On Message with Ben Gross

GrandCentral Mobile launched earlier this week. GrandCentral provides a single phone number for managing a set of phone services. The services has VoIP services, such as forwarding, simultaneous ring, custom rings, call management features, and many options for managing voicemail both over the phone and through the web. The new mobile service allows users to [...]

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2007 will be held from May 14th through 16th 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. User-centric identity is one of the main themes although the workshop covers identity broadly. Details and proposed sessions typically appear on the workshop site close to the event. The workshop is [...]

CHI 2007, will be held from April 28th through May 3rd, 2007 in San Jose, California. The annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). The conference is a mixture researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from academia, industry, and government. The [...]

During last week’s Web 2.0 Expo, Nokia released a series of widgets and a web run-time for the Series 60 platform. The web run-time is an instance of WebKit, which is also the rendering engine for the Nokia S60 browser as well as Apple’s Safari and the Linux browser Konqueror.
The widgets are similar to Apple [...]

Both Wired.com and Read/WriteWeb recently interviewed Scott MacGregor, the lead engineer for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Last week, the Mozilla foundation made release candidate 1 available for the upcoming Thunderbird 2.0 client. The final version is expected at the end of April. The Wired.com article focuses on the advantages of desktop email clients over [...]

The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites participation in the CEAS Live Spam Challenge. Participants will compete in filtering a live 24-hour e-mail stream delivered using standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3). All types of anti-spam technology are welcome including servers, appliances, proxies and personal filters. Participants will be allowed to use any network resource [...]

The Web 2.0 Expo 2007 will be held from April 15th - 18th, 2007 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. The event on emerging web technologies includes a conference, an expo showroom floor, workshops, and birds of a feather sessions.
The MySQL Conference and Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and MySQL AB and [...]

Yahoo! says that it will offer unlimited email storage as part of it’s upcoming 10th anniversary of Yahoo! Mail. The announcement includes a short description of the history of Yahoo! Mail from it’s roots in the acquisition of RocketMail and the initial 4MB storage limit. It’s an interesting read. The new storage quotas will gradually [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently suspended thirty-five Pink Sheet stocks that were touted in “pump and dump” spam. The suspensions were part of the SEC’s “Operation Spamalot” and will last for ten days. This move is intended reduce the amount of stock related spam, especially if the SEC continues to suspend new companies. [...]

The RSA Conference 2007 has made available video of select keynotes as well as audio of select sessions, and podcasts from conference speakers and participants. The material will be online until mid-May 2007. Anyone can may listen to the audio and podcasts, however individuals who did not attend the conference will have to register and [...]