What’s up with SPAM ratio? What will your send me next email marketer?

As Neil Schwartzman in returnpath blog says about McAfee email report which shows that overall amount of email has grew up whenever the SPAM ratio remains the same: The very bad news: Overall email volume is way up so the amount of spam has gone way up too. Translation: there is a lot more crap clogging up the system. and the obvious advice: For marketers a move toward smaller amounts of relevant email is way ...

Internet Filtering: New Zealand joins the growing crowd

Last month NZ government has stealthy launched their filtering system. From now on, New Zealand Internet users are in good hands. Sad. Here is what their opposition says: Does New Zealand have internet filtering? Yes. The Department of Internal Affairs ran a trial internet filtering scheme in conjunction with Ihug, Watchdog, Maxnet and TelstraClear from May 2007 to September 2008. The system is now running with...

N900: how does it feel? sent it back to nokia after two weeks

One week later, the unit has hit me with a bug. No sound in the ear speaker. Sometimes. Two weeks of trying to find out the pattern. Reflashing, updating. No joy. Trying to debug the rather complicated sound subsystem without any useful documentation. Like a dozen of comments in the maemo bug with 20 votes, no answer yet from nokia only “internal bug open”. I really don’t feel like I have time for...

Oracle closes Kenai.com “to provide the best project hosting solution”

OK, this is the first one, how many are there yet to come? This action is being undertaken to provide the best project hosting solution for all of our customers into one location. Minimizing the number of current project hosting sites is a start in this direction. The consolidation process is underway and we will post notices about the plans and timeline as they become publicly available. and is it for bad or for...

Firefox mobile updated rc1

Fennec rc1 on n900 Still slow like … Well, slower than...