Insights

If you get an email with no description and just a link or some unrelated message, please be very careful. Although viruses are still a threat, the real threat these days is from malware websites trying to install malicious software onto your computer to track your keystrokes (to get important info) or hijack your computer to do other things using your computer as a proxy.

Apple supersedes Google as the world’s most valuable brand. The list is dominated by American companies including

1. Apple ($153bn)
2. Google ($111bn)

Nuclear Update
Random, long-term, unavoidable—a bit like life: the consequence of
nuclear radiation

An update on the nuclear situation.

Some call it the Apple tax, but the idea of the Mobile Me service by Apple is quite good. But is it up to Apple standards?

Many people talk about Gmail as the answer to Apple’s Mobile Me service.

Willcom, the lone remaining PHS provider in Japan is pulling out the stops. They are offering free phone calls to any domestic number for up to 10 minutes per call and 500 calls per month. See the campaign here (Japanese).

Recently we’ve all been inundated with information about Wikileaks, the website owned by Australian Julian Assange. Assange got confidential US government information and posted it on his website creating incredible diplomatic pain for the US government and other governments around the world.