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Spam drops 40% after California hosting service shut down

Finally some great new for us computer users, Spam has dropped by 40 percent thanks to a California hosting service being shut down. The hosting service used to host a major bot, which used to inflict so much pain on so many of us. Read more

Hackers use US presidential election for malware campaign

There are many of us who thought that yesterday’s US presidential election was a great time for us, but think again as we could now face a serious malware campaign. Hackers have seized information, and are now about to launch a major malware campaign. Read more

A sole email device by Peek, will it be a success?

With most mobile phones having an email function, do you think there is a need for a cheap email gadget that basically just emails? Well we should find out soon as Peek the company behind the email gadget is coming on September 14 to Target stores, although they say it will be available earlier on the web.

Peek (who were formally known as Txtbl) have posted some updates lately and also posted a photo of the gadget, which we have uploaded for you, they also have said that it is going to cost $99.95.

Ok, so we have a email gadget that sends and collects emails, it looks pretty smart in several colour’s, aqua, cherry and grey, slim form, has a full QWERTY keyboard and it worked over the T-Mobile network for $19.95 a month, and it’s said that there is no long-term contract, no mail rebate, no digital camera, no App Store, no MP3 Player, no SMS, no Web browser, no mobile TV just plain and simple email, oh although it does include Yahoo mail, Google Mail, AOL and the like.

Time will tell if Peeks email gadget will be a success, it’s hard to think with all the multi-use gadgets around that someone would want to possibly carry to devices instead of one, ok, it is slightly cheaper but adding the T-Mobile service on top it’s not that cheap, there have been a few one function successes the flip video camera has been one. But with such stiff competition for Peek we can only wish them luck.

Source: alleyinsider

Comcast Email and Webmail problems still an issue

We reported on May 29th about the Comcast Email service being hacked and their site showed a message “Site Is Under Construction”. This only stayed for a short time and then the service was up and running.

Today we are hearing from PR readers that there are still problems with the Comcast Email and Webmail service.

Below is a comment one PR reader sent in:

I’m in email hell with Comcast right now. For the past two weeks I never know if my sent email is getting to where it’s sent. It leaves but does not arrive.

I’ve spent hours on the phone to Comcast with no answers. Some emails arrive some do not. I can’t believe I’m the only one experiencing this.

Are there still issues with Comcast Email, do you share the same problems as above? Let us know in the comments.

Read other Comcast news here.

Comcast Email Hacked: Webmail security issues, comcast.net site is back up

It seems the importance of using a very strong password for emails is a must because the hacking of Comcast email service shows security issues. Many users do not understand obviously how important it can be, even though internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast using some of the most advanced email security solutions, wonders never cease to amaze because hackers can and will get through.

I have visited www.comcast.net this morning and it seems the site is down with a message on the homepage saying This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon but thankfully it is back up and running again, oops so no chance for you to go to Comcast net sign in to login. We all when going to a service like Comcast and other email providers that they use cutting edge email security appliances, but the whole truth of the matter is that much of the Web’s infrastructure is hacked together legacy equipment. In simple terms it is fair to say users should protect themselves from having their online identity compromised, the bottom line is that users should change their passwords frequently and then maybe this hacking problem may ease a little.

Let me say now that anyone using this service that has had the same password for some time now should really consider changing it, the current problems with Comcast web email security solutions proves that it’s vital for us to protect ourselves with effective online caution. Word of warning for those wanting to change passwords, DO NOT use birthdates, pet names or even family names, USE mixed up letters and numbers even down to using uppercase and lowercase characters. I would recommend you changing passwords once a month to be on the safe side,

You should be changing passwords weekly, but even security freaks don’t do it that often. Once or twice each month is really not sufficient, but it’s a lot better than nothing. It’s a simple email security solution that will help you avoid the problems that Comcast email users are having right now.

www.comcast.net is all up and running again.

Google Gmail Custom Time April Fools is funny an we love it

Google you little darlings, oh yes everyone loves April Fools Day for practical jokes and it seems Google are having a good laugh. Google have released their April Fools jokes onto us as the calendars hit April 1.

Welcome to Google Gmail Custom Time where users can send emails with a custom date in the past, putting it in the recipients inbox at the old date, pretty cool ah. You can send emails back to people dating right back to April 1, 2004 which is the day Google launched Gmail.

This joke has apparently caused a little Wikipedia war which is fun and interesting, this is what Google Say ““Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox)” and links to the Grandfather Paradox on Wikipedia. Someone changed the words “time travel” to “gmail” in a revision , along with the comment “Gmail starts a wiki-war by linking directly to this article on April 1st”

Check out the “Introducing Gmail Custom Time” site here

How does spam affect your life? Email, blog and more

Weekly I receive thousands of emails with most of them going into the junk folder, but there are still hundreds more that stay in my Inbox that are complete Spam. To make things worse, you still have to scan your junk folder to make sure an email has not gone in there that was not spam.

How does spam affect your life?

If you collect email daily I am sure most people see spam in someway, if you have a blog you no doubt experience comment spam. How does spam affect you and what do you do to deal with the problem?

Tachikoma USB Bandai: Email Reading USB Robot

Tachikoma is a blue little robot from the Japanese Bandai company.

After you have connected this robot to your computer’s USB port, Tachikoma will be able to read your emails, create and process applications and allow you to play mini games.

Below is a video clip of the robot in action

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Hotmail Outage: Microsoft e-mail users having trouble gaining access

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Internet Explorer 8 from Microsoft has landed: Well Private Beta Anyway

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D:Scribe email and SMS text pen: Technology just got better

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Dell acquires MessageOne email service in $155 million deal: Can they compete with Google?

Strange or not in the world of weird acquisition’s Dell have just acquired MessageOne email service in a $155 million cash deal. What we cannot understand is that MessageOne was co-founded by and get this Read more

Call of Duty 4 versus Halo 3: COD4:MW gets number one spot a week late

Ok so the Call of Duty 4 versus Halo 3 on Xbox Live is quite interesting really, apparently an email was sent out to CharlieOscarDelta.com subscribers with the email referring to Read more

Do you want a new Microsoft Xbox 360? Just email Bill Gates

Now this is pretty good if you are in need of a new Microsoft Xbox 360 because your old one is dead in the water. Ok we all know that there are reoccurring problems with the 360 and some say it is not the Read more