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The Death of Mobile Signature?
This is one of the painful posts I have had to write in my life, but it is a post that must be written.
In 2004, I started utilising the services of the company to host some of my clients websites. The service was ok. Then it started degrading. As a believer in giving people opportunities, I persisted. After all, this was a young man trying to make a living in this difficult country.
But, it seems Mobile Signature could not manage its success. They expanded. Moved to bigger offices. Employed more personnel. But their service did not improve. Support calls not being answered. Services paid for not activated. Customer care officers just being rude.
Now all contact numbers are switched off. Emails delivered, not replied. Now, am on a man hunt for members of staff of Mobile Signature Ltd. Not to cause them harm, but to find a way of retrieving my domains which are locked in with them. I have lost a number of customers because of their poor lack of service.
Update: removed the name of one of the founding members of the company because he requested I remove it.
Beware of Fraud – Interswitch
A mail is going around, sent by http://www.interdatabase.net claiming to be from Interswitch. Please note that is a faudulent site. DO NOT ENTER YOUR CARD DETAILS.
I did a whois on the domain, and the registrant has gone to great lengths to hide his/her/their identity. As you can see from the whois information, it was registered on 15 October 2008. It screams FAKE all the way. Please be careful.
I did some investigating on the site, viewing the source, I found a link http://www.abbey.co.uk/CsAppsExp/Abbey/Internet/Abbey/html/demo_html_ebanking_0.htm Unless the fraudster is from the UK, I do not know the correlation.
When you submit the form, no matter what you input, it always sends you to an error page. Ofcourse, they must have stored your information.
The error page then takes you to another page, claiming to "update your information". Still fake.
^^ is the actual interswitch website.
Please pass this message to your friends.
Nokia, Wake Up
I love using Nokia phones. Even better than the iPhone, but one drawback exists. Nokia refused to implement a USB charging system. Now, Nokia, that is just plain stupid. In this age, with the USB power source becoming ubiquitous.
“In information technology, Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve the plug-and-play capabilities by allowing hot swapping, that is, by allowing devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the computer or turning off the device. Other convenient features include providing power to low-consumption devices without the need for an external power supply and allowing many devices to be used without requiring manufacturer specific, individual device drivers to be installed.
USB is intended to help retire all legacy varieties of serial and parallel ports. USB can connect computer peripherals such as mice, keyboards, PDAs, gamepads and joysticks, scanners, digital cameras, printers, personal media players, and flash drives. For many of those devices USB has become the standard connection method. USB was originally designed for personal computers, but it has become commonplace on other devices such as PDAs and video game consoles, and as a bridging power cord between a device and an AC adapter plugged into a wall plug for charging purposes. As of 2008, there are about 2 billion USB devices in the world.[1]
The design of USB is standardized by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), an industry standards body incorporating leading companies from the computer and electronics industries. Notable members have included Agere (now merged with LSI Corporation), Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Intel, NEC, and Microsoft.”
Thanks Wikipedia
I currently use a Nokia E61i and intend moving to the next grail, E71
Numerous competing devices already support USB charging. Blackberry phones support USB charging. The iPhone supports USB charging. Chinese phones support USB charging.
The benefits of USB are immense. Charge and sync is one. Easy access to power is another, I can easily plug into almost any USB and quickly receive a charge. Lighter, I wont need to carry around the bulky power adaptor, just a simple USB cable.
Nokia, wake up. You are a market leader, and that lead is rapidly diminishing.
Nokia developers, here read this note (http://www.girr.org/mac_stuff/usb_stuff.html)
