Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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IM for Blackberry. I've just started using WebMessenger. It gives me true instant messaging to/from my Blackberry 950. I had to upgrade the Blackberry OS to version 2.1, which cost me $46.50 including shipping. (RIM doesn't offer the upgrade via download, at least not for the Enterprise Edition.) I registered my various IM accounts (MSN, AOL, Yahoo, ICQ) with WebMessenger's server. The messages flow in true real-time over the Blackberry network, not as slower email. So far, so good. The only probem is that I've got to remember to turn off my desktop IM software before trying to use the Blackberry, otherwise it doesn't work. I guess you can't have multiple simultaneous logins to MSN, for instance.
Posted Thursday, August 08, 2002 6:30:54 PM 
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Surprise: Passport Isn't What We Were Told. Microsoft and the FTC announced today that Microsoft has agreed to settle FTC charges related to "the privacy and security of personal information collected from consumers through its "Passport" web services."
According to the Commission's complaint, Microsoft falsely represented that:
- It employs reasonable and appropriate measures under the circumstances to maintain and protect the privacy and confidentiality of consumers' personal information collected through its Passport and Passport Wallet services, including credit card numbers and billing information stored in Passport Wallet;
- Purchases made with Passport Wallet are generally safer or more secure than purchases made at the same site without Passport Wallet when, in fact, most consumers received identical security at those sites regardless of whether they used Passport Wallet to complete their transactions;
- Passport did not collect any personally identifiable information other than that described in its privacy policy when, in fact, Passport collected and held, for a limited time, a personally identifiable sign-in history for each user; and
- The Kids Passport program provided parents control over what information participating Web sites could collect from their children.
[Source: Scott Loftensness]
Posted Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:08:02 PM
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