Archive for October, 2007
Poor quality information on the poor quality management of the data… (if you understand recursion…)
The IT Compliance Institute has reported that the number of affected customer credit card records that were nabbed in the TJX (TKMAXX) Data Breach a while back is actually double the amount originally thought.
Quoting from their coverage…
“Recently filed court documents indicate that the scale of the TJX data breach was essentially double what was originally […]Nuclear warheads go AWOL on a B-52
Various media (see below for links) have reported the story of the Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMs) that were flown from a base in North Dakota to a base in Louisiana, apparently by accident, and sat relatively unguarded at both bases for a number of hours before the error was noticed. The flight was supposed to […]
oops Amazon did it again…
Also from “The Register”, it appears that Amazon have again created ‘interesting’ relationships in their data that have had uncomfortable results for their customers.
We previously reported on the IQ trainwreck that occured when Amazon sent email recommendations for sex toys to people who’d never bought such items from Amazon. Today they seem to have gone […]It’s not only Amazon who have pricing trainwrecks…
Courtesy of the correspondents over at TheRegister.co.uk, we have the story of Woolworths.co.uk who advertised a childrens book for a somewhat astronomical price.. stg£99 million (and 99p) and then charged £2.74 delivery as well…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/16/rather_expensive_book/
This is the counter-weight to Amazon’s underpriced TV issues mentioned here previously.
The error is now fixed on the Woolworths site…A minor trainwreck… the importance of quality info on live TV
From the blog section of the Irish Times…
http://www.ireland.com/blogs/presenttense/2007/10/08/youve-won-nothing/
’Tubridy Tonight’ is a popular weekly TV show on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE. On Saturday last, the presenter was giving away a holiday to Chicago along with an amount of spending money. A caller to the show simply had to answer a question correctly… the question was “Which […]
