Bringo - an idea whose time has definitely come

clipped from www.folksonomy.org Bringo (a.k.a. nophonetrees.com) is the new site in town that aims to eliminate annoying customer phone tree waits. With Bringo, say goodbye to having to wait in a customer service queue to speak to a person that can help you with your problem. Stop Talking to Machines and Talk to a Real Human Tired of dialing 1-800 numbers and not being able to get through to a human who can help you? Here's how it works: Find the company you'd like to call by category (credit cards, mortgages, loans, health care) Enter your phone # (we will never disclose your phone number to anyone, not even your mother!). Wait a few seconds while we navigate the phone tree. When we call you back, pick up your phone and you're done. No more phone trees. nophonetrees.com/

Thank you Clement Wang and Mark Grazman!

Google Domination Continues-$100 Million Feedburner Purchase

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years. The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really derail it at this point. Huge congratulations to Feedburner. The company was founded in 2003 and has raised just $10 million in capital over two rounds. Portage Ventures funded their $1 million Series A round in 2004. The $9 million Series B round was closed in mid 2005 (second close in 2006), from Mobius Venture Capital and Union Square Ventures. Sphere It The above reported by Michael Arrington, but I must offer congratulations as well. I had some glitches with Feedburner and their customer service was always prompt and helpful. Much appreciated.

CAA looking for content for Joost

clipped from blog.streamingmedia.com Today, Joost announced that it had signed up Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to scout and secure new content for distribution on the online entertainment platform. This agreement shows the importance that online video distribution is going to play over the coming years for professionally produced content. CAA clearly represents some of the best music, movie, sports and media talent on its roster and potentially provides Joost with access to a vast amount of new content. I expect this deal will also enable some brand name stars to use the Joost platform to launch their own channel or online content offering. They should have more success via this route as opposed to another online video network as Joost will make sure the content is professionally produced and has nothing to lose by giving some stars a shot at creating their own programming.

Free and informative magazines

From Small Business Hub:
Direct

Direct is a magazine that bills itself as the information resource for direct marketers. I'd have to say I agree, as it each month it comes packed with great stats, stories and best practices all around building, keeping and using customer lists. It combines all this information into a slim 70 pages or so which makes it easy to carry around, and the articles are written in a way that entertains as well as informs. And Ken Magill does a great job with his e-mail best practices articles. Plus they have a nice companion website with tons of up to date info.

Small Business Impact & Deliver magazines

I lumped these two together because they both are US Postal Service publications, they are monthly mags that arrive at the same time, and together they amount to only 48 pages or thereabouts. Small Business Impact covers a variety of subjects, challenges and other issues facing small businesses. The articles are short, sweet and to the point cover everything from online marketing basics, to health care, to time management.

Streaming Media

I don't even know how I started getting this but I'm glad I did. This might not seem all that important to small businesses, but this magazine will prepare you for how people will be able to take in all kinds of content, and how you can use technology to put your company right in their faces, whether it be on a computer, TV, PDA, or whatever. It comes monthly and weighs in at over 100 pages, but it's an easy read. This month's issue had a good article on monetizing podcasts and video blogs, and another one on the television paradigm shift that had me thinking a bit.

Computer Shopper

I used to get this about ten years ago but couldn't take it anymore. It was just too big and heavy to even attempt to read. It must have gone on a diet or something because now it's under a 100 pages. And now I can't wait to get it every month. It gives me great reviews and coverage of products and services of which I need to at least be aware. In many cases it helps me decide which way to go in terms of buying something.

Now there are a ton of magazines out there you can get for free by giving up some contact information. I probably get over 20 a month, but there's no way I'm reading all of that stuff. But the above mentioned and a few others (like 1to1, eWeek and BrandWeek) are easy to read, easy to carry and still packed with good information...and did I mention they are free? You may want to check them out.

Guerrilla Mail-15 minute email addresses

Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

Mac firewall security flaw in Adobe CS3

clipped from www.macworld.co.uk Security experts are warning of an issue within Adobe CS3's Version Cue application which can disable a Mac's built-in firewall. An alert from the experts at Secunia warns that Adobe Version Cue disables a Mac's firewall when it is installed. It does so in order to set certain ports up for "controlled access through the firewall", the experts said.The problem is that the installer doesn't re-enable the firewall once installation is complete, leaving certain system services vulnerable to attacks. The security issue is reported in Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server, installed as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, or Web Standard editions, Secunia explains. There is a simple fix to the flaw, which is rated as "less critical" – users simply need to re-enable their Mac OS X firewall in System Preferences once installation is complete.

Adobe Cannes film competition reaches zenith

clipped from www.macworld.co.uk Adobe will announce the winners of its online documentary competition at a star-studded event at the Cannes Film Festival tomorrow night. As announced earlier this month, Adobe, Intel and the Vancouver Film School got together to promote a global documentary-making competition called Reel Ideas Studio. The partners gave film-makers a 23 May deadline to deliver their three-to-five minute short documentary - some film-makers will still be applying the finishing touches to their movie right now, as they have until 4pm today to deliver their entry (in Flash video format) online. Writer and producer Christopher Coppola of Plaster City, Dan Birman, professor of journalism at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, and two-time Oscar-winning documentary producer Robert Epstein will judge the competition and the winners will see their films screened tomorrow night in Cannes.

Adobe banking on its 'cool' factor

BOSTON--Adobe Systems sees the so-called YouTube generation as its next big customer base.

At the JPMorgan Technology Conference here on Tuesday, Adobe CEO Bruce ChizenCreative Suite 3 software packages. explained how his company sees the market for its line of

While Adobe has traditionally considered its base to comprise about 3 million professionals who return for each new software edition and continue to buy other Adobe products, that base is skewing toward nonprofessionals.

Chizen said his company estimates that there are about 38 million "aspiring professionals or amateur users" who want to be able to say they use what the pros use. They are now buying Adobe's lower-end packages. He cited several examples of young family members and friends who have suddenly become interested in getting "freebies." He contends that Adobe software is the new cool thing to have among the Web 2.0 set.

"Because of the social sites and sites like YouTube, everyone wants to create stuff that looks cool," Chizen said.

Chizen was pressed with questions from analysts on the price differences between Creative Suite 3 and Creative Suite 2 products. He initially said that because of CS3's new features and configurations, the comparison is akin to that of apples to oranges, but then he decided to answer the question.

"We still have lower price SKUs 'cause we don't want to alienate the 38 million-plus noncreative professionals. We have a lot of customer loyalty. We know customers will pay more, but we don't want them hating us 'cause we know that that will come back to haunt us," Chizen said. "I don't want our customers to have a perception of Adobe like the perception some have with Microsoft--like they're being held hostage."

Case Study of ARTS PDF vs. Adobe

clipped from www.inc.com For 10 years, Karl De Abrew and Sam Chandler had a happy, productive relationship with Adobe, developing plug-ins to enhance Acrobat PDF software and consulting with the software giant, based in San Jose, California, on developer support. And Adobe seemed just as happy with ARTS PDF, De Abrew and Chandler's Melbourne, Australia-based company; it even sponsored ARTS PDF's online community of PDF users, Planet PDF. By 2003, ARTS PDF had 30 full-time employees and half of its $3 million in annual revenue came from Adobe-related projects. But the two partners were plotting a move that once would have seemed insane--severing the relationship and instead competing with Adobe with a PDF product of their own. The problem was the way Adobe had begun treating third-party developers like ARTS PDF. Since the release of Adobe Acrobat in 1993, such developers had been key to Adobe's strategy. The company created the application with an open standard, giving any developer access to the software's specifications and a free license to create applications to extend its capabilities. Hundreds of third-party developers had based their businesses on Acrobat. ARTS PDF, for example, scored a big hit with a plug-in that, among other things, allows users to activate Web links in PDF documents, and sells the software on its own website, PDF Store. But Adobe's CEO, Bruce Chizen, who took over from co-founder John Warnock in 2000, had grown wary of working with outsiders. Warnock used to refer to the hundreds of third-party developers as Adobe's "ecosystem." Under Chizen's leadership, however, the company began reengineering the third-party plug-ins itself, incorporating them into new and increasingly complicated versions of Acrobat. That sparked concern among developers. If consumers could buy Acrobat software loaded with the latest extras, they would no longer need plug-ins.

Infosys -construction of campus in Trivandrum

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India’s IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd yesterday began construction of its first campus in Kerala.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the new campus here was performed in the presence of Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan. Infosys co-founder and board member K Dinesh said: “We have plans to invest Rs306 crore (Rs3.06bn) for expansion in the state and set up a state-of-the-art campus, which would include facilities for work and recreation for our employees.

Achuthanandan said Kerala was emerging as a key IT destination in south India.
“Infosys ramping up its presence in our state is a reaffirmation of this fact. The magnitude of Infosys’ investment in its development centre demonstrates its long-term commitment towards Kerala and speaks volumes about the world-class facilities on offer here for its employees,” he said.

Skype Spam

Maybe this is not new but it's the first I've seen, and it is very annoying. A message suddenly appears: Dear sir/madam,... on a skype conference with alot of angry people sounding off, some with obscenities. Whatever retrobates are doing this have found a way to jam the 'block' function, so that is no use. If you try to remove this message, it just pops up again, a total waste of time and increasingly irritating.

You can prevent this from happening by being more selective in your settings-enabling only people you authorize or who are already in your contacts to send you messages. It is just too bad that it has come to this for Skype as well.

Brian Eno's Visual Music

http://www.77millionpaintings.com/

Guy Kawasaki's Truemors

http://www.truemors.com/
Received mostly negative reviews when started, Seth Godin panned it "I disliked this project from the very first moment I saw the beta.", still it has already earned a top 10,000 Alexa ranking. Judge for yourself.

Leave a blog visiting card

clipped from gapingvoid.streetcards.com "blog cards" - printed bizcards with a Hugh MacLeod cartoon on front, your personal details on the back. Prices start $12.95 "Because they're funny..." Joichi Ito, joi.ito.com "I'll order some because at blog confabs, blog parties, and other blog events, I want to hand out a card with my blog address instead of my business card. I need blog cards. Don't you?" - Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com

Adobe Makes Alpha Version Of Apollo Available

clipped from www.efytimes.com Saturday, May 19, 2007: Adobe Systems Incorporated has made available for developers the first public alpha version of Apollo on Adobe Labs. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system application runtime that allows web developers to leverage their existing skills in HTML, JavaScript and Ajax, as well as Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex software to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. “RIAs have become a core element of today’s web computing experience. We’re working to enable this new generation of innovative applications to bridge the chasm between the web and the personal computer. Apollo will empower millions of web developers to make their RIAs first-class citizens on the desktop using the tools they already know,” said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect, Adobe.

Bangalore considers Curfew on Women Workers

clipped from www.forbes.com In a development that has women’s groups crying foul, the government in India’s high-tech hub of Bangalore is trying to make them stop working after 8 P.M., ostensibly for their own good. Questions about the city's after-dark safety have prompted the proposed work curfew. Interestingly, the huge software export industry and round-the-clock call centers in the state of Karnataka, where Bangalore is, have been exempted. In several states, tech firms get privileges because they are considered essential services and thus don’t have to follow all the rules for other businesses. Services like hospitals and railways are also exempt. For the less-favored industries like media, entertainment, shops and other commercial establishments, employers who violate the proposed law could be put behind bars for up to six months or fined 10,000 rupees ($245.45) to 20,000 rupees ($490.92).

Jajah

http://www.jajah.com/
Another for-pennies telephone through internet service.....

Innovative Ergonomic Mouse

http://perific.com/

Has anyone tried this mouse? Please, would love your feedback.

The Streisand Effect

A Web user and his information are like a grizzly and her cub. Come between them, and you're likely to get mauled.

That's what a group of heavyweight tech and entertainment companies learned last week when they tried to keep the lid on the code that could help break the electronic locks on HD-DVDs. On May 1, someone posted the code, which allows software developers to copy content from high-definition discs, to the social news portal Digg.com.

A consortium of companies such as Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), who have invested in the disc format, responded with a cease-and-desist letter, trying to strong-arm the site's owners into removing the code.

Digg's administrators cooperated; its users didn't. Crying censorship, they staged a digital riot, covering Digg's pages with links to the banned digits, printing them on T-shirts and immortalizing them in a song that's been played on YouTube more than 200,000 times.

Thanks to Digg's rebels, the HD-DVD encryption code has become another victim of the "Streisand effect," an increasingly common backlash that occurs when someone tries to muzzle information on the Web. When the Streisand effect takes hold, contraband doesn't disappear quietly. Instead, it infects the online community in a pandemic of free-speech-fueled defiance, gaining far more attention than it would have had the information's original owners simply kept quiet.

The phenomenon takes its name from Barbra Streisand, who made her own ill-fated attempt at reining in the Web in 2003. That's when environmental activist Kenneth Adelman posted aerial photos of Streisand's Malibu beach house on his Web site as part of an environmental survey, and she responded by suing him for $50 million. Until the lawsuit, few people had spotted Streisand's house, Adelman says--but the lawsuit brought more than a million visitors to Adelman's Web site, he estimates. Streisand's case was dismissed, and Adelman's photo was picked up by the Associated Press and reprinted in newspapers around the world.

Read the article: The Streisand Effect

Eyejot-video email!

Eyejot

Super easy and fun, get the widget, apply to site.....!

Adobe Live 2007 (and Free!)

clipped from www.whatdigitalcamera.com Adobe Systems has announced that Adobe Live 2007 is to take place on 5-6 June 2007 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London. Adobe Live 2007 is designed to help creative professionals from all areas of industry get the most out of today's technology. This year's event features guest speakers including Neville Brody, Hillman Curtis and Brendan Dawes, plus talks from Adobe and its partners, third party developers and authorised training providers. Over the two days, Adobe is offering the chance for you to immerse yourself in activities such as training, workshops and tutorials focusing on products such as Adobe Creative Suite 3. Mark Wheeler, marketing director Adobe Northern Europe, commented: “The UK creative industry is recognised throughout the world as a pioneer, always pushing the boundaries on what can be achieved. With Adobe Live we hope to help foster this creative energy and inspiration by bringing together leading visionaries across all areas of the industry” There is no charge to attend Adobe Live or the Adobe Live Developer Day. For more information and to register visit www.adobelive.co.uk/register

Your First Adobe Flex Application with ColdFusion Backend

Adobe Flex Application

Flex is a complete set of tools to develop rich Internet cross-platform applications based on the Flash platform. With Flex, you can create applications that not only have the "wow factor" necessary to please clients and users alike, but the "usability factor" necessary to make your application a real success.

Flex 2 has recently been released and can be downloaded at Adobe's Web site. This release includes Flex Builder 2 (an IDE based on Eclipse) and Flash Player 9. At Adobe's Web site, you'll also find tools specifically for ColdFusion such as the ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity package and ColdFusion extensions for Flex Builder. If you know how Flex 1.5 works, you'll be happy to hear that Flex 2 doesn't require a Flex server and that you can develop and deploy applications with Flex 2 for free using the Flex SDK (if you don't use the IDE).

A Flex application communicates to external services, and we find ColdFusion to be a perfect tool for providing those services. In this article, we'll walk you through the construction of an application with a Flex frontend and a ColdFusion backend. We believe that the integration with ColdFusion is so smooth you won't even notice you're transferring data from a remote server. The application you'll construct is a simple to-do list, but it will let us show you several Flex and ColdFusion features.

Adobe Reader for Symbian OS

clipped from www.symbianone.com Adobe® Reader® for Symbian OS™ software lets you to view Adobe PDF files on Nokia 6680 Smartphones and, Nokia Communicator 9500 series and 9210/9290 devices. Download Adobe PDF files to your Symbian device a number of ways — from the Internet, as e-mail attachments, or from your desktop. Quicker launch times mean you can open PDF files faster than ever. - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforsymbian.html 12 May 2007

Adobe Agressive in Southern India

clipped from www.efytimes.com Wednesday, May 09, 2007: Adobe India has announced its plans for southern India post the launch of its latest offering, Adobe Creative Suite 3 product line, which unites the Adobe and Macromedia product innovation to provide designers and developers with a broad spectrum of creative options for all facets of print, web, mobile, interactive, film and video production. There are six all-new configurations of Adobe Creative Suite 3: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Design Standard editions; Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Web Standard editions; and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.

DigitalPost wins Adobe Site of the Day

clipped from www.marketwire.com -- May 10, 2007 -- DigitalPost Interactive, DigitalPostInteractive, a provider of user-friendly Web platforms for digital media sharing and social networking, announced today that its flagship site TheFamilyPost has been selected as the official Adobe Site of the Day for Friday, May 4th, 2007. Adobe recognizes outstanding websites through its Site of the Day program.Site of the Day websites exemplify strong visual design, superiorfunctionality, and innovative usage of Adobe products. Site of the Day is one of the most popular sections of adobe.com. Adobe receives many Site of the Day submissions of excellent, innovative, and results-proven projects built with Adobe technology, and it features the best examples fromorganizations spanning diverse industries from boutique agencies, largecreative firms, partners, as well as submissions from enterprises and the public sector.

New 'SQ' Flash Cards Boast Fastest Speeds Available

clipped from www.gearlog.com There's a new flash memory card on the block, and he spells his name "SQ." Today, Xmultiple Technologies introduced a new breed of cards that it claims has double the read/write speeds of typical flash memory cards, such as Memory Sticks and mini- and micro-SD cards. Exactly how fast is double? Up to an unprecedented 60-Mbytes per second, according to Xmultiple. The company's 2-Gbyte cards already boast read and write speeds of 32-Mbytes/s and 22-Mbytes/s, respectively, while the 1-Gbyte version comes in at 24- and 12-Mbytes--that puts both of them miles ahead of the competition (typically 2- and 3-Mbytes read and write speeds). This also makes the new SQ cards especially appealling for Vista users looking to tap into the ReadyBoost feature. As far as pricing, Xmultiple says the cards will range from $18 (for the 32MB data stick) to $80 (for the 4-Gbyte card). The company has also included some pretty nifty features, including a USB 2.0 interface adapter--so you can connect to any USB port you desire--and something the company is calling "Xmultiple ShareCard," a chip-based firmware and hardware technology that enables SQ card users to swap data with each other while on the go without the need for a computer. Oh, and as you might have guessed from the picture, the cards can be inserted in any direction, making them pretty much idiot-proof too.

Phillip's goes green

clipped from www.gearlog.com Environmentally friendly technology is making waves. When companies like Apple or Dell announce that they have plans to make their products more environmentally friendly, they make news. Philips decided that their consumer electronics could use a green makeover as well, hiring an outside auditor to evaluate their products for energy efficiency, environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes, and green features and materials like flame-retardant components and recyclable parts.

Sun Completes Java Core Tech Open-Sourcing

clipped from it.slashdot.org "A year after announcing its plans, Sun Microsystems has made almost all of the core technology in Java available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). However, some of the code remains 'encumbered'; that is, Sun doesn't have sufficient rights to release it under GPLv2, and the company is requesting the open-source community's help in resolving these issues. Rich Sands, community marketing manager for OpenJDK community at Sun, would not say what percentage of Java's 6.5 million lines of code are encumbered, but explained that it is largely Java 2D graphics technology, such as font and graphics rasterizing."

Think Tank Reports on the State of Open Source

clipped from linux.slashdot.org AlexGr writes to recommend an account of a meeting a couple of months back of representatives from more than 100 software companies discussing the state of open source software. The outcome is outlined in a 16-page report, 2007 Open Source Think Tank: The Future of Commercial Open Source (PDF). Among the surprising conclusions: participants noted a growing similarity in methods between open source and proprietary software development. They predicted some kind of convergence, where the best of both approaches gets adopted in each camp.

The Secret of Apple Design

An informative article exploring Apple's unique and impressive product design. About five pages long; some of the most insightful information comes in the last few paragraphs. Read this if you've ever wondered why people "just feel better" using a Mac.

read more | digg story

How-To: Control iTunes With QuickSilver

"I love the ability to pause or skip an iTunes song on the fly without having to switch apps. Yet, short of holding your Apple Remote in your hand while web-surfing or working, iTunes provides no easy way to do so. In this tutorial I’d like to show you how you can configure Quicksilver on your Mac to make controlling iTunes more simple and fun."
read more | digg story

Encyclopedia of Life

clipped from www.eol.org

Worth watching....

Adobe to acquire Scene7

clipped from www.technologynewsdaily.com Adobe Systems Incorporated has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Scene7®. “Adobe is the ideal company to speed the development and worldwide distribution of our rich media solutions,” said Doug Mack, CEO of Scene7. “Our joint customers, partners and employees will benefit greatly as we create strategic integrations with Adobe products, raise the visibility of Scene7’s solutions and expand Adobe’s portfolio of hosted solutions.”

Microsoft pranks with oFone, Apples rolls eyes

clipped from www.engadget.com Seeing as the Zune was such a hit, Microsoft decided to repeat the success and tackle the iPhone before it even gets out the gate; friends, we give you the Microsoft oFone. Not to be outdone by Apple's multi-touch keyless interface, the oFone features not one or two, but three keyboards that can all pivot about the small central screen. Need to bag some wild game for dinner? No worries, oFone can do that too, simply extend the three arms (like in the pic above) and it apparently makes a decent boomerang. We're loving where they're going with this idea -- cool and unusable, just how we like our fake phones. Check the vid after the break.

Adobe enhances Flash in impressive revamp

clipped from www.pcworld.ca SAN FRANCISCO (05/07/2007) - Flash CS3 Professional, the first version of Flash released under Adobe's aegis, is arguably the most dramatically enhanced program in the new CS3 suite. Flash has two interacting components: ActionScript, Flash's powerful programming language, and the timeline-based stage, Flash's unique design environment for generating vector-based (scalable) animation. My only complaint with Flash CS3's predecessor -- Macromedia Flash Professional 8 -- was a lack of really exciting innovations in the design aspects of the program. I no longer have that complaint. The most exciting new features in Flash are on the design side, along with some fine-tuning and nice small enhancements in the coding environment.

JavaFX: Sun, Adobe and Microsoft Now in a 3-Way Race

clipped from blog.wired.com Good old Java is back. But this time it's a little leaner and a whole lot meaner. At JavaOne today, Sun Microsystems has unveiled details about JavaFX, its rich internet app development software and JavaFX Script, its own, new scripting language. The software lets developers create rich internet apps which rely heavily on graphics, audio and video. Using the Java platform as the base, these apps can be deployed to PCs, phones, game consoles and televisions. JavaFX even allows for some Ajax-like behaviors, such as instant data refreshes in the browser. It's the old Java mantra of "write once, run anywhere" all over again. It's also very close what Microsoft and Adobe are up to.

Adobe Fosters Student Filmmaking at Cannes

clipped from www.tmcnet.com SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is teaming with Vancouver Film School and Intel on Reel Ideas Studio, a global program to bring together student and professional filmmakers during the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival taking place May 16 to 27 in Cannes, France. The Reel Ideas Studio program features two documentary film competitions and an online community at reelideasstudio.com, where participants and winners will be highlighted.

Beware! Mumbai fast spreading worm

clipped from www.techshout.com May 8th, 2007 | Related entries: Internet, Security The next time you receive an email with the message ‘screen saver’ in the subject line, and it carries an attachment, beware. According to security experts at Mumbai-based MicroWorld Technologies, an email worm named ‘Conycspa.p’ is doing the rounds on the Internet. ‘Conycspa.p’ uses spammed mails that promise users a screen saver to users as a medium to infect PCs. Once a victim of this malware campaign downloads the attachment named ‘web.exe’ and tries to run it as well, the worm ‘Conycspa.p’ gets activated automatically. This worm comes with downloader Trojan capabilities as it tries to log on to many Web sites and bring in several Trojans, Adwares and Porn Dialers. Read the rest of this story >>

Indian International Toys and Gaming Expo 2007 Mumbai

IITE & GENKIDZ 2007

“TWO HUGE EVENTS, ONE BIG EXHIBITION”
THE FIRST & BIGGEST EVER B2B, B2C & B2F EXHIBITIONS!!

Indian International Toys & Gaming Expo 2007 will be India's Premiere exhibition focusing on Toys,Gaming, Sports, Apparel, Books, Infant & Baby Products & Children's Stationery.

GENKIDZ 2007 will be focusing on Education, Insurance, Banking & Health Care Services.

The Indian Toys & Gaming Industry is witnessing a tremendous amount of ongoing growth. This has been facilitated by the rapid growth in the economy. The projected spending on toys and gaming is estimated at US$ 1 billion per year.

IITE

ZapakMail record

clipped from www.techshout.com Zapak Digital Entertainment has won itself a world record. On May 4, 2007, the company announced that it had registered around 1,15,263 users for its email service called ZapakMail. This record-breaking number is estimated to be the largest number of registered users recorded by any Web site on a given day. According to Rohit Sharma, COO, Zapak Digital Entertainment, who confirmed this news, “We plan to roll out our mass media campaign from May 7, 2007 before which we conducted a teaser seeding with our TVC and Virals which has resulted in this disproportionate response. This is by far the highest number of registrations any Web site has garnered on one day. This is the first time a mail service is using 6-7 different creative routes to reach out to the masses and it has paid of for us.”