Tech News Vermont

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A county in Kentucky gets robbed by computer criminals who used software to trick county computers into transferring funds into money mole bank accounts.  Those moles were people who thought they were working for a legitimate business, but later found out that they’d been scammed.

Make sure you check out any company that offers to hire you over the Internet via email, solely based on your on-line resume.  Always know who you are dealing with if you are asked to send non-reversible financial instruments (i.e.money orders) to someone.

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As Reported on vermontbiz.com, Senator Leahy has announced the creation of the Vermont Technology Seed Capital Fund.  The $1 million fund is designed to help high tech businesses in Vermont.

This is great news and builds on Gov Douglas’ announcement of stimulus money headed to build out broadband connectivity within the state.  The combination of enhancing the network infrastructure and seed money for tech sector businesses will really help expand tech in the Green Mountain state.

The first few days with the iPhone 3.0 software has been fairly good.  I lost my contacts and calendars when I tried to turn on Push, but I restored them from backup.  I still don’t fully understand the relationship between the Mac applications, .mac (or as it’s know now-a-days MobileMe *ick*) and the iPhone.

I mentioned the Wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/  It’s a great place to go for a trip down memory lane on the Internet.

Gibson Research is in the blog roll and I’d encourage anyone with a Windows XP computer to look in your Firefox extensions for the .NET extension.  There is a way to remove it (even though the uninstall button is greyed out.)  Here’s a a great How to Remove article: How To Remove Microsoft .NET Spyware Extension

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