“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is [...]
Our report last March about Do Not Call Register compliance , or rather lack of compliance, elicited some favourable response from our readers.
We suggested in that report that it is wise for call centres and telemarketers to check what systems they have in place to ensure that they comply with relevant privacy legislations.
Last week, we [...]
Have you ever wondered what the sender of this seemingly harmless-looking email want to achieve?
Have a look at the email:
The message runs as follows:
新しいメールアドレスをお知らせします
新しいメールアドレス: email-add@yahoo.co.jp
Hello Dear.
My name is Mrs.Nawa Tomar. I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to you and the charity organization around your community. and I was [...]
From time to time, our favourite statisticians come up with happy and light notes about the numbers they collect. In a media release yesterday headlined “Festive facts and figures from the ABS”, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported in 2008, Santa will visit 3.2 million Australian families with children under the age of 15 [...]
Following St George shareholders approval last 13 November to merge with Westpac, management of St George has started sending letters to its customers to say that the bank will continue with its current number of branches even if a Westpac and St George branch are side by side. The letter also states that St George customers will not be levied an ATM fee should they use Westpac’s ATMs, and vice versa. That’s nice [..]
An Australian small technology company will soon pilot a battery-powered supercard which promises to stop up to $1 billion a year in credit card frauds, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today. The company is EMUE Technologies. Trials for the supercard would begin in quarter one 2009 with an Australian bank in conjunction with one bank each in Britain, Israel, Switzerland and Italy [..]