Archive for the 'Business Misc' Category

Consumer Poison: Planned Obsolescence

Friday, February 29th, 2008

While companies are spending billions of advertising dollars to convince you that their brand is cool, trustworthy, and reliable… behind consumers’ backs they are also paying their engineers to create products that will break down sooner than necessary. That’s so you’ll buy another one, and if they’ve caught you with their advertising, you’ll buy it [...]

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Sears.com / Kmart.com Installing Spyware On Your PC

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The online security community is alerting consumers to the fact that joining the Sears My SHC Community program results in spyware being installed onto your computer which tracks all of your internet activity- including logins to bank accounts and other personal data and sends it to a third party (not Sears). This is completely unacceptable [...]

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Consumer Choices Drive Outsourcing

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

North American businesses are increasingly outsourcing work to cheaper labour markets overseas. Many businesses don’t really like to do this, and consumers are now shouting about lost jobs and increased unemployment. But we only have ourselves to blame.
My parents own a small local company. They do their work in-house. They, and myself have had recent [...]

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