Avernis Thoughts

What is Push Email?

Push email differs from the usual pull/poll email systems by constantly updating the mailbox with arriving email without having to check at specific intervals

After receiving my iPhone a couple of weeks ago one of the first things I did was put my email account into the settings so I could start receiving my work emails. Coming from a Blackberry this was quite a simple process and took me all of about 2 minutes to setup.

After sending myself numerous messages I was disappointed to find that my emails were not automatically appearing on my iPhone, I would have to keep checking for mail manually or setting my device to fetch for mail at specific intervals. After trawling through Google for a while and having multiple pages open I managed to get the solution working.

If you run a small to medium sized business, you may think you don't need a website. Maybe you believe just traditional print advertising, your location, or just Yellow Pages listing and word of mouth has worked to give you enough business in the past so there's no need to change? Or perhaps you don't think your customers use the web to seek products or services like yours?

As a contractor, builder, carpenter, plumber, electrician or other building tradesperson, you want your website to help increase awareness of your business and expose it to a broader market. It should help build your reputation, promote your services to new and existing customers so you are assured of a steady flow of work, plus improve customer communication.

An effective website can also help strengthen relationships by providing something of value to your customers, to help engender loyalty. So, how do you achieve this?

In a recent report released by Impervia reveled some interesting statistics when it comes to common passwords being used on popular social site www.rockyou.com - some very scary statistics indeed.

Of the 32 million accounts contained within the website, the following were the top 10 most common passwords: