Social Networking

SingNet Communicator Mail Not Supported in Firefox 4.0 Beta 2

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

SingNet, one of Singapore's telco service provider has redesigned its website, such that it is unable to support Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 2. Under Firefox browser, after I entered my credentials to log in, it does not goes into the Communicator page; instead, the same home page is reloaded. When I tried ...

Google Stops Censorship in China

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

It is now official, Google has stopped censorship in China. Whilst Google had complained about a "sophisticated cyber attack originating from China" in January this year, China accused Google of violating a "written promise" it made when entering the market to abide by laws requiring it to filter its search service. In ...

Google Pull Out from China on April 10th

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Last Friday afternoon, I was browsing through the news on Channel News Asia, one of them caught my eyes - Google to pull out from China operations next month on the 10th. This report, as suggested, was revealed by a business partner of Google and not the Internet search engine giant ...

Google Wave Preview

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Google sent me a pleasant surprise early this week - I am welcomed to preview Google Wave. As you know, this only opens out to invited guest only, so I am pretty delighted to have received this. In addition, I am allowed to invite 8 other people. In return, I asked ...

Storage Capacity Limit – Hostmatrix Server

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The Hostmatrix web hosting server is again facing some issue. As it can be seen (on the right-hand side), two of the partitions are reaching the space limit. Luckily the hosting server is still functioning well, but from the look of it, I hope the server won't fail. I've raised this ticket ...

Twitter Blocked in China

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

I guess it is nothing new when China blocks several International websites, including the recent uproar about Google being "firewalled" by China. Another social networking site, which I strongly believe is under scrutiny, is also blocked in China - that is Twitter. Knowing that Twitter was hit by DoS during the ...

Something Wrong With Twitter?

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Is there something wrong with Twitter? I have been trying to access this website but it seems inaccessible over the last couple of days. Perhaps, it might have got to do with International routing and Firewall blocking this website. Anyway, luckily I have Internet connection, least that I am not too ...

Hostmatrix Backup Server is Maxed

Monday, August 24th, 2009

This is pulled out from one of my server - for administrative purposes.