Hitler being appointed the caretaker of a holocaust memorial museum. Osama bin Laden put in charge of a construction team rebuilding the Twin Towers. Kevin Rudd being asked to judge diving at the next Olympics, except for the backflip event. All of these are horrifying absurd scenarios the world wouldn’t want to be confronted with [...]
The notion of using advertising to recoup the costs of offering a service ‘free’ to internet users is definitely not a new one. Infact some would argue it’s practically as old as the web itself. I’d even go one step further and suggest that the majority of the internet (OzSoapbox included) supports itself in some [...]
In what was arguably the stupidest online based legal case last year here in Australia (followed closely by a Chinese company suing a UK blogger using Australian laws), news broke yesterday that Z-Geek won their legal battle against Jonathan Nolan, Greg Smith and their company Myrmidon Enterprises. In other news, it’s still possible to launch [...]
Some newspapers and some news organisations will not adapt to the digital realities and they will fail. – Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp I know charging Australian’s for news won’t work and you know that it won’t work. Surely I can’t be the only one who is over the sabre rattling that has been [...]
Books have been around for thousands of years so you’d think no matter where you were in the world a well established, competitive and widespread market would exist. With the widespread use of the internet logic would indicate that a product that has been traded for thousands of years would have a strong marketplace presence [...]
I was browsing over at news.com.au when I saw an ad with Jackie Chan pop up. This in itself isn’t that much of a big deal but the ad was for Kaspersky anti virus. Jackie Chan and Kaspersky antivirus…really? Unfortunately I didn’t screen grab it before it rotated and for the life of me I [...]
I don’t know if Telstra are trying to take the mickey out of Microsoft, but their latest ‘too little too late’ scheme, the T-Box, looks suspiciously like Microsoft’s original Xbox. Not only that but it appears to be able to do everything a modified X-Box was capable of, only the Xbox was released back in [...]
I haven’t been paying close attention but last I heard The Pirate Bay were about to be sold off to some clueless company Global Factory Gaming. Apart from sounding like a name some kid came up with for a school project they didn’t have enough money or something and the deal went bust. Meanwhile half [...]
If you’ve used the internet for more then ten minutes in your life you’ve invariably come across a dating website scam. Much in the same vein as lottery scams, where you receive emails advising you you’ve won international lottery draws you never entered, the dating scam email is usually features some unbelievable good looking woman [...]
Email for me has always primarily been a non-personal communication tool. Much like phone calls, it’s rare that I find myself at the keyboard writing out an email unless there’s a specific purpose. Yes, I’m one of those people that silently rolls their eyes when I answer the phone and hear the dreaded words ‘so [...]
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