Thursday, July 24, 2008

iPhone : A Look through


What makes iPhone a great business phone? Simple. The same features that make it a revolutionary mobile device. With iPhone 2.0 software, iPhone does even more for your enterprise. It supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar, and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.
Apple : The best phone for business ever.

Screen and interface
The touch interface of the iPhone is a touch screen that can be used with a stylus or just the fingers. The screen's resolution is 320 by 480 pixels and measures 3.5 inches.

The display has three sensors. The first is the proximity sensor, which allows automatic turn-off the moment the phone is placed near the user's ears or face. This is to lengthen the life of the battery and to avoid spurious input from the face and ears of the user. It also has a 3-axis accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, that is able to sense the phone's orientation so it can accordingly change the screen. The third one is the ambient light sensor, which adjusts the brightness of the display, depending on the surrounding light quality. Music playing and Internet browsing can support the three screen orientations, although videos can only be viewed in the wide screen orientation.

Audio & Music

The quality of listening is a familiar experience, and though a portable MP3 player is never likely to capture the full sweep of sound quality, it does make a fair job of the task in hand.

And another word of warning: if you don't have the headphones plugged in, the iPhone plays audio over its built-in speaker. The volume doesn't go dangerously loud, but it's still probably classified as Asbo-worthy.

There's enough capacity for around 2,000 songs, which will be plenty for casual users – those who use existing music phones or lower-capacity iPods - but is likely to disappoint hardcore music fans. I found myself wanting a little more space; and not just for music.

Video & Imaging
The iPhone can't capture video; the camera is for still images only. This is a real pity; most other cell phone cameras can at least capture low-resolution video for candid video shots, and some can do much better. Many higher end handsets capture video at 320 x 240 or better, good enough for posting something on YouTube. The N95 captures VGA (640 x 480) resolution video. Only the BlackBerry 8800 can't capture video, and that's because it doesn't have a camera.



Friday, April 4, 2008

Invisible mode is here for Gmail chat

Sometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can't be bothered by anyone else. And going "busy" just isn't enough -- you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisible mode for the latest version of Gmail chat last Friday. With this feature, you can appear offline, and still send and receive messages. If you're using AIM in Gmail, invisible mode also makes you appear signed out on the AIM network. Invisible mode is one of the most requested chat features and so we're happy to add this option, starting in Gmail Chat, and in the future all Talk clients.



As some of you have already noted, chat could be less useful if lots of people go invisible. We'll keep an eye on it and look for your feedback to be sure we're doing what's best for the community.

Source : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Trends in cybercrime and online threats

Republished from IBM : Trends in cybercrime and online threats

IBM Internet Security Systems has noted a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. By attacking the browsers of computer users, cybercriminals are now stealing the identities and controlling the computers of consumers at a rate never before seen on the Internet.

Underground brokers are delivering tools to aid in obfuscation, or camouflaging attacks on browsers, so cybercriminals can avoid detection by security software. In 2006, only a small percentage of attackers employed camouflaging techniques, but the rate of attacks using such camouflage tactics soared to 80 percent during the first half of 2007, and reached nearly 100 percent by the end of the year.


These and other trends were reported by the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force team in their 2007 Trends Report.

Download the report here

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Grab your Live email address

Connect and share anywhere

I just found out that Microsoft now allows email addresses to be set up with @live.com.



For me I had to sign up using @live.ca (muneer AT live DOT ca), since I my name was already taken in .com by som other, but it seems that whatever region you are in, you can set one up, and because it is fairly new, lots of names are not taken yet.

You can either go to live.com or even hotmail.com I think. You will have to sign up using a prxy from the country you want, if you dont want the one that you are actually from.

Following are the list of domain that are available for signup.

Country - Domain

Argentina - live.com.ar
Australia - live.com.au
Austria - live.at
Belgium - live.be
Canada - live.ca
Chile - live.cl
China - live.cn
Denmark - live.dk
Finland - windowslive.com
France - live.fr
Germany - live.de
Hong Kong - live.hk
Indonesia - windowslive.com
Ireland - live.ie
Italy - live.it
Japan - live.jp
Korea - live.co.kr
Malaysia - live.com.my
Mexico - live.com.mx
Netherlands - live.nl
Norway - live.no
Pakistan - live.com.pk
Peru - live.com.pe
Portugal - live.com.pt
Russia - live.ru
Singapore - live.com.sg
Aouth Africa - live.co.za
Sweden - live.se
Switzerland - windowslive.com
Thailand - windowslive.com
Turkey - windowslive.com
UK - live.co.uk
USA - live.com
Vietnam - windowslive.com

USA (you@live.com)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=en-us&revipc=us&ts=4129709&sh=NxSF&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1

Canada (you@live.ca)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=en-ca&revipc=CA&ts=4129709&sh=NxSF&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1

UK (you@live.co.uk)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=en-gb&revipc=GB&ts=3969059&sh=fz0s&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1

Argentina (you@live.com.ar)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=ES-AR&revipc=QA&ts=4240058&sh=IToW&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Australia (you@live.at)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=DE-AT&revipc=QA&ts=4240060&sh=UjUY&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Belgium (you@live.be)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=FR-BE&revipc=QA&ts=4240061&sh=lmID&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Chile (you@live.cl)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=ES-CL&revipc=QA&ts=4240062&sh=SEVV&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Denmark (you@live.dk)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=DA-DK&revipc=QA&ts=4240064&sh=5qDo&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

France (you@live.fr)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=FR-FR&revipc=QA&ts=4240065&sh=10qO&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Ireland (you@live.ie)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=EN-IE&revipc=QA&ts=4240067&sh=OBKd&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Italy (you@live.it)

https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=IT-IT&revipc=QA&ts=4240068&sh=SqdX&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Japan (you@live.jp)

https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=JA-JP&revipc=QA&ts=4240069&sh=j9MS&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foverview&rollrs=04&lic=1

Mexico (you@live.com.mx)

https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=ES-MX&revipc=QA&ts=4240069&sh=k*LB&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Netherland (you@live.nl)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=NL-NL&revipc=QA&ts=4240071&sh=H0h0&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Norway (you@live.no)

https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=NB-NO&revipc=QA&ts=4240072&sh=oEuT&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1

Russia (you@live.ru)
https://signup.live.com/newuser.aspx?mkt=RU-RU&revipc=QA&ts=4240074&sh=BO3P&ru=http%3a%2f%2fmail.live.com%2f%3fnewuser%3dyes%26hm%3d1&rx=http%3a%2f%2fget.live.com%2fmail%2foptions&rollrs=04&lic=1


Grab your ID & have fun with windows live !