Internet - Part 31

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Top 10 Worst Company URLs

posted on August 22, 2007 in Internet with 3 Comments

Picked this up from my forum Hangout@TheDaneshProject thanks to maccaroni n cheese. What happens when you don’t put enough thought into you company’s domain name. Apprently these domain names were not examined from all possible angles before put out there for the public. 1. A site called ‘Who Represents ‘ where you can find the [...]

Skype service fully restored.

posted on August 19, 2007 in Internet with 2 Comments

Skype service has been fully restored after 2 days of outage due to problems with the login system. The people at Skype will be providing an announcement on what actually caused the outage on their blog, Heartbeat, this Monday 20th August 2007. Everything is back to normal now. All my Skype calls are going through [...]

Major Skype outage

posted on August 17, 2007 in Internet with 8 Comments

I’ve been having trouble with skype for the past few hours. I can log in to skype, make a call but when I key in my meeting number it does not go through. I keep getting errors saying “no key was entered”. The DMTF tones are not going through. Sigh… I had to go back [...]

Pownce invites for grabs

posted on August 7, 2007 in Internet with 9 Comments

What is Pownce? Pownce is the latest tool to come from the creator of the Digg. Kevin Rose(The kid who made 60million in 18months). It’s a social-networking and micro blogging tool. Pownce let’s you share messages, links, events and files with those who are within your friends circle in Pownce. The free version has a [...]

PayPal phishing

posted on July 25, 2007 in Internet with 1 Comment

Received this mail in my Gmail yesterday. Supposedly from PayPal. The pretend PayPal wanted me to update my credentials by login into a fake PayPal lookalike page. Too most unsuspecting users the mail would have seem 100% legitimate as seen In the screenshots below. They would have given up their user names and passwords without [...]

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