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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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Hands up all those who remember when the entire NZ Internet was connected
to the rest of the world by a single 9600 bps modem and you had to pay
$10 a megabyte for traffic?
I suspect there aren't too many who have a Net-memory that extends that
far back -- but it appears that if you're looking forward to using
fancy new Net-services through your next-generation cellphone then
it's going to be a case of deja vu all over again.
Okay, this time we've got a lot more bandwidth -- but the price!!
If this story
from Computerworld is to be believed, users of GPRS cellphones will be paying
an incredible $30 a megabyte for their data.
I have
recently questioned the practicality
of Net-enabled cellphones on the basis of ergonomics -- now it must be
questioned on the basis of affordability.
Okay, so we're looking at early-adopter pricing here and it's a certainty
that prices will drop as time goes by -- but I still can't get over the
prospect of paying such a huge amount.
And what about the effect of spam?
Imagine -- a 10 Kbyte junk email offering to fix your credit, enlarge your manly
parts, or set you up with a massively profitable home business will cost you
30 cents to receive. Of course sometimes you'll pick them as being spam when
they have a subject such as 'FA$$$$T CA$$$H', but what about the ones that
have the subject line 'Re: appointment time'?
From a business perspective, will it will soon be possible to bankrupt your
competitors by mailbombing them?
But what do you think... will you be prepared to pay $30 per MB to access your
email and do a bit of web-browsing from your GPRS phone?
Share your thoughts.
Risk Management
Here's a little gem that an Aardvark reader sent me last week and I felt
was just too good to ignore.
The New Zealand Society for Risk Management
has started an email-based newsletter to disseminate useful information --
presumably about risk and its management.
Here is the cover note that accompanied the first issue:
Subject: RiskPost - NZSfRM Newsletter
From: Janet Simes
Dear Members
Attached as a word document is Issue 1, Number 1, of
RiskPost, the newsletter of the New Zealand Society for
Risk Management.
Janet Simes
Executive Officer
New Zealand Society for Risk Management
P O Box 41 016
Eastbourne
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone 64 4 562 8792
Fax 64 4 562 7252
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Did you spot the paradox?
"Attached as a Word document"... ????
Ha! Risk Management indeed!
Have they never heard of MS Word macro trojans and viruses? Or perhaps
the more subtle and harder to detect
remote template
trojan attack?
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