In April, a young man called Amir decided to sell a broken laptop on eBay. This kind of thing unfortunately happens regularly, and the scammers never get what they deserve. Or almost never. Clever scammers can get away with it,…

We’re in the peak of the Web 2.0 wave, with betas for all sorts of web apps coming out of our rears ears (that was a genuine typo!). Some are good, some are absolutely brilliant, but some are just dire.…

So you’ve seen blogs where you need to enter a few characters to verify you’re a real person and not a super-duper-spam bots. Ever struggled to read the characters? I know a few times I smirked and thought it wasn’t…