News!

Today, the computer progresses in an amazing speed in both good and bad directions. Let's look at some of recent news related to the computer.


First, I am going to introduce horrible news: The Internet Fraud. Common way of fraud which we can be victims of is one-click fraud. This temps us to click their advertisement, and they charge unbelievable pay for this. These sites have been found mainly in illegal sites such as porno sites, where ordinary people (at least we) will not visit. However, a research shows that they have started appearing in the common web sites, such as entertainment related ones. They are likely visited by young people; besides, the rate of case from entertainment sites exceed 50 % last month! We must be careful about that, for the crime is no longer foreign for us.


Now, positive news!


I found really interesting new product by Sanseido, Japan. It is called "Densi-Jiten," whose sound is the same as electronic dictionary; however, actually it means "electronic and paper dictionary" by a unique use of kanji. As you can guess from the name, it is the set of the electronic dictionary on the web site and paper dictionary. The cost is 3300 yen for English- Japanese dictionary and 8190 yen for Japanese dictionary. They are less expensive than I expected, and the company explains that they succeeded to reduce the cost by making both electronic and paper dictionary from one master at the same time.


In my opinion, this attempt sound pretty good, because this is the evidence that the good points of paper dictionary is reconsidered. It will be more useful and profitable if we can use new functions that only computer enable us to, while keeping using paper dictionary. Of course, this new product still have issues to overcome, and I am not sure whether it can survive competition among paper, electronic, and electronic-paper dictionary industries; however, it has just begun.


I do not think I will buy it because I already have one, yet it will be interesting to keep an eye on the future of the new product.