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At last,
the contents of Aardvark's "million-dollar ideas" notebook
are revealed for all to see!
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Qantas New Zealand went belly-up this weekend, leaving thousands of travellers
wandering around in a daze, wondering how they were going to get to their
destinations.
Surprisingly, TV reports screened last night indicated that there were still
people turning up to board Qantas NZ flights as late as Sunday afternoon --
unaware of the company's demise.
"How could this be" you might ask?
Well, perhaps one eagle-eyed Aardvark reader might have spotted the reason.
This reader reported that the
Qantas NZ website was
still accepting bookings even after the receivership was announced.
As of this morning the site was carrying a notice relating to the receivership
and attempts to book flights within NZ failed, the system advising that
no flights were available.
Napster's Last Straw: Fingerprints
It seems that Napster is really grasping at straws
now. As the recording industry prepares to deal a
death-blow to the world's most popular
file-swapping service, they've come up with what
they believe is a winning idea to stop the
exchange of copyrighted music in MP3 format.
What is this new technology and will it work?
Find out more at 7amNews/ShockHorrorProbe...
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However, it's not uncommon to find, even in these days where the Net has
become a key component of modern sales and marketing, that defunct companies
often fail to pull down their websites at the same time they lock the doors.
One has to wonder what happens to anyone who actually tries to buy product from a
defunct company through their website. Do they automatically get a refund
or do they simply become yet another unsecured creditor? Is it illegal
for a company to continue soliciting business through their website even
after it is aware that it is insolvent?
Psst -- Wanna Cheap Hard Drive, NOT!
Online auctions -- what a great way to sell products.
They're cheap, simple and sometimes it seems that you could almost retire
on the profits made from selling your old useless junk.
Obviously some people simply get caught up in the excitement of bidding for
bits and pieces -- but
this is stupid!.
Redefining The Word "Unlimited"
Note: Inspire have now updated their pages and there's
a comment from the company's managing director in today's
Feedback area.
What does the word "unlimited" mean?
Well my dictionary says:
unlimited (un-lim'-i-ted) a. not
limited; boundless; unrestricted.
On
this page
however, Inspire seems to have decided on an entirely new definition of the
word which, according to the small print at the bottom of the page, redefines
"unlimited" to mean:
Restricted to 10Gb of International Traffic.
So the well-regarded Collins English Dictionary says "unrestricted" and
Inspire says "restricted."
I wonder what the Fair Trading act has to say about this seeming arbitrary
redefinition of the word?
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