We are currently introducing S/MIME based encryption and signing for our mails. This works flawlessly an almost any desktop application. A question that came up was if there is support for our growing number of smartphones.
The question seems to be: Not for those platforms that we use. There is no support for IPhone, Android nor Symbian. There is no infortmation about Windows Mobile based devices… but who uses that anyway?
Blackberrys are the only mobile devices that have builtin S/MIME support. ( I had some hands-on time in the subway this morning)
I wonder why there is no support for secure e-mail communication on mobile devices?
Is there really no demand? What about all those business people running arround with their Nokias, Iphones or Androids?
PS. Could some IPhone user check if the phone is capable to display signed (NOT ENCRYPTED) mails??
First look. Nice device, feels good in your hands AppStore: The Appstore is not available in your country Display: Glares but OK to read Useability: Very smooth to use Gets a bit heavy to hold in your hands after a while. Nice toy lets see what happens…
Calendar: WTH? You cannot change to next day by swiping a page? Apple??
Google support reacted quite quickly. It seems to be a feature! Whenever a mail is sent to an address which is then redirected to the GMail Account it is suppressed to avoid mailfloods…
OK, it is true. I have some strange e-mail setup. I have different accounts at different providers, I have e-mail addresses at serveral domains where I run my own mailservers.
So what do I do for convenience reasons is: I forward most of my e-mail accounts to a Gmail account. And the for backup reasons I have the gmail account to forward a copy of each incoming mail to some other mailaccount on one of my servers.
This setup worked quite well. But for some time now someone changed something. There seems to be some sort of Bermuda Triangle within my personal Cloud!
Whenever I send an e-mail from my gmail account to an address on one of my domains address@maildomain , the following happens.
Gmail accepts the e-mail
E-Mail is delivered to my domains mailserver server.maildomain
Mailserver forwards the mail to gmail
E-mail is lost. It does not appear in my gmail inbox nor in my backup mailaccount.
If I send an e-mail from some other account to my address@maildomain
server.maildomain accepts e-mail and forwards it to gmail
gmail displays the mail in my inbox
gmail forwards it to otheraccount@maildomain
server.maildomain accepts the message and stores it in my backupaccount…
Please Google: Fix your servers or tell my why what I am doing is wrong!
Ich habe mal einen ersten Blick auf Googles Chrome OS geworfen. Ich bin mir nicht sicher was ich davon halten soll. Keine Daten mehr auf dem eigenen Gerät. Alles im Internet gespeichert. Eigentlich super. Man hat von überall her Zugriff auf seine Daten. Aber wenn ich mir meine Nutzungsgewohnheiten anschaue dann wird genau das zum Problem. Ich nutze meinen Rechner wenn ich unterwegs bin. Genau da habe ich oft keine Internetverbindung oder nur langsames GPRS. Was ist dann? Wie komme ich in vertretbarer Geschwindigkeit an meine Daten? Natürlich gibt es Caching und ähnliches, aber es ist nicht dasselbe. Alle Anwendungen müssen Webanwendungen sein, das heisst ohne Internet keine Anwendung. Ausser sie ist irgendwie im Cache.
Aus meiner momentanen Sicht eignet sich ChromeOS für Kioskcomputer. Rechner die am Bahnhof, im Internetcafe oder sonstwo stehen. Keine persönlichen Daten auf diesem Rechner aber alle persönlichen Daten vorhanden. Aber sonst????
Online collaboration and desktopsharing has become an everyday feature in businesslife. But until today I had not seen a sharing service which:
Works out of the box on a linux maschine
Works on mobile devices!
Today I have been reading about Nokia EasyMeet. An online collaboration tool that can be used even on your mobile phone. We had a little test! Just register and start your first meeting. You can give presenter rights to other users and share different types of files like, Powerpoint or JPG. Files are uploaded to the service and then shared. You can even import files from OVI.
All features seem to work also flawlessly from mobile phones.
Seit heute morgen erscheint bei mir im Google Calendar das Offline Symbol….
werde es testen und schauen ob man auch nur lesend drauf zugreifen kann. Ich hoffe ja, dass man auch Einträge machen kann, die danach mit dem Onlinekalender synchronisiert werden!
The following text is just a stub! I will add more on this topic soon.
When you are used to use online applications like your webmailer or whatever you will sooner or later end up in sitting somewhere without connectivity and the urgent need to access some bit of information.
Some online applications can easily be synced with a desktop application, which sync after the connectivity is restored. A typical example is e-mail. But what about all the other applications?
In the meanwhile there is for example Google Gears which allows to use the applications in you browser no matter if with our without connectivity to the cloud. (Thats not completely true but I will elaborate further on this topic in a while)
For some days Gears is also available for Google Mail. For us European (non UK) users it seems that it might take a while until it is available in our localized Versions. So if you want to give it a try, just change your language settings to english. After that there will appear a site “labs” in your settings. There the offline Version can be activated. Before you do that, make sure you have enough space on your harddrive as it will sync your entire mailfolder to your disk.
What do you think about using online applications that way?
Something seems to have happened over Christmas. Up to now there were only few people sitting in the train surfing the net. Today… the same train as always… only in my view area:
Since there seems to be growing interest in my Articles about living a mobile life I’ll do this one in English.
Using the T-Mobile G1 showed that synchronization of calendar and contacts is an important thing when living in the cloud. The G1 does that smoothly in the background without any further user interaction required. (As long as the synchronization service is available which it wasn’t when I wanted to show it to some colleagues.)
I am aware that almost every mobile device is shipped with some sync software, but these mostly require Windows or can only be used with Outlook … Do we really restrict ourselves to that?? Especially if we are using several mobile devices and several Computers running different OSes!
