90 percent of all email is spam.
Symantec reported this week that unsolicited email, junk mail or spam to you and I, made up 90.4% of all email on corporate networks last month. It appears spammers are working a little bit harder in order to get their messages past corporate spam filters. They report that almost 58% of spam is coming from [...]
Read moreGoogle wants to know which of its employees is planning to quit.
Google is worried about its talent quitting for better paid pastures new. Acknowledged as one of the better tech companies to work for, Google still feels the need to know as much as possible about its employees. It’s reported this week to be “crunching data from employee reviews, promotion and pay histories in a mathematical [...]
Read moreHow does senior management handle social networks?
Senior management is still trying to get a handle on the explosion in social networking and what it means for them and the company. On the one hand the idea of the employee as brand ambassador and the prospect of an overnight vital success is very enticing. On the other hand corporate embarrassment and the [...]
Read moreThe spammers are not getting any cleverer. I think they are getting younger.
“The voice of the chairman clove his speech with a cold accent.” That is the subject line of a spam email that has just been dropped into the trash by Spamsieve. The body of text is random ramblings like this: “somewhere, smiling out of the bow-window of a club, or taking off his hat to [...]
Read moreIt’s Phishing season on Facebook and Twitter
You’re probably aware of the term, I certainly hope you are. Phishers intend to steal your identity, usually by way of social engineering. They often try this with emails pretending to be from your bank for example, and directing you to a fake site using a similar URL to the genuine website, which asks for [...]
Read moreiPhone, iCal and MobileMe sync issues
I use iCal on the Macs as an organiser and have 4 calendars running plus a subscription to one on my wifes computer. These are all synced via Apples MobileMe service to the Calendar app on my iPhone. I recently noticed that any events created on the iPhone were not being synced to MobileMe or [...]
Read moreGmail Automatic message translation
Automatic message translation in Gmail This new feature is available to individual Gmail users as well as users of Google Apps. It’s expected to simplify communications among people who speak different languages and should make it easier for organisations who do business in different countries to communicate efficiently with partners and customers. The machine translation [...]
Read moreDid you really erase all that data from your hard drive?
Selling your PC? How can you be sure the data you erased has really been deleted from the hard drive. The short answer is you can’t. Simply using the delete key isn’t good enough. All that does is mark the space on the disk as useable again, and on a large hard drive the space [...]
Read moreWolframAlpha. Not exactly a search engine, and not exactly not a search engine either.
If you’ve been paying attention to the tech press and blogosphere then WolframAlpha will be in your consciousness somewhere. I’m not about to attempt an explanation of it here except to say that it’s not exactly a search engine but it’s not exactly not a search engine either. So what can you do with it? [...]
Read moreFarewell the humble Compact Cassette, how I wish I could still hear you wow.
I remember being wowed by the stunning stereo from a music cassette demonstrated to me by an early adopter with a Sony Walkman. That was a long time ago and we’ve lived through years of steady sales and not too much innovation in cassette players and recorders. Not to mention the miles of brown tape [...]
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