November 16th, 2009
By Tim Attwood
On Friday we reported some issues around phishing attempts against mail2web.com users. The phishing scam requested that mail2web.com users email their username and password to a websupport@mail2webmaster.com.
We have now received further reports of phishing emails sent that appear to be from “info@mail2web.com”. The email indicates that your account has been deactivated and asks you to run an attached utility in order to restore your mailbox. The attached file is in fact a malware utility which may be used to compromise your account.
As before, we recommend that all mail2web.com users exercise extreme caution when it comes to such suspicious notification emails. We will never ask you to send us your password, and we will never instruct you to run such a utility to restore your account.
If you receive any emails of this nature, please err on the side of caution and report it to abuse@mail2web.com or contact us at 1-877-MAIL2WEB before following any instructions.
If you have fallen victim to one of these phishing attempts, please contact us for further assistance.
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November 11th, 2009
By Birge Basik
The world is ready for a new mobile operating system. Samsung has announced that its new open mobile operating system ‘bada’ will arrive in the first half of 2010. It will compete with existing open platform operating systems such Android and LiMO. bada’s software development kit will be available little bit earlier, but you’ll see this on the market in December.
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September 30th, 2009
By Birge Basik
The Palm WebOS 1.2 Update is now available although it is being reported that it contains some serious ‘Exchange Sync’ problems. It’s supposed to improve calendar syncing and e-mail capabilities but fails severely.
There are many people from different forums having Exchange Activesync problems after installing the web O.S 1.2 update. Palm is aware of the issue and they are working on it but unfortunately they haven’t found even a temporary quick fix. You can check their forums from time to time to stay updated. Plus we will share all the news on this subject with you. Don’t forget to check our forum, too!! 
We believe that Palm will need a strong patch for webOS 1.2.1 to fix this syncing issue. If you haven’t yet updated to WebOS 1.2, we advise against doing so for the time being.
If you are also experiencing this problem breaking Exchange EAS on your Palm Pre, please share your thoughts with us!
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September 25th, 2009
By Melissa Smich
Once upon a time, print ruled the world, journalists were information gatekeepers, and we had to dial to get internet. Days have changed and this free flow of communication has rendered PR initiatives a daunting task. Communicating today means reaching out to entire online communities, as opposed to the handful of journalists one would contact in the past.
My boss, Celal, and I were discussing a strategy for creating a branded video that could spread virally throughout the online world. I must admit, I was distracted by the smell of my burnt Colombian coffee, secretly shaking my fist at Mark, our VP of Technology. He was taunting the office by enjoying a specially imported organic Brazilian, which he received that morning with great enthusiasm.
Celal continued, snapping me out of my coffee-trance, explaining that there’s no equation for a successful online viral campaign, but it must be interesting, easy to share and humorous in order to spread like wild fire.
He continued by suggesting a creative agency, with a professional demeanor, boasting years’ experience and proven results; All I could think was that it lacked imagination. Maybe it’s because I’m the kind of girl who loves American Psycho and The Game, but I’d prefer something with a little more edge and enthusiasm, controversy and creativity – something out-of-the-box and boundary pushing.
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September 23rd, 2009
By Melissa Smich
SoftCom is holding its first video contest with Grand Prizes of $1,000 and paid contracts up for grabs.
The Challenge: My boss wants a creative agency; I’m convinced more talent exists in university students and through the creative people within my social media circles. He and I now have a wager on which will rein glorious ruler over the viral video world.
The objective: To present our company or products/services (Softcom Inc., mail2web.com and/or myhosting.com) in a unique and innovative fashion.
Videos will be featured on our site, and possibly youtube, digg, etc.
Creativity Is King: Documentaries and mockumentaries; commercials and faux-mercials; serious or hilarious; any new, out-of-the-box way to present our company, services, and products. Even the ridiculous, like Blentec’s “will it blend” videos, will be appreciated.
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September 15th, 2009
By Tim Attwood
myhosting.com announces Web Hosting Endowment Program and offers free email hosting, Web hosting and SharePoint to companies and organizations that bring a positive influence to the community.
Toronto (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 15, 2009 — myhosting.com, a leader in affordable and effective Web hosting services in more than 140 countries, today announced its Web Hosting Endowment program, which donates free Web hosting services to organizations that help the greater need.
“We believe in giving back to the community and help organizations that contribute to the greater good; it is part of our culture at myhosting.com.” said Celal Ulgen, chief marketing officer for myhosting.com.
Non-profits and other contribution-based organizations will receive Web hosting, Exchange Email and SharePoint through myhosting.com. More specifically, those organizations will receive the following free features…
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September 15th, 2009
By Tim Attwood
Starting today, you can enter to win one of three FREE web hosting packages! All you have to do is follow myhosting.com on Twitter and retweet a message announcing the contest.
To visit the contest page, please click here!
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August 19th, 2009
By Tim Attwood
As we mentioned in our previous post, Entourage 2008 Exchange Web Services was due to be released soon… It has now been released and is available in 11 different languages from the Office 2008 for Mac website. The update has been tested with our mail2web Mobile Email Pro service as well as our Business Exchange service and myhosting.com Hosted Exchange Email service, and works well. For those users who have already configured their accounts in Entourage and have installed the updates, you do not need to make any changes. Your account will continue to function as before.
And if you are setting up your account in Entourage 2008 for the first time, you can take advantage of the improved AutoUpdate support, which makes configuring your account even easier! One of the other new features which you can take advantage of is Task and Note synchronization to and from the Exchange Server.
If you haven’t configured your account in Entourage yet, when you start it for the first time you should see the “Account Setup Assistant”. If you don’t see it, choose the “Tools” menu and click “Accounts…”. Then click on the “New” button. Then you can follow these steps below to set up your mail2web Mobile Email account.
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July 30th, 2009
By Tim Attwood
Yesterday afternoon we released a number of new updates to mail2web.com that we weren’t able to complete in time for our last launch. Internally, we were calling this our “Phase II” update. Some of the changes and additions you might notice include:
An all new Check-Out process for our mail2web Mobile Email service. We’ve made a number of updates and improvements to the sign up pages which we feel helps streamline the process and make it easier to get activated with the preferences you want, and get started setting up your account. We’ve also prettied it up a bit with a little bit of Ajax and “Web 2.0″.
Along with the new sign up process, we’ve also made changes to allow you to sign up for the mail2web Mobile Email Pro service without entering billing information. This gives you the opportunity to try the full featured service without giving us a credit card.
We also reduced the pricing for our BlackBerry Service from $14.95/month to only $9.95/month. We hope this helps make it even more accessible than before. If you’re a BlackBerry user and haven’t yet tried out the BlackBerry (BES) Service, now is the time.
We also added a bunch of new content on our website, including an all new Android Email section. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 24th, 2009
By Birge Basik
If you are a PC user, Entourage may sound foreign to you, but for Mac users it means a lot. You might think of Entourage as “Outlook for Macs”. Recently Microsoft announced the release of Service Pack 2. This update improves the stability and performance of Microsoft Office applications for Mac. It also includes new applications like Microsoft Document Connection which enables you to work with the files that are located on a SharePoint site or Microsoft Live Workspace.
This service pack has some critical updates for Entourage. It has an important file called Proxy auto-config (.pac), which supports proxy Network settings of automatically configured Mac OS X. The junk e-mail filtering definition file is also updated and improved. Finally this update adds support for automatically configuring POP access for new Windows Live Hotmail accounts in Entourage. For further information, you can check Microsoft’s Web site.
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