Archive for 'IT Companies'

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Background: Earlier this month a hacking group released a list of almost 62,000 email accounts and their passwords. This list was made available publicly to one and all. The original list is not available any more. [...]

Collaborative Consumption #collcons

Collaborative Consumption #collcons

Collaborative Consumption as the term suggests is sharing, bartering, renting, lending or swapping of a product rather than owning it completely or forever. I first came across this term through the following video on TED by [...]

HP presents: Win Windows 7 PC

  I had earlier posted about soon to be released Windows 7 and the hoopla hoo about it. Image Source   Well, it is almost here – just 3 more days to go.   In the [...]

Coming Soon to the IT Shop Near You

  Haha! Hope you liked the title   Microsoft’s Windows 7 is scheduled to release on 22nd October, this year.     I am just hoping that it won’t be a major disaster like Vista or [...]

Friends for Sale

An Australian company uSocial.net charges you for spamming on Facebook and Twitter and find fans and friends for you.   Their charges are somthing like: from $177.30 for +1000 fans to $1167.30 for +10,000 fans. Interesting [...]

Facebook Privacy Changes

Facebook has announced some privacy changes to comply with Canadian laws; these changes will though affect everyone.   Image Source   These won’t be applied straight away, but should be expected in next 12 months. Applications [...]

Indian IT companies in New Zealand

Indian IT companies in New Zealand

Further to my previous post – Watchout World! India is Coming!! Jai Ho India!!! about India’s growth in last few years.     I think one of the major contributor to India’s economy is the outsourcing [...]

Watchout World! India is Coming!! Jai Ho India!!!

Watchout World! India is Coming!! Jai Ho India!!!

Who you calling Third World? – just read this article by Rakesh Krishnan, who is a features writer with Fairfax New Zealand. In which he talks about a kiwi’s experience in India and how India has [...]

Gmail becomes third most popular e-mail provider

This happened almost 2 years ago when I had called one of the local council services to reserve a community center. On being asked for my email I gave her my Gmail address and the response [...]

SmartPay buys ProvencoCadmus

There is some (good?) news from ProvencoCadmus. SmartPay buys ProvencoCadmus’ payments division. Provenco merged with Cadmus and became ProvencoCadmus around a year ago. But with recession and a debt of almost $45 million ProvencoCadmus went into [...]