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Comparison Table of SMS Gateway Providers and some good mobile information

I’ve been trying to ramp up my knowledge of mobile and SMS. Every time I find a small tidbit of information it always leads me to 10 other things I want to read up on.What I found this morning:List of providers of short codes, short codes for SMS reverse billing and premium SMS, SMS messaging:Comparison [...]

Repaired my first malware infection without obvious clues as to the source

The last few times I’ve repaired a malware infestation, there have been some obvious clues to the infection source:  loads of “free” games, a couple suspicious browser toolbars, p2p file sharing software with a hefty repository of downloaded content, visits to questionable sites, etc…  This infection had none of the above.It manifested itself (probably due [...]

Is this really an Explorer issue?

via Windows 7 Fail – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab.Okay, I get annoyed with Windows’ design on a regular basis, but I don’t know that defaulting to showing file extensions for known file types is the right answer.I guess the real problem is that Windows 7, like every other Microsoft-designed Operating System, relies [...]

The rampant dismissing of social media

(This was inspired by Jason Fall’s post on the Sustainability of Social Media)What’s lost in the dismissing of social media as a fad is the fact that social media is simply an extension, through technology, of what has been around for ages. Determined people have always found a way to connect with others with similar [...]