It is being reported that Carly Fiorina, who was until recently the CEO of Hewlett-Packard may become the next president of the World Bank. Wow! I think Carly is an amazing business woman, and I have no doubt she’d make an excellent president.

I don’t know why HP decided to get rid of her. In my opinion, they didn’t give her a long enough chance after the Compaq acquisition. In any case, she’s moving on to bigger and better things!

Read: NYTimes.com

This is just too funny. Some guy is selling a Pancake on eBay and has turned the auction page into a blog!

Some crackpot researchers at StillSecure have conducted a “honey pot” experiment, no doubt to get some media coverage. This is what they found:

Over the course of a week, the machines were scanned a total of 46,255 times by computers around the world that crawl the Web looking for vulnerabilities in operating systems.

Once the vulnerabilities were identified, the remote computers launched 4,892 direct attacks with a staggering variety of worms, Trojan Horses, viruses, spyware and other forms of malware.

They also found that up-to-date patches meant that no attacks were succesful, and actually, that the number of attacks dropped considerably. Anyway, that’s not the problem with this article. How many people have a single computer connected directly to the Internet? My guess is almost zero. Most people have multiple computers, so they have a router. Or they have wireless, which also requires a router. Your router blocks the vast majority of these “attacks”. I am not saying their research is wrong, but it’s definitely misleading.

On the other hand, I suppose many routers could be misconfigured, in which case they wouldn’t matter. Ah who cares, just make sure your computer is patched regularly 🙂

Read: DenverPost.com

Sir Richard Branson arrived in Toronto today to announce Virgin Mobile, Canada’s newest mobile phone service:

A costumed Branson drove a big-wheeled monster truck over three cars to demonstrate – with his usual flamboyance – his intention to crush the competition.

The Virgin Mobile approach, pioneered in Britain and since exported to Australia and the United States, is to piggyback their communications traffic on somebody else’s wireless network – in this case Bell Canada’s – rather than building its own. Branson said he hopes that within a few years a “couple of million people” will switch to Virgin Mobile Canada, particularly if number portability is introduced in this country.

Interesting. Prepaid is not the way I like to go, so I probably won’t be switching. I just hope he makes enough of a fuss to get number portability in Canada so I can switch to Bell.

Read: Canoe

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