Archive for June, 2007
Getting email on smart phones or just cell phones
The NY Times had an article a few days back on how to get email on phones other than Blackberries and Treos.
Most of you know about the Gmail application and Yahoo2Go. And also about the mobile mail websites for Yahoo and Gmail. But the article mentioned one service I hadn’t yet tried, Teleflip
Teleflip is free. It polls your email account every 15 minutes, then sends converts your email to text messages and forwards the text messages to you. Now if Aunt Martha sends you a 20 times forwarded joke this might get painfully expensive. But telefip lets you decide who to forward email from. It will also let you cap how many text messages to send you per email.
You can send replies from your phone which teleflip will send as a regular email.
In the not distant future teleflip will be paid for by text ads placed at the bottom of the email. But that seems a fair price to pay for this service.
More Information:
How to Make Your Cellphone Act like a BlackBerry
Bluesnarfing aka Bluejacking
This has been a European and Asian problem, not so much a U.S. problem, but I expect that will change in time.
Nearby thugs try to push malicious data ( worms, viruses etc ) to your phone via bluetooth and then collect data from your phone.
Keep your visibility hidden on your bluetooth and do not accept incoming connections unless you know exactly where those connections are coming from.
