Archive for October, 2005
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I love collecting these. They get more creative all the time. The latest I’ve seen comes from a guy who calls himself Hassan Mohammed and he has a very creative sob story with the message title “Kindly Fulfill My Last Wish.”
He claims he’s from Dubai, in the U.A.E., (though he uses a French e-mail address) and has been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, with only a few weeks to live.
He says he was a greedy man who got very rich at the expense of others but, now, facing death, “I regret all this...
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The move to get high speed mobile data networks running across the country is set to accelerate again this week with an expanded system by another cell phone company. Sprint Nextel to Launch High-Speed Network.
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I’ve written a lot about lousy customer service from some tech companies.
How about an example of how companies should respond when things aren’t up to snuff?
It’s from Six Apart, the blogging company behind the Movable Type and Live Journal blogging platform and TypePad, which I use for this blog. Recently, access time has been slow. Sometimes over the past week or so, painfully slow. But instead of stonewalling or trying to minimize the problems, founders Ben and Mena Trott posted this entry: Six Apart – Mena’s Corner: The Ups & Downs of a Successful Service.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is so laughably inefficient that its big study on Internet use dates to 2003 as most current. The stats are so out of date that they are meaningless, like ancient history in the world of technology. Internet Use Up.
The Census Bureau is exhibit one when it comes to a dead wood bureacracy, trying to pass off two year old info as relevant today. How many bureaucrats do you supose dragged their heels in compiling this report?
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In an attempt to capitalize on Halloween, Microsoft and a coalition of consumer groups have gotten together to warn consumers about online fraud done through malicious programs that secretly install code on a computer, turning it into a so-called zombie machine controlled by hackers.
Computer criminals often use zombie computers to launch spam e-mail attacks that try to steal personal information, such as Social Security and credit card numbers, said Tim Cranton, director of Microsoft’s Internet Safety Enforcement programs.
To prove how vulnerable most users are to these incidents, Microsoft...
The despots who run the UN and the wannabes from the European Union are in a power grab to wrest control of the Internet from the U.S. Hands off the Internet.
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Readers are sendlng me lots of links and tips on how they’ve been able to get non-Apple provided video on their iPods.
While they insist it’s all quite easy, my initial read of the instructions for the tools they suggest has convinced me that it’s way, way too cumbersome for average users.
One free download that several readers suggested is called Videora Converter. A forum discussion is devoted to iPod conversions.
For DVDs, readers suggest starting with a free program called DVD Decrypter. But if you think that is a simple process, read how-to guides like this one. If you’re...
My NBC-TV segment this week looks at Halloween sites. Online Halloween info..
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There is something really addictive about holding an iPod video player in your hand, no matter how cheesy the program. And the limited shows availabe through the iTunes Muisic Store so far are pretty cheesy, indeed. Still, I believe this ultra-chic device will be viewed as one of those seminal technology moments that take digital entertainment to a new level.
Here’s my review of the new video iPod. Funniest thing in it is that Apple doesn’t want us to call it the video iPod. They want it referred to as just… the iPod. Sorry, that’’s not going to happen, Mr. Jobs....
Now Cingular Wireless is into this fast-developing trend, introducing a service for nonbusiness users to get BlackBerry-like mobile access to their personal e-mail accounts from AOL, Yahoo and MSN Hotmail on a cell phone. Cingular Introduces E-Mail Access on Cells.
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Comcast calls it Digital Voice and is rolling it out across the country in major markets like suburban Detroit, which gets it today. By year’s end, it will be in 20 markets and serve 15 million homes. MIKE WENDLAND: Comcast customers can now use Internet for calls.
Cost is $39.95 a month for unlimited local and digital access for current cable TV and Internet subscribers. It works with E911 service and has a dozen features like call waiting, caller ID and the like. And you can check and playback your voicemails through a Web page.
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I’ve spent much of the day running a new 30GB Video iPod through the paces. I’ll have a full review next week but here’s some quick impressions:
It comes in a typically slick and sleek Apple box, with the CD, instruction book, soft case, earbuds, USB2 cable, earbud covers and the video iPod snugly and ingeiously packed inside.
The unit is noticeably slimmer than other iPods I’ve used (not counting, of course, the Nano and the Shuffle). Gone is FireWire. All new iPods now work only with USB2… which is faster anyways.
After installing...
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