Remember when you were little how you were always taught that it's good to share?

Oh sure, it's always polite to share your toys or cookies.

But as we get older we are now finding out that it may not be such a good thing -- especially when it comes to sharing our personal and financial information on the Internet.

A recent study by Visa Canada revealed that many Canadians are in fact "oversharing" their financial information over their computers and cellphones which could put them at a greater risk for fraud.

The Middle East is a land of the most bizarre conveniences.

No, really: there, you can find stuff like a vending machine that spits out gold, or the Pizza Hut pie ringed with mini cheeseburgers.

Though what if you're on a date, say, and you've had your cheeseburger pizza and wooed her with a bit of gold?

You're back in your room and the moment's right but, ah, geez, your pockets are empty. What do you do?

Talk about a long wait. After numerous delays, Research In Motion is finally set to show the world its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and its first new BlackBerry in almost two years.

A hit would inject new life into RIM, while a tepid response could sound the death knell for a Canadian icon that's been shunted aside by the likes of Apple and Samsung. 

Investors have been betting on the former, evidenced by the fact that the company's stock price has more than doubled since last fall, though it's still nearly 90% below its 2008 peak of $147.

Scotiabank's Gus Papageorgiou thinks it can go higher, providing about a third of current subscribers upgrade and the company can get 4 million new users overseas, especially in countries where the BlackBerry has remained popular.

Ovum analyst Jan Dawson doesn't see that happening, however.

Facebook began almost nine years ago, and what also began almost nine years ago were warnings of what the social network could do to your career.

Indeed, merely months after Facebook launched in 2004, we heard immediately to watch what we posted, and for whom to let see. The wrong thing put online, it was argued, would cost you your job.

In some ways, this happened (a police dispatcher was canned for posting a bad joke in 2010, for example) and in other ways it was all a bunch of smoke.

But as American lawmakers order employers to retract policies that limit what their workers can say online, it's fit to run back the argument that got us here: should your boss make decisions about your employment status based on what you post to Facebook or Twitter?

One of the reasons for the great Facebook IPO flop of 2012 was investors' fears that the social network couldn't monetize its user base.

What good is a billion members, the thinking went, if you can't get a buck from them? Ad revenue can only go so far.

So Facebook has done some experimenting, and late last year, under much of the media radar, the social network unveiled a modest way to pry money from its users: charging $1 to private message anyone that wasn't on your friend list.

At the time, nobody noticed a $1 fee for a service they'd rarely use, but what will people say if that charge is boosted up to $100 per message?

Gangnam Style, of course, has become the viral hit of the year, having spread so fast across the web it’s made a little-known South Korean pop star a bona fide A-lister.

But lift the hood on Gangnam Style  and the peripherals are even more amazing.

We know about the views – nearing on 900 million now – but did you know PSY’s goofy clip has already become the most-watched video on all of YouTube?

How it’s done so is through a breakneck pace that’s somehow allowed it to eclipse even the Biebs, and it’s also made PSY a very rich man.

Late in summer, an of-the-times news report came out of L.A., where one restaurant was trying to preserve the traditional dining experience, no matter the cost.

The eatery, a place called Eva less than ten minutes outside Beverly Hills, unveiled a promotion whereby diners were rewarded for checking their cell phones at the door.

Should they comply, patrons would be given a five per cent discount on their bills. At its core, this was a discount for not being rude, tapping or yapping away on a cell phone during dinner.

Even at the time, just a few months ago, it seemed like many businesses ought to follow, offering any kind of incentive possible for the severing of such public, unabashed cell phone use. One business, now, has followed.

The vast majority of Americans consider themselves to be good drivers, even though 76 per cent of them eat or drink behind the wheel, 55 per cent speed, 53 per cent talk on a handheld phone, and 37 per cent drive when they're too tired, according to a recent survey. 

What's interesting is that most people quizzed are even more concerned about the behaviour of other drivers around them. Like texting while driving, for instance. 

Are Canadian drivers that much different? Probably not, according to recent research from InsuranceHotline.com.

While dangerous driving practices such as speeding or entering an intersection on a yellow/red traffic light are commonplace amongst Ontario drivers, these aren't the bad habits that really seem to annoy other people. Again, texting leads the way.

Machines are now getting so advanced that they’re soon going to be better than human beings at doing, well, everything, suggests Martin Ford in his book The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. 

Today, robots and automation are a greater source of job loss than outsourcing, he maintains. And things are only going to get worse, he predicts.

At the Flextronics solar panel factory in San Francisco, there are robots everywhere and few human workers, according to the New York Times.

All of the heavy lifting and almost all of the precise work is done by robots. The human workers trim excess material, thread wires and screw in a handful of fasteners.

"As production speeds continue to increase, there has to come a point where the only option is to get the humans out of the loop," Ford predicts. "In many industries, automation may penetrate more rapidly than we expect simply because a threshold is reached where people can no longer keep up."