Comcast picks Zimbra for online e-mail
CNet reports:
Broadband and cable TV company Comcast has hired open-source software company Zimbra to power a service called SmartZone that provides subscribers with e-mail and other online services.
Zimbra’s software provides a Web-based interface for e-mail, calendars, contact lists and instant messaging. SmartZone, geared for “triple play” customers who pay Comcast for TV, Internet and phone communications services, is scheduled to start arriving later this year, Comcast said in a statement.
Also involved in the deal are contact-organizing company Plaxo, which is set to supply software that permits subscribers to synchronize and manage their address books, and Hewlett-Packard, which plans to build and operate Comcast’s service.
Hello, my new name is Pidgin!
Following a legal settlement with AOL, Gaim has been renamed Pidgin and its 2.0.0 release is now available.
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
It’s a very good alternative to people who are using Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ and other chatting softwares like Jabber. Instead of having multiple messenger softwares installed, this time you can have only one software to use it all of it! You can be more organized and have less headache.
So chatters! It’s a must have application for you!
Web: http://pidgin.im
Another strategic move for Ubuntu Linux
We’ve been witnessing how Ubuntu to grow from a geek’s PC to consumer level, and now Zimbra Collaboration Suite is to offer Ubuntu Linux support. It means, slowly but surely Ubuntu is taking its place in the enterprise data centers, SME’s server rooms.
CNet reports: Zimbra offers two versions of its server software, the free Open-Source Edition and the certified, supported and fuller-feature derivative called the Network Edition for paying customers. The Network Edition previously was available just for Red Hat’s Linux, Novell’s Suse Linux and Mac OS X, but now the company has added Ubuntu to the list. Read more
Why server side validation is important or why spammers love JavaScript validations
It was those days when you could just leave your email out there, have contact, registration and etc forms without any forced validations, only few companies like Yahoo! had CAPTCHA validations…
Yes, those were the days! But now we have JavaScript, CAPTCHA, Audio, Server Side validations to avoid spam and misuse of the forms.
Now, when you are preparing a simple contact form which will email you submissions or feedback form for your company, order forms etc it is come to a point where JavaScript validation is not sufficient. Spammers do love JavaScript validations because they can just bypass them easily. Try it yourself, go find that kind of contact forms and disable JavaScript on your browser and just hit Submit button. See, it says submitted successfully. Read more
Google specific search sites
Do you know that using Google’s specific search sites you can be more effective in your searches?
Here’s the list of them:
Do you know others? Please leave them in the comments!
Update: Add one more - Google Blog Search
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