Month: September 2007

So, how does Lotus Symphony looks like?

IBM released Lotus Symphony, an office suite built with the Eclipse Rich Client Platform for its User Interface and Open Office for the back end office code.

So, how does Lotus Symphony looks like? I don’t know, since the demo requires me to disable my pop-up blocker and try again. Hmmm, I’m not disabling or whitelisting any site to see a demo that I have little interest so I contacted IBM and sent them a message:

Could you make the Lotus Symphony Tour to not open a pop-up window?

I’m not disabling my pop-up blocker to see this product demo (which I still don’t know what’s different from OpenOffice).

If IBM decides to reconsider the approach for the Lotus Symphony demo, let me know through the email address provided.

Thanks,
Emerson Seiti Takahashi

Let’s wait and hope that IBM let me control the way that I view websites.

Gridzones – Web Hosting Review

This site is currently hosted at Gridzones. I purchased a VPS-1 plan, which is not available anymore.

There aren’t many reviews out there reviewing their service, so what’s their reputation? Gridzones is listed at BigAdmin portal and is based in Seattle. The uptime is close to 5 9s and they promised a minimum of 64MB of RAM memory for me and that’s why I was interested. I heard that webhosting companies are overselling their shared accounts, putting too many customers on a server.

Apparently it is a small company, since I got a response from the CEO for a sales question that I made. The question was  How much I will be charged if I use all my bandwidth in Solaris 10 VPS-1 (or all plans – thinking about future expansion)?  Bandwidth is $0.50/GB over the quota for your VPS.

The support tickets have a SLA of 24 hours and my four tickets were responded on time. My opinion: so far so good.

Twitter and SMS international agreements for interoperability

I questioned Claro Brazil, my mobile phone carrier, why I can’t send messages to Twitter – +44 7624801423.

They answered that Claro has international agreements for interoperability with Argentina, Canada, Singapore, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Spain, Estonia, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Zeland, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela and United States.

So, no Twitter for me 😦

I also don’t get SMS from Facebook, Google Agenda. I wonder why…

GPhone – it still not impressive

With the news that Google is releasing a phone getting closer to a launch, I still believe that the GPhone still not impressive enough to change the mobile landscape.

But it does create a working mobile phone with the specifications that Google think is important in mobile phones.