George on October 31st, 2008

I got 3 emails at my webmaster email today that were pretty much the same scam, actually they were phishing emails. One I got pretended to be from Enom.com, and the other two (below) pretended to be from Network Solutions.
PHISHING/SCAM EMAIL #1
Subject: Attention: domain is expired.
From: networksolutions.com [mailto:tech@networksolutions.com]

Dear Network Solutions Customer,
We recently notified you [...]

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George on October 29th, 2008

The Blackberry Storm looks and sounds like a businessman’s dream, featuring almost real touch screen buttons, and according to a Youtube video I watched there is a docking station that turns it into an alarm clock while charging.
Some features:

camera (don’t all smart phones have cameras?)
Bluetooth
GPS
Wi-fi
music playback
browser uses real HTML
handles Blackberry mail

Now all that’s needed is [...]

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George on October 23rd, 2008

The Gmail blog’s latest A picture is worth a thousand words post heralds the arrival of more emoticons both for email and chat. If you email – more emoticons. If you chat – more emoticons. If you do both EVEN MORE EMOTICONS.
As a side note I just tested them out in an email and they [...]

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Talking about the addition of languages and faster, smoother support for people on the go Gmail for mobile: faster, smoother, and now in more languages lays out the details, but interestingly enough the T-Mobile G1 with Android is not mentioned at all:
… Gmail for mobile 2.0 is designed to be more reliable in low signal [...]

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George on October 23rd, 2008

In one word, yes. But one word just doesn’t do justice the issue of addressing linux as a desktop OS to replace Windows and its huge established base of users who are used to a “simpler” desktop operating system. I love linux, but unfortunately:

I have to go with what I know
I don’t have the [...]

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