Spam, or junk mail, now accounts for over 85% of all email traffic in Ireland. The figures are based on the monitoring of more than 13 million email messages, sent to over 1000 domains, during the month of July.

I can totally believe that stat, because I would say that roughly 85% of the emails I receive are spam.

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“Live OneCare caught 99.91% of the known active viruses it was tested against. This left it vulnerable to 37 separate malicious programs.”

“Version 1.5 of Windows Live OneCare was co-launched with Vista and uses the same scanning “engine” as the security tools bundled with the operating system.”

I had always planned on waiting a good while (6 months minimum) before upgrading to Vista. This news has made me think about lenghtening that time before even thinking about upgrading!

Source: Windows ‘fails’ active virus test!

After some careful consideration, I decided it was time to get a new phone.

So, after viewing all available phones from all available networks, I eventually decided on the Motorola L6 from O2. It’s a nifty little phone with some good features!

I’ve still to figure out a lot of the features/settings, but I’m getting there

AOL wants to hear your views: AOL /discuss

Two observations in the past couple of days has got me thinking as to how far we can - or will - go in the direction of wireless technology.

When visiting my brother’s new house a few days ago, one of the first things I noticed upon walking into the sitting room (lounge) was the flat screen tv above the fireplace. You can’t miss it. So, of course, I asked him about it and was surprised to see that it was a wireless tv. A little trasmitter sits on top of the dvd player and a receiver in the back of the tv interprets the data and converts it in pictures. No more making holes in the wall to hide wires!

The second observation was when watching a Coldplay video on MTV. The guitarist was using a wireless guitar and was free to roam anywhere on stage without the need to watch where he walked

Maybe these examples are more mainstream in other countries, but they’re not so much here. What’s next for wireless I wonder.