

Pop-up ads - My son Ben is in my office right now working on another PC. He has just turned around and said to me "I wish the internet had a thingy, like a little option thing, that blocked all those annoying pop-up messages you always get - I wish computers had one of them, don't you?"
"Yep - I sure do." I replied wisely.
"Who doesn't - the people that make the ads, that's probably about right - the people that make the ads probably don't want them to disappear..." he responded.
I think Google are on to something!
[Victor Echo Zulu]
When computers learn to talk. Big investments from the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sun are convincing some analysts that Web services will soon be a reality. But significant hurdles remain, McKinsey experts say. [CNET News.com]