It is sometimes more difficult to delete an account than you would think -- and sometimes impossible.
This article shows how to [or how you can't] delete accounts from: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google, Ebay, Wikipedia, Flickr/Yahoo!, Windows Live, Stumbleupon, Wordpress.com, Amazon, YouTube, PayPal.
[/sarcasm on] In what will surely be ecstatic news to the Palm faithful [/sarcasm off], HP CEO Mark Hurd said today "We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. And I tell people that, but it doesn't seem to resonate well. We bought it for the IP. The webOS is one of the two ground-up pieces of software that is built as a web operating environment...We have tens of millions of HP small form factor web-connected devices...Now imagine that being a web-connected environment where now you can get a common look and feel and a common set of services laid against that environment. That is a very value proposition."
The people that his news does not resonate well with just might be all of the folks that have believed a large company buyout of Palm would bring them more handheld innovation and products; not less.
Apple being looked into for Anti-Trust issues(development)
Something (else) to be aware of if you were considering iPhone development.
Apple Anti-Trust investigation is possible over the recent Apple move to prohibit developers from working with any type of cross platform tools to create iPhone/iPad applications.
There is a fair amount of questions over the scope (and motive) of the Android virus reported in the following article
However the recommended scanning techniques -- including scanning add-in memory cards -- is useful for all mobile users today. And will only be increasingly so, in the future.
"Overall, the Agreement is a very one-sided contract, favoring Apple at every turn. That's not unusual where end-user license agreements are concerned (and not all the terms may ultimately be enforceable), but it's a bit of a surprise as applied to the more than 100,000 developers for the iPhone, including many large public companies. How can Apple get away with it? Because it is the sole gateway to the more than 40 million iPhones that have been sold. In other words, it's only because Apple still "owns" the customer, long after each iPhone (and soon, iPad) is sold, that it is able to push these contractual terms on the entire universe of software developers for the platform."
While they are going to want to work out the product name trademark with recognizr; this looks to be something that is both cool (and creepy).
Using the camera, your smartphone can focus on a person's face and automatically display all of the social networking sites that they are a member of. You can then drag/drop the networks that you would like to communicate with the person on, and associate these with the person's profile. We aren't sure if this is going to work out to the benefit of women, or children, using mass transit, or just out in public -- but it's one of many things that are on the way.
The bottom line? Think through what information you place (anywhere) online. It will be there permanently.
Something to be aware of if you were considering Acer Liquid phones, is that only the newly released Liquid e runs the latest Google Android 2.1 OS. The previous Acer Liquid does not. Make sure to get the "e" version when buying.
Did you ever enjoy hearing a jiggle associated to a cherished product from your youth; feeling a little reassured that the product was still available?
Did you ever wonder why ventures like Monday Night Football fight to keep the same intro song -- even when Monday Night Football changes networks?
There is a value to branding a product; and not changing that branding so that customers KNOW what the product is immediately; just by a tune or a logo. This might even pull the customer in to pay closer attention than they would to unknown tunes and logos.
Well, this is something that Microsoft does not understand (or give much of a hoot about).
As announced at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, "Windows Mobile" is now "Windows Phone 7 Series".
Yes, the OS itself has undergone a complete change; to something much more Zune-like with tiled icons.
And, Yes, all of the third-party companies who have printed brochures; help files; web-site text or logos that describe their Microsoft compatible applications as "Windows Mobile"-based will be paying ... again ... to change the text to "WP7S".
If the third party has been in business long enough, they might have also enjoyed repackaging their products along with the following Microsoft platform name changes:
2010: Windows Phone 7 Series. 2009: Windows Phones. 2007: Windows Mobile in Professional, Standard, and Classic editions. 2003: Windows Mobile in (Can you stand it?) Pocket PC Premium, Pocket PC Professional; Pocket PC Phone and Smartphone ...
We previous thought that the dumbest thing that Palm ever did, was selling out to Microsoft to run the Windows Mobile OS on TREOs.
(see the actual September 2005 moment below); effectively neutralizing Palm as a player.
In a Neville Chamberlain moment, Palm's CEO Ed Colligan extols the virtues of bringing WinMob to the TREO. Notice Bill's look to the Verizon CEO Denny Strigl, as the benefits that this brings to PALM are explained.
But, now we have this infoworld article bringing to light The PalmPre's privacy grab.
No, users DO NOT want their information monitored continually. No, users don't want their data sprayed around to un-named third parties. No, no, no.
Just because one company (or government entity) attempts to do this, does not make it right. Or acceptable.
Palm, et al: Get your customer information the old fashioned way ask your user for it.
If you are one of the many registered users of Skype, the news that the original founders (now at Joltid) are litigating to prevent eBay (the current owner of Skype) from using a piece of the core technology is sad news. See the news link above for more.
BitPim 1.0.6 (freeware) http://bitpim.org/ A neat Windows, MAC OSX, or Linux based tool that lets you see (and change) data; including calendar, phonebook, wallpaper and ringtones on CDMA phones, such as those from LG, Samsung and Sanyo. For example, you can separately create your own 30 second MP3 and copy it to the phone ...whenever you want to ... without paying to buy a vendor-supplied ringtone.
Last updated: Friday, August 6, 2010 
