Tag: shopping
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Commerce in a post-Wikileaks economy
You’ve likely seen the news that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are under distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks by folk who feel that WikiLeaks headman Julian Assange is being persecuted for distributing sensitive information he...
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It’s Computer Shopping Season — Tech Types in demand.
It seems that around this time of year, the dog days of summer, friends and relatives start pinging me with questions about buying new computer hardware. I’ve come to call this time of year Computer Shopping Season. My own unscientific observations of this trend have concluded that there’s a bit of a marketing push happening…
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From the ‘so simple why didn’t I think of it’ category
A friend of mine pointed me to this brilliant post (via iPhone Central) The concept is simple; Scan the front and back of all your barcoded membership cards, and carry them around in your iPhone. To test it out I went to the local hardware store and asked the girl behind the counter if she could…