The ongoing battle against malware-friendly, child pornography-distributing ISP McColo hit a snag over the weekend when the ISP activated an emergency connection agreement and hopped back online. McColo's access was cut once again within hours of the reconnect, but the event raises security concerns over how such emergency contracts are negotiated.
Finally! A FREE and reliable sync conduit for Windows Mobile and Macintosh!
With many sync apps available in the market today, it’s hard to find a reliable and FREE tool which you can use to keep your PIM in sync. For someone like me, I don’t really care to sync iPhoto or iTunes with my Windows Mobile device. What’s of primary importance is my PIM - address book, calendar and the like. So say hello to SyncMate, a free Mac to Windows Mobile sync tool. This is something we’ve been waiting for! The free version comes with these features, including an epic SMS sending conduit:
* iCal synchronization Calendar synchronization has never been so easy. Days, dates, years ? you know everything. Never miss a day or a date! Synchronize calendar with SyncMate. Now you can sync your Google Calendar with SyncMate, too!
* ?ontacts synchronization With SyncMate we tried to help you keep your address books organized, both on your PDA and on your Mac. You can simply synchronize your phone or Pocket PC with your Mac and voila! Your both address books are complete. Synchronize your Google Contacts, too!
* SMS reader Read all your text messages not even touching your mobile device! With SyncMate the whole list of your SMS is in front of you.
* Device info plugin The most exact information about your Pocket PC right at your fingertips ? all you ever wanted to know about your Pocket PC.
This post is of course written with all due respect to The Missing Sync, which is still one of the most kick ass sync tool in the market today. It’s just not .. free. So if the crisis is hitting you hard, SyncMate is for you!
[photo c/o SyncMate]
Tags: macintosh, sync, SyncMate, WindowsFiled under: ATT, Verizon Wireless, Misc
While many industries are going through a bit of a rough patch (to put things mildly), both AT&T and Verizon are soaking up the sun. Or maybe that's just the beaming glow being emitted from their respective Q3 reports. Either way, AT&T reported a 2.0 million net gain in total wireless subscribers on the coattails of 2.4 million iPhone 3G activations, while it notched a 50.5% uptick in wireless data revenues and saw overall wireless revenues increase by 15.4%. As for Verizon Wireless, it witnessed 1.5 million net customer additions (excluding the 630,000 customers pulled in from its Rural Cellular acquisition), and it noted that data revenues -- which now comprise over a fourth of all service revenue -- shot up 42.5% to $2.8 billion. For numbers galore explaining just how well the pair did this past quarter, mount up your reading glasses and hit the links below.
Both AT&T and Verizon see very positive Q3s originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Semiconductor manufacturer Quantance has raised $12 million in a second round of funding. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company develops technology that it says can improve the data speed and battery life of mobile devices using third- and fourth-generation cellular technology. It plans to use this latest cash infusion to make its patented technology commercially available for 3G devices, which is where the company is focusing its business interests. The latest round of funding was led by new investors TD Fund and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) Capital contributed as well. Original investors Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The company expects to begin shipping its first commercial chipset in the second quarter of 2009. Release.
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You’d think that with all the viruses, malware, spyware and what not on Windows, Microsoft would offer some sort of protection. Well, actually it does, currently the service costs $49.95 per year and is called Microsoft Live OneCare. It’s one of the many things Microsoft has that’s easy to forget about. That’s not a bad thing, though, as it will be leaving on June 30, 2009.
To replace OneCare, Microsoft is working on “Morro.“ Morro is the project-name for its new, free virus protection program. According to the Reuters article, Morro is being designed to work on “smaller, less powerful computers.“ That probably means it is being made to work with netbooks.
There’s no word on what Windows platforms will be supported by Morro, though given that it will be released “the second half of next year,“ it seems natural to include Windows 7, though it will most likely work on XP and Vista as well. At least that’s what I would assume.
Rueters claims this is a direct shot at McAfee, which it could be. Although, I don’t know anyone who actually pays for virus protection anymore. Most everyone I know has Avast, or maybe AVG. This might be more of a shot at those programs more than McAfee. It seems a bit ridiculous to have to pay every year for a new version of virus protection for a computer, though it is needed. This gives Microsoft more of a chance to either control more aspects of computers, or manage to screw them up somehow (which is unlikely). It is more competition for free personal virus protection, and that can only lead to good things for the average user in the long run.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Microsoft Should Bid Again — and Yahoo Should Accept — Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company.
I did not notice nothing much today since i’m outstation and this terminal is kind of crappy. Well, that I got over 30,000 comments since I reset the bleeding server (moved from PW to GH) and then…that is a lot of visits.
And that…my latest comment got me wondered… JULIES BISCUITS TAINTED! Darn it! I loved them biscuits….so what else is NOT SAFE for me? About everything in Malaysia as the Ammonium BiCarbonate, the raising ingredient (aka baking soda…and soda etc) are the cause of it.
So my next comment is.. AVOID BISKUT JULIES!
This is about the best quick coverage I've seen, courtesy of paidContent. My first take is over at the Forrester blog.
¡Café apureño! “En Sono Video Riky nos sentimos orgullosos de ser parte importante en estos momentos, de la historia de las telecomunicaciones de Venezuela, al ser el primer agente integral en ofrecer a los apureños los tres primeros iPhone 3G“ dijo a con-cafe.com el Sr. José Carballo, Gerente General de Sono Vídeo Ricky, quien junto a Llanocel, son los dos únicos agentes integrales en ofrecer este dispositivo de Apple en San Fernando de Apure.
Desde el sábado tres sanfernandinos pagaron sus iPhone 3G y ayer martes se lo entregaron. Fotos tomadas con un BlackBerry 8130.
El primer agente autorizado en la capital de Apure y en Calabozo fue LlanoCel, de Gerardo y Antonieta de Milano pero hoy Sono Video Riky le gana en la carrera del Apple iPhone 3G Movistar.
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Yes people, it’s the time of the year where I’m synchronising my data sets over to the clusters of cluttered servers in the US just in case I loose my data. Did you know that stingy TELEKOM MALAYSIA is offering RM4 for a 2GB storage with such and such setup fee where one get it for nearly for free on the web. And talk about trying to upload 2 GB of data, takes days my dear as TM Backbone can’t even support that kind of infrastructure.
However, Me being Me..is a real jerk and well, I used my kakis in the hosting industry to let me upload that kind of back end data to their datacenter and in turn upload to my clusters. Somewhat redundant and well, since we already paid for the fiber optics to the TM Backend which is quite a lot. Really alot. Something like RM4000 a month per MB lot, when you take out a 155MB backend.
Still, TM being TM, it’s frigging 5 days already and my 148GB of uploads is not even 40% up yet….so guess who is the bigger idiot? Me or those sales rep from TM? No wonder their shares are now at an all time low of just over RM4 from a peak of RM13 before the elections, and now they are so skint of not paying the dividends. Yucks! Time to ditch em? Nope. Time to buy them out as they are..after all Terpaksa Menyeksa ..if you get my drift like telling Britain they can’t use BT!
If you don't need no stinkin' patches (they don't actually stink. I just couldn't resist saying that line). Then maybe a rare Bionic Commando lunch box? Now THAT's retro for you.