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After a few hours of trying to find a way to get secure email to work on a SE K608i (K600 consumer-centric series mobile phones), I finally gave up doing it myself and decided to “Ask Google”. I ran into this article by Branimir on how to get it work for a SE K700. And […]

In an old article from the Red Herring, describes a technology called Unlicensed Mobile Access or UMA. The article first describes UMA and its justification for being. It is described as simply an attempt by mobile phone carriers and network operators to keep their existing customer base and not loose them to complete pure-play […]

Rodney Jao has an article in Inq7.net about “Writing Secure Code” which probably should be renamed to “Microsoft Helps Developers Write Secure Code”. Anyway in the article, he describes the current scenario were developers are faced with writing code quickly at the expense of writing it securely. He also describes Microsoft’s solution to help write […]

Looks like Microsoft is trying to compete with Google in the online application space. First, Microsoft releases its web initiative called Live.com. Now Microsoft Watch reports that Microsoft is working on a new service called Live Drive (as part of their Microsoft Live.com suite of online applications).

The MSN team is working on a new Windows […]

In a PH-Cyberview posting (full article in Manila Standard), Chin Wong reveals that the PLDT.com row has finally been resolved.
THE Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. has quietly settled its landmark lawsuit against maverick Web site owner Gerry Kaimo over the rights to the PLDT.com domain name, ending an expensive six-year legal battle.
Visitors who go […]

An article in Slashdot annouces the release of Sun Global Desktop.
In the Sun Website, here is a description of this product:
Sun Secure Global Desktop Software provides secure access to server-based applications running on Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Mainframe and Midrange systems from a wide variety of client platforms and devices. The software […]

A Slashdot posting lead me to an article from Reuters about Oracle planning to enter the operating system business by buying a Linux vendor.
It said Ellison told the newspaper that Oracle wanted to sell a full range of software that, like Microsoft, included both operating system and applications.
“I’d like to have a complete stack,” Ellison […]

The Mobile Technology Blog has a write-up about some new US LBS statistics.
In-Stat has forecast US mobile location-based services to rise to 1.1 million subscribers by 2010, up from over 580,000 at present.
Unfortunately, I can’t access the In-stat link. So, the statistic above is all I have. Anyway, I believe this number should be higher […]

BusinessWeek has this article about “Software-as-a-Service Myths“. The myths are:

Myth #1: SaaS is still relatively new and untested.
Myth #2: SaaS is just another version of the failed application service provider, or ASP, and hosting models of the past, and will suffer the same fate as its predecessors.
Myth #3: SaaS only relieves companies of the up-front […]

Well, not the computer-type of virus but the biological one. In a Times of India Article, it is quoted that:
Of the 30 samples collected from mobile phones and the hands of healthcare professionasl, 12 samples from the former (40 per cent) and 12 from the latter (40 per cent) showed growth of Staphylococco aureus (a […]