“Out in Atlanta, GA, Christina Lee and Michael Saba have been receiving a lot of knocks on their door for the past 11 months. These visitors all have one thing in common: they’re looking for their lost/stolen smartphone. At least 12 visitors have shown up at the couple’s Atlanta home, many with police officers, looking…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people, are being threatened by some faulty logic. First, it was social networks and online communication, where all sorts of mean behavior was being blamed on anonymity: After people-rating…
Sadly, I recently saw this news about a WordPress plugin that I’ve come to rely on: I currently use Social to accomplish two things. One, to automatically post a link to any new blog posts on Twitter and the Facebook page for this blog. That’s simple enough to replace, and there are a ton of…
According to recent research, not really. It isn’t any more of a drain on productivity than the same old things we did before the Internet. That’s not the only surprising thing you may find in this article: The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work On what we waste the most time doing…
“When Netflix still had your typical vacation policy, employees asked an important question: “We don’t track the time we spend working outside of the office—like e-mails we answer from home and the work we do at night and on weekends—so why do we track the time we spend off the job?” Management listened. They couldn’t…
Image by frankieleon With the news this week that the Hyatt breach may have included up to 250 hotels, I think it’s time to just admit that your credit card info is probably out there somewhere. If it wasn’t grabbed from this hotel chain, at another, or at an online store, or through some other…