Text Messaging Year 2016 Bug

January 4, 2010 by Ed Brindley · Leave a Comment
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Forget about the Mayan Calendar 2012 doomsday! Some mobile users are seeing the year 2016 on messages delivered in 2010. The Mayans had December 21, 2012 as 13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count. Is the 2016 bug a result of bad string parsing? Poor binary to BCD conversion? The plot thickens…

[via WMExperts]

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iPhone Dominates Mobile Web

March 29, 2009 by Ed Brindley · 1 Comment
Filed under: Ed, EdSays 

In only two years, the iPhone has dramatically transformed the mobile web. There’s a tendency toward touchscreen devices for mobile web browsing; the iPhone has already claimed 50% of mobile web traffic. Google’s Android OS was the only other platform gaining with 5%.

Sadly, Palm continues its downward spiral. Scott needs something more modern and respectable – a BlackBerry, perhaps. Someone please pick him up off the floor!

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Phishing on mobile = SMiShing

February 25, 2009 by Ed Brindley · Leave a Comment
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Trying to get people to give up their identities comes to mobile [via CNET News]

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  • Scott Says...

    In another sign that the housing market has hit bottom and rebounded the Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in July, increased 3.2% to 97.6 from a reading of 94.6 in June, and is 12.0% higher than July 2008 when it was 87.1. The index is at the highest level since June 2007 when it was 100.7. 6 months of increasing contract activity shows us that there is a very good chance the bottom of the market occurred prior to this rebound. Nobody will know for sure until more time goes by, but the astute consumer should take note.

    • Ed Says...

      Trying to get people to give up their identities comes to mobile [via CNET News]