Geekonomics

Revolutionary digital music offer will be available on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic devices, as well as the Nokia N96, Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 multimedia computers.

Singapore – Nokia will deliver music loud and clear to local music lovers with its revolutionary Comes With Music service when it is launched in Singapore in the coming weeks, making it the first market in Asia where it will be available.

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It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited over a new phone. Even though the Blackberry Bold has been around for a while and I’ve kinda resisted getting it for months. I was simply blown away when I finally got it. It’s like falling in love all over again. Sorry, I did say I’m a geek right?

I installed a nice theme on the desktop with 13 icons, loving it!

It’s back – the war on spam’s cat and mouse game continues. When the McColo hosting company was shutdown on November 11, 2008, it was predicted that the event would present an obstacle for spammers looking to get their message out in the short term. But now, spam volumes have returned to pre-McColo shutdown levels, accounting for over 79 percent of all email in recent days.

New botnets in Latin America and Asia are increasingly Read more…

What would your Valentine like this year? Perhaps a shopping spree or a watch? And how can you prepare for the big day – do you need more cash or… an assortment of weight loss pills?

Less than two weeks before 14th February, Valentine’s Day spam’s already in full swing. Spammers have been busy making sure they have the ‘perfect’ gift for your loved ones this year.

Researchers at Symantec have compiled a list of the top 10 Valentine’s Day spam headlines. Read more…

Singapore – Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the new .tel top level domain (TLD) has announced that Landrush – the period when Singaporeans can purchase any available .tel domain name with no auctions and no extensive reserve list – is now open.

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Interesting innovation by the Japanese. Can be very useful indeed.

Norton just sent me this on one of my newfound FAVOURITE topics, internet safety and parental control :

Computers, Wii, Playstation, and Xbox. What do all of these have in common? They can connect to the internet and kids love to play games on them.

But what kind of games are your kids playing? Do they contain violence and pornography?

And are they at risk of being infected by viruses, malware, and other online threats?

There are various steps parents can take can be taken to make the gaming environment safer for your kids. Read more to learn about the parental controls that can help provide the protection that you want.

• How to check which games are appropriate for your child
• Parental controls
• Tips to broach the subject with you child
• How you can supply the parental wisdom, judgment, rules, and oversight

For more details, check out Ask Marian, Norton’s family-oriented blog here.

Going to suffer from Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter Law big time. No wonder the stock markets crashed when he got elected and again when he was inaugurated. I’d (or anyone for that matter) now seriously think twice before starting a business in the United States.

In a meeting of doom and gloom at the World Economic Forum in Davos, surprisingly LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman was one of the very few optimistic ones..