During payment, the user is presented with three default buttons for tipping: 20%, 25%, and 30%. When cabs were cash only, the average tip was roughly 10%. After the introduction of this system, the tip percentage jumped to 22%.
via The $144,146,165 Button ? notes.unwieldy.
Newspapers accounting for 90% of the circulation in Brazil have abandoned Google News.
Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers says all 154 members had followed its recommendation to ban the search engine aggregator from using their content.
The papers say Google News refused to pay for content and was driving traffic away from their websites.
Google said previously that the service boosted traffic to news websites.
“Staying with Google News was not helping us grow our digital audiences, on the contrary,” said the association’s president, Carlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto.
via BBC News – Brazilian newspapers pull out of Google News.
An Amazon Kindle user has had her account wiped and all her paid-for books deleted by Amazon without warning or explanation.
The Norwegian woman, identified only as Linn on media commentator Martin Bekkelund’s blog, approached Amazon when she realised her Kindle had been wiped.
She was informed by a customer relations executive that her account had been closed, all open orders had been cancelled and all her content had been removed, but has been unable to find out why.
via Amazon wipes customer’s Kindle and deletes account with no explanation | Money | guardian.co.uk.
Separately, young people have been warned they might lose control over images and videos once they are uploaded online.A study by the Internet Watch Foundation IWF found that 88 per cent of self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people are lifted from their original location and uploaded onto other websites.IWF analysts encountered more than 12,000 such images and videos spread over 68 websites. In many cases, parasitic pornographic websites are lifting photos and videos uploaded by teenagers onto social-networking sites. ®
via Four in ten Brits have had to change all their passwords to foil crooks • The Register.
This is my problem with cables, old Apple gadgets and other electronics. VHS video player anyone?
“Now, I’ve not used it for 25 years but it still works and I have a vague notion that a science museum might want to acquire it one day, and that’s why I haven’t disposed of it yet. This symbolises my problem: in wanting to be zen, I am horrified by modern disposable culture. The promise of recycling isn’t enough when something isn’t actually broken beyond repair.”
via The hoarder’s dilemma, or ‘Why can’t I throw anything away?’ • Reg Hardware.
It’s about time A&F had another lawsuit. Clean-shaven males had to wear a uniform of Abercrombie polo shirts, boxer briefs, flip-flops and a “spritz” of the retailer’s cologne, according to an “Aircraft Standards” manual, disclosed in an age-discrimination lawsuit brought by a former pilot. Among the 40-plus pages of detailed instructions: black gloves had to be used when handling silverware and white gloves to lay the table, the song “Take Me Home” had to be played when passengers entered the cabin on return flights and Jeffries’s dogs — identified in the document as Ruby, Trouble and Sammy — had different seating arrangements based on which ones were traveling.
Models on Abercrombie Jet Had Rules on Proper Underwear – Bloomberg.
Okay so there is a lot of buzz about this today but seriously people the point here is that it’s not a home it’s a business. I agree that you can choose who you allow into your home but if you choose to run a private hotel, guesthouse, B&B then you no longer have the same rights, you are a business and should be judged as any other business is.
It wouldn’t be okay for a high street store to discriminate, or an office to discriminate so it’s not okay for a B&B to either.
BBC News – B&B ruling: Discrimination a right – Nick Griffin.
Newsweek is going digital-only in 2013, a move that will be felt most immediately in the newsmagazine category but which points to challenges facing the publishing industry overall.
One has to ask what this means for Time.
via Newsweek Goes Digital-Only | Adweek.
I have no idea why they decided that you need a dance routine to sell this but it’s the first time I’ve ever wanted to purchase a Windows product so it clearly worked… The Surface Movement – YouTube.
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