"Turns out a data breach at Winners' parent company, TJX Companies, was worse than announced in January (months after it was discovered). Far. Worse. "

" of the number of customer records compromised reach almost 46 million in the U.S., Canada, UK and Ireland. In Canada, only credit card records were stolen; in the other countries, debit and credit card information was pinched."

"This is some kind of karmic comeuppance for buying a cousin's wedding present there, I'm sure."

"There used to be rules about how you broke the news to a significant other when he or she had become, well, insignificant. After a certain number of dates, or a certain period of time, the IO was entitled to a face-to-face breakup, because under the circs, we should be allowed the mewl and whine and shriek and break things and make people stare at you, you heartless �"

"Um. Sorry. Issues. Right. Less time than that and you got at least a telephone or mail brush-off. Now, Dear John SMSs aren't unusual. But "

"A doctoral candidate at Berkeley says theorizes that the public record of the breakup is attractive � no questions about who dumped whom."

"In a way, I suppose it's a natural evolution. After all, we meet in the first place online now, don't we?"

" is � Apple's iPhone. It apparently made a �rare public appearance� at the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show in Orlando, Fla. �It lasted just moment, but it was easily the highlight of an otherwise uneventful morning,� gushes the story. The room became ablaze with paparazzi flashes, like Gwen Stefani had suddenly materialized on stage."

"Soon, we'll be seeing the iPhone in the gossip pages. It's already been linked to AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson (they were seen canoodling together at the CTIA show). It's only a matter of time before we're reading about it adopting under-spec'd cell phones from developing countries or going through endless bouts of rehab for battery over-consumption. And we'll eat it up, pathetic lot that we are."

"Seems Sanford Wallace, the very model of a modern major spam artiste, never tires of the game. He's faced lawsuits from AOL, CompuServe and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (which recently pinned him for $4 million) for his �online promotion� activities. Now MySpace is heaving sacks of lawyers in his direction, reports The Register, "

", groups and forums to blast users with the namesake of a certain delicious-with-eggs spiced ham product that's very popular in Hawaii. (As I've often said, I keep a can in my carry-on luggage so if my plane crashes in the Andes I won't have to eat a Uruguayan rugby team to "

"In completely unrelated news, my home e-mail account now boasts 5,357 �bulk� e-mail messages in my spam folder."

"Religious groups and online porn producers are in bed together in the fight to persuade ICANN not to approve a XXX top-level domain, reports "

"The fundies worry it'll double the amount of porn on the Net overnight (rather than the current online-porn-doubling rate of, oh, about six minutes); pornmeisters worry it'll �ghettoize sexual information.� (Yes, someone actually referred to it as �sexual information,� like it was a pamphlet on reproductive health.)"

"Surely, it's not just because it'll make it more transparent what is and isn't pornography, and make it less likely that porn sites can hijack misspelled URLs. Back in the day, Insider's favourite search engine was Infoseek.
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