Phishing Update

In the Inside ID Conference report I mentioned "phishing" as one of the types of fraudulent activity that is happening on the Internet. There was a news story about phishing in the past few days — it is clearly on the rise and something to be quite careful about. I have personally received three phishing […]

Radio Talk Show

Sanjog Aul is the host of the AVVAL Radio Talk Show on Technology. The current series is entitled "Managing Technology The Right Way!", and I spent an hour talking with Sanjog this past Friday morning. We talked about blogging, WiFi, and generally about the future of the Internet. I enjoyed the discussion and unlike the […]

Talking With Your Browser

Someone recently said that using Google has added 20 points to our IQ. Other than using Google, however, most of us use a browser the same way we used it ten years ago. We type a url and wait for the web server to return the requested page to us. Opera Software ASA is changing […]

PC Forum – Day 3

PC Forum day 3 opened with a talk by Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business, Columbia University School of Business called “Defaults have value(s): How Do People Really Behave on the Web?”. His bottom line was that defaults have a huge impact on consumer behavior and he illustrated this point with many examples. He […]

PC Forum – Day 2

PC Forum day 2 was one of the best in all the 12 years I have been attending. It started out with Esther interviewing with Eric Schmidt, Chairman & CEO, Google. He wouldn’t talk about the rumored IPO but he was very bullish about the potential for Google. Eric then joined in on a panel, […]