Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School's online publication of business insight and commentary, recently spoke to Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess and CFO Betsey Nelson in Macromedia's San Francisco headquarters to explore where the company sees its opportunities and threats. The interview is now online...
China Mobile and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have launched a mobile phone banking SMS service across China. China Mobile customers can send a SMS message to 777795588 to obtain bank account information detailing fund transfers, donations, and expenditures. Blurb at...
A couple of days ago I mentioned the new Google SMS service, well, here is another SMS application for you to consider. The next time you are in Europe, and need help with translations, simply send your text to LingoPhone via SMS, and you'll get back a translated response. LingoPhone between...
Shelley Bard is a security expert, or at least that is what her bio suggests. But, well, you decide. Her new article on SearchSecurity.com recommends "Check for Web server vulnerabilities no less than monthly; update your Web server security policy annually or each time you upgrade or patch." Ok,...
Lots of attention is on the upcoming US elections. But, and this may come as a surprise to some Americans, there are lots of other countries out there, and many hold elections too! Australia is in the midst of election season, and the Australian Electoral Commission web site at...
Others have blogged this already, but it is important enough that I'll risk being repetitious. Google has created an SMS interface to its namesake search engine and information front end. Simply send a text SMS message to GOOGL (46645) and you'll get a return message with a response. Send "coffee...
The sites of The League of Women Voters (at http://www.lwv.org/) and The League of Conservation Voters (at http://www.lcv.org/) are powered by ColdFusion. If you find any other ColdFusion powered election related sites, please share.
The newly announced Macromedia Flex non-commercial/non-institutional deployment license enables individuals, including students, technology educators and individual developers to build and deploy Flex applications at no cost (except for a small shipping and handling fee). Participants also receive...
Apparently, I am not the only one who is addicted to Bluetooth, and thinks that Bluetooth support is a valid prerequisite when car shopping. :-) The Bluetooth Car Blog (at http://bluetoothcar.typepad.com/) is dedicated to Bluetooth, Acura HFL, BMW ULF, and more.
I bought a Motorola v600 GSM phone. I bough it because I needed a quad-band device (there are remarkably few on the market) with Bluetooth support. I have other requirements too, but those top my list. And so I bought the v600. And I just returned it. Here's why: The v600 is feature rich. I have no...