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Samsung announced their Ultra Edition U100 really-thin phone, at 5.9 mm, back in January. Well a newer version, the SCH-C210, has just been announced in Korea.

Samsung announces 5.9 mm SCH-C210 cellular phone - Samsung New Release, April 25 2007

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Hello,

mail2web.com offers a lot of things but our flagship product is a gateway to check your email. By entering your email address and password we allow you to see the contents of your inbox, send, receive and delete messages as well as a host of other features. We don’t save your password or share your information with any third-party.

That’s obvious to many users but not all. Here are some common questions we get:

Q: I need to change my password.

A: We can’t if we don’t host your email. For example, if you are using a hotmail address, gmail or an address provided by your cable company, you must contact them to do administrative tasks like changing your password (or sign up with myhosting.com and we’d be happy to help:-).

Q: You deleted all my email. Please restore it immediately!

A: Well this isn’t exactly a question but we try and be polite when we respond. We don’t delete email. We can’t as we don’t have the password. Typically this happens when someone (or someone in the office / household) opens their desktop email client and ‘POPs’ their inbox. At this point all email is downloaded to the client computer. When logging into mail2web.com we display what is on the server and in this case it’s empty.

Solution: see if your provider can get you what is called an IMAP4 email account. We offer it at myhosting.com and it stores all email on the server so this would never happen.

Q: How do I view email messages that I have sent?

A: Unfortunately we can’t provide that functionality with mail2web.com. Again, we are only accessing your account for the time you log in, and have no ability to keep track of messages you have sent.

Solution: get a free account with mail2web.com LIVE. This is a feature rich, browser-based email account with calendars, tasks, contacts and more. And yes, it will keep track of your sent emails and even send email to a mobile device that supports ActiveSync.

When mail2web.com started our slogan was ‘It’s all about checking your email anywhere’ and to a large degree, that is still true. However, then ‘everywhere’ meant kiosks, internet cafe’s and anywhere you could access a web-browser (even through a PDA via http://mail2web.com/PDA).

Now, ‘Anywhere’ truly means anywhere your mobile device has access. And it’s not just email people want to access but all their PIM data (Personal Information Manager) like appointments, contacts, notes, journals, tasks.

To address the variety of mobile devices in the market we provide Blackberry, ActiveSync and even RoadSync options with our messaging solutions, but mail2web.com is constantly looking for new mobile technology to offer to our customers. If you are a vendor of a Mobile, ‘Push email‘ technology, we’d love to hear from you.

And yes, that wasn’t 10 questions but I hope you got the point.

Thanks,
John Carthy
V.P. Sales and Marketing
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.

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Greetings,

In the past couple weeks, our customers on mail2web.com LIVE and mail2web.com Personal Exchange plans have experienced some service interruptions. I want to take the opportunity to discuss these problems and try to explain what we have done to remedy these issues. Read the rest of this entry »

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We’re not quite sure how they did it, but Trusted Reviews either purchased or got their hands on one of those humungous 103-inch TV’s from Panasonic. And they loved it, giving the TV a 9/10 for image quality and a total score of 8/10.

Panasonic TH-103PF9 103in Plasma TV – Trusted Reviews, April 16 2007

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Now that I have your attention, I am excited to tell you about some changes we have made to our Affiliate Program. We have made it even easier for you to make money. Read the rest of this entry »

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Einstein fascinates because he seemed to be able to outthink nature itself. Although much has already been published about the great one, there’s yet another Einstein biography out, this one called “Einstein: His Life and Universe” by Walter Isaacson. And as is wont to happen, reviews follow…

John Updike adequately reviews the new Isaacson book in a piece in The New Yorker. He hits on some of the propelling forces and creative dystopias that pushed Einstein to the outer limits - things like a wondering mind and a wandering eye.  

The Valiant Swabian – New Yorker, April 2 2007

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Gizmodo got a hold of a Nokia N95 phone/GPS/computer/etc and was kind enough to review it for us…

The Gizmodo reviewer starts off with a significant negative of the device, namely complexity. The converged functionality of a device that combines — GPS, a music player, 160MB of memory & a microSD slot, 5MB camera & a 2nd CIF camera, video recording/editing, radio, stereo speakers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, office document viewer, HSDPA and telephony all in a 120g package — is both inspiring & intimidating. The commentator suggests that it would take days to understand the device, not to mention reading through the 140-page Nokia N95 User Guide.

Among other things, Gizmodo liked the GPS functionality of the N95 and the camera – they weren’t thrilled with the battery life, the price and the euro-centric HSDPA. Would they buy the N95?…in a word, no.        

Gizmodo’s Long-Ass Nokia N95 Review: Why it Rocks, Why it Sucks – Gizmodo, April 9 2007

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With a 9.3% market share, Sansa is outperforming all of the other iPod wannabes. And now, Sandisk has an impressive new-ish Sansa Connect (last year’s Zing with a facelift) Mp3 player should increase that market share figure to 9.3%.

The Connect has a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 4GB of flash memory with a microSD expansion slot, sized at 3.58×2.05×0.63 inches or 91×52x16 mm, and an internal speaker. The Wi-Fi enabled device can download music and access Internet radio via the Yahoo Music service – no computer required.

$249   

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While we wait for the superphones, the iPhone, LG Prada, N95 and the Meizu M8 to make their appearance, here’s some more car stuff…

The Washington Post had a look at the Hyundai Veracruz Ltd crossover SUV, and found it to their liking. The author test drove both the much-vaunted Lexus RX350 and its separated-at-birth near-twin Hyundai Veracruz, and preferred the Hyundai. He said the Veracruz looks better, drives better and is cheaper. Hmm…not sure about the looks better part…

That’s No Lexus, It’s a Hyundai -  Washington Post, April 8 2007

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We’ve been taking notes on the progress of D-Wave and its reputed breakthrough quantum computer for a while now. D-Wave’s credibility took a tumble at first, but at last report, things were looking up just last month, after it turned out that none other than NASA had fabbed their chip.  

But now, things are on the skids for D-Wave and its QC once more. A formidable array of doubters has arisen and they’re questioning D-Wave’s achievement, dismissing it as hyperbole and describing company founder Geordie Rose as a speaker of untruths…ouch. They seem to feel that while there’s probably some computing going on somewhere in the D-Wave contraption, it ain’t necessarily of the quantum variety. 

The doubting-est thomas seems to be one Scott Aaronson, a post-doc at the Institute for Quantum Computing, and someone who ought to know a thing or 3 about the topic. Aaronson’s blog Shtetl-Optimized lists his main reservations about the D-Wave QC, which can be summarized as “too good to be true”.   

Another skeptic is Jason Pontin of MIT’s Technology Review whose viewpoint is captured via an interview with D-Wave founder Geordie Rose, at the link below. See also his notional article “A Giant Leap Forward in Computing? Maybe Not ” in the Sunday New York Times. 

One supposes that all/most/some of the above dubious-ness can be inadequately paraphrased to something along the lines of Sagan’s quotation/truism/witticism ”extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence“…and so it seems, the ball is in D-Wave’s court to supply more proof in order to win over the skeptics. Or…perhaps D-W can just buy them off by buying them a lunch or 2 (…hey, that works sometimes).   

Did D-Wave really demonstrate “the world’s first commercial quantum computer”? – Technology Review, April 6 2007   

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