Friday, July 4, 2008

Review:Another spammer gets jailed

SPAM...?CAN i eat it? Well there's a different meaning in the IT world.As far as I know, spam is unsolicited email which is sent in bulk to a large number of email addresses and advertises some product. In other words, it is an email message that you did not ask for and do not want from somebody you do not know, who wants to sell you something. However not all unsolicited email is spam. Why spam cannot be stop? It is simply because it works as it is so cheap to send. By using means ranging from spam-friendly ISPs to ordinary people's computers turned spam-machines, spammers can send their junk inexpensively.

Spammers are bad as they used spam to spread computer viruses, trojan horses or other malicious software for identity theft, advance fee fraud or worse. Thus, spammers who get caught will be fine in huge amount and put into the jail for several years. For instance, Todd Moeller Todd Moeller were sentenced to 27 months jail and fined more than US$180,000 by a New York judge. And, spam king, Robert Alan Soloway might be given a penalty of USD$250,000 fine and maximum of 65 years jail as mentioned in Mr Hen’s blog: http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal.

In Soloway’s case, he used computers infected with malicious code to send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called “zombies” because owners typically have no idea their machines have been infected.
He continued his activities even after payment of $7 million to Microsoft and $10 million to the operator of a small Internet service provider in Oklahoma.
Thus, I doubt how much he actually earn from spam business and whether the fine imposed to him adequate to stop him to practice spamming again.
Perhaps, the government need to impose a significant penalty to spammer to refrain from spamming.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

E-Government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strategies.


E-Government or Electronic Government is defined as the use of information technology in public sector as a medium of delivering information and services. It is to provide citizens and organizations with more convenient access to government information and public services to citizens. It is an efficient and effective way of conducting government business transaction with citizens and business and within governments themselves. Through the adoption of e-government, government objectives can be achieved by integrating the processing and communication technology. Furthermore, government processes can also be improved through the adoption of e-government delivery of services to Malaysia people. It seeks to improve the convenience, accessibility and quality of interactions with citizens and businesses as well as, improving the speed and quality of policy development, coordination and enforcement by improving the flow of information and processes within government in connecting citizens and building interactions with and within the society.

The E-Government was launched in Malaysia to lead the country into the Information Age. It will improve the government internal operations and the Malaysia so far has implemented systems such as Electronic Services System (E-services), Human Resource Management Information System (HRIMS), E-Syariah and myGovernment Portal, which serve the purpose of providing government information and services to the citizens. For example, the myGovernment (My-Gov) portal acts as a one-stop source of Malaysian government information and services to the citizens. Recently, it has won Global ICT Awards at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2008, held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC). Some of successful applications of e-government are:


  • Electronic Labor Exchange (ELX) (http://www.elx.gov.my/) which is a one stop-centre for labor market information, as supervised by the Ministry of Human Resource (MOHR) has matched 75,000 potential employees with employers since 2005. It enables employers and potential employees to communicate. The purpose is to create an effective job matching process and to ensure man power's utilization is optimized. Over the years, many Malaysians have started to use ELX to search for jobs.

  • Online renewal of driving licenses

  • E-Filing or Electronic filing of income tax forms.

  • Voter’s information

  • Details for government tenders

The adoption of e-government has brought a lot more convenient to Malaysia citizens. This is because most of the transactions can be done at a single click, at any time infact people no longer need to queue up to perform certain government transaction such as filing the income tax form. Eventhough, e-government is still unpopular among the citizens but sooner people will realize its importance.


Learn more about e-government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Government

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http://www.american.edu/initeb/ym6974a/egovernment.html

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Review :Q Jelly Bakery Shop

Jelly Cakes Goes Online!!!

Q JELLY BAKERY SHOP, previously known as Homemade Jelly Cake. The 1st booth located in Sunway Pyramid in year 2000 and now they goes online. Promoting a healthy lifestyle with jelly cakes that are low in cholesterol, contain nearly 87% water and are rich in vitamins as well as other important nutrients and most of all the food colour dyes are approved by The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States.


Having to surf around their site is a fun loving moment whereby you can see more than 1,000 designs of colourful jellies cake that are available for you to choose from.If you are interested,just click on and fill in your particulars.TADA~ delivery is on the way!

I know..there are too many to choose but little money to pay,and you wish to get a perfect design that suit your taste, no hassle ,the site provides you a shopping cart, ,that allows you to choose first and decide later.

Besides that ,if you are curious on whatever they are selling in the site,dont worry, FAQ serves you right. All information on food safety,whether or not it is Halal,how to keep the jelly cakes in an upmost quality before you serve is all there to answer you.

Well i can say it is a user friendly site where the outlay of the website speaks it all.Easy and Simple.

Being a regulars to the site, I've noticed some changes going on...yes..they added new features allowing customers to subscribe to their Newsletter.Well isn't it cool that you can receive latest cake's design in your mailbox.

If there is a birthday..anniversary..special occasion, try get a jelly cake online this year. Happy surfing (and eating too).


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