One of the things that has made the Internet so popular is that it’s free! Anyone can pretty much, within reason, do anything they want on here. However, that may not always be the case.
Here’s a story about a blogger having to pay for her use of the Web:
>>Philly requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license
By Mark Hemingway
It looks like cash hungry local governments are getting awfully rapacious these days: View full article »
Having trouble keeping hold of your ATM card? Or is it your password that you struggle to remember? Well, all that may be a thing of the past very soon here in the U.S., if this CNN story is true:
>>Poland’s cooperative BPS bank says it’s the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM–allowing customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip.
The digit-scanning ATM, introduced in the Polish capital of Warsaw, runs on the latest in “finger vein” technology–an authentication system developed by Japanese tech giant Hitachi.
These days, when I talk with my fellow techno-geeks, the discussion centers around the recently released iPad portable computer. I’ve been intrigued to notice that our conversations follow a specific track–it isn’t IF we’ll buy it. Instead, it is WHEN we’ll each get ours.
For instance, one co-worker/friend who is retiring and moving to a warmer climate said she’s getting the iPad because she needs a new computer, and the iPad is very thin, light and portable. She also liked the thought that she would be the first person in the group to get the new “toy.” That means a lot to her, and impresses the rest of us, who prefer to wait.
I have some concerns about buying the iPad now besides the fact that I really can’t afford it. First, it doesn’t use WiFi and second, there is no camera in the machine … yet. As I did with the iPod and iPhone, I’ll wait maybe a year before I think about buying it. By then, they should have all the kinks worked out. But the iPad is on my mind so much that I posted a video about it in one of my first blog entries.
