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After a 2 weeks vacation with access to company email either from my laptop or via my iPhone in a browser (webmail), I have decided to make the step of upgrading my 1.1.3 iPhone to 2.0 and test the Exchange connector, cause I’m done with all the refresh in the browser. After almost half an [...]

I have been using my iPhone for quite a while now and got used to it. I didn’t had any big issues with it so far. I even got used to do some particular things on the way back home from work, while sitting and waiting in traffic. What can you do with your iPhone [...]

twitter.com, digg.com, linkedin.com, xing.com, hi5.com, myspace.com, facebook.com … all these websites seem to be quite trendy. You hear about them each day, people are using these websites as a way to communicate, to get in contact, to share thoughts. All of these, plus blogging is just a part of what is generically called web 2.0. [...]

Two weeks ago I’ve bought an iPhone. Although I do not use AT&T as my mobile carrier (I do not live in US), I knew that the phone software can be hacked. Of course, you can buy already hacked phones via eBay but I took my chances and purchased a new one directly from an [...]

Last weekend I attended the 7th annual european conference for the independent software vendors. The conference was held in Köln (Cologne) Germany, in the Marriot Hotel. Each year there is another city where the conference takes place, like Strasbourg (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Cambridge (UK). Next year (2008) it will be done in Berlin [...]

Last weekend I’ve been to Moscow for the Autumn session of Isdef conference. It was my 4th time in Moscow for ISDEF, representing Avangate. We have sponsored this event, as we did it for the last two years. A three-day event with meetings, parties and networking.
The organizers continued to setup the conference outside Moscow, like [...]

I have received yesterday an email from yahoo with the message that yahoo photos will no longer be available starting September 20. They give me the chance to move my pictures to Flickr (or even Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket) at a click of a button. I have a few albums on yahoo, so the moving [...]

So I have decided to uninstall Ubuntu. I had it on a big partition of 50GB and another one with 2 GB for swap. I had only a few problems with this system, but the main reason to get rid of it was because switching between two systems was quite annoying. I mean you either [...]

When using the Avangate AfterSale Message feature for the order finished page, you can add any type of tracking code. Including Google adwords for conversion tracking. Since we have received a few question on how to get this code, here are the required steps:
1. Access your Adwords account
2. On “Conversion tracking” section click on “Get [...]

“eCommerce times” writes an article about Google’s entry into the online payment market, while making a comparison with Paypal and adding some facts about Google Checkout.
The interesting thing is that our romanian branch is quoted in this article:
E-payment services are not new. ePayment Solutions, GECAD ePayment, Intellipay and Neteller carved out viable e-payment businesses. However, [...]