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Happy New Year to all our dear clients. It has been a looooong holiday vacation in the Philippines and it’s coming to an end. For those who feel somewhat sluggish or simply enjoyed their vacation to the fullest, here’s a toast to another chapter in our life, a new year of opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Oh and btw, reloading credits on our website will be temporarily unavailable on January 8 due to scheduled maintenance from PayPal.

On Thursday, January 8th, we will be conducting maintenance to the PayPal website beginning at 11 PM PDT and lasting approximately one hour.   

During this time you will be unable to send or receive payments as the PayPal website and its features will be unavailable.

Rest assured we will be monitoring this maintenance very closely to ensure all systems return to normal functionality immediately afterward.

Thank you.

Finally, a Firefox add-on that provides you a tag cloud when searching using Google or Yahoo! on top of the usual SERP (search engine result page). On top literally! And to think it came from a Ukraine-based software engineering institute. Who says Web 2.0 innovations are the sole province of the Americans?

Wired has a lowdown on the search cloudlet and you can install it from INTSPEI’s site.

It’s deja vu all over again. After the release of Google Chrome now comes another new kid on the block (although it has been a hit already in Japan). Its tagline "The World’s Fastest Browser Ever" screams at every page footer on its website. Operating in a fashion akin to a dual-SIM phone, Lunascape aims to be the only browser you need in case the website you are visiting is designed for a specific browser only. So instead of switching back and forth with IE, Firefox, Safari or Chrome, you can have all those browsers’ rendering engine in one super-browser, and super-fast to boot.

Well, that’s the promise of Lunascape. However, for security-sensitive sites like PayPal, you can’t leave it to chances.

Eweek.com reports:

Lunascape5 lacks some of the security features found in newer browsers, such as deep SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate information and color coding and anti-phishing features. Other aspects of the browser certainly have an "alpha" feel to them, and the browser’s Japanese roots show in some of the English used in dialogs and settings menus.

For regular web surfing, Lunascape may be fine. I’ll just stick with the latest version of Firefox though.

In celebration of the Veterans’ Day this year on November 11, we are offering a special for our beloved prospects. Enjoy account activation without paying the $15 one-time activation fee. Offer good for phone activations only and will last till November 12, 2am Pacific Time.

This offer does not apply for online activations. Call us now!

As expected, security flaws cropping up with Google Chrome leads us to recommend the latest version of Firefox or Internet Explorer instead when conducting online transactions. As a result, Chrome is not yet suited to be used when your credit or debit card number is at stake, especially when making payments with PayPal.

Below is the details of the address spoofing flaw of Chrome, courtesy of The Register:

Google’s Chrome browser has been marred by yet another vulnerability, this one allowing attackers to impersonate websites of groups like the Better Business Bureau, PayPal or, well, Google.

Researcher Liu Die Yu of the TopsecTianRongXin research lab in Beijing says the spoofing vulnerability is the result of faulty code inserted by programmers from the Mountain View, California search behemoth.

"I don’t see Apple Safari vulnerable in the same way," he writes in an email to The Register. "They share the same engine(webkit)."

As his proof of concept demonstrates, it is in fact possible to send Chrome users to a page under his control while causing the browser’s address bar to display the domain name bbb.org.

A Google representative says Chrome’s spoofing vulnerability is a "known issue" that will be fixed in an update that will be pushed to end users soon. Those too impatient to wait can download version 0.3.154.3 of Chrome on Google’s Dev Channel