies to allow third-party advertisers use your posted pictures, please note that it is completely false! The Social Media Behemoth says it never made any such policy changes, categorically stating how it handles, and has [...]

The world’s “sexiest” Search Engine- Bing seems to have added fresh vigour to Microsoft’s stand in the “Search Wars”, spicing up the competition between Microsoft and Google, as both companies have since been battling it out, trying to out-pace the other with every given opportunity. First it was Google (in response to Bing’s “search market [...]