TMI's New Office

Update your address book, because this week TMI has moved into new office space near the Court House Metro station. Our new street address is:

Technology Management International

1840 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 202
Arlington VA, 22202
(Google Maps)

Our phone numbers, faxes, and email addresses remain the same.

Firefox Sets World Record

Today Firefox officially received a Guinness World Record for being downloaded 8,002,530 times on June 17th. More proof testing websites on Microsofts Internet Explorer and ignoring other browsers just isn't good enough in today's increasingly competitive market. If you've got a website, download Firefox 3.0 and make sure your website is compatible. And while you are at it, try out some of Firefox's plug-ins like Ad-block plus. You may find yourself switching from IE for good!

Blackberry Relay Service Outage - July 5th

Critical-S1 Severity Maintenance (New) for BlackBerry Relay service for subscribers of *The Americas Network (MULT)

This message is to inform you of scheduled network maintenance.
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Infrastructure - software update

Impact: BlackBerry subscribers may be unable to send or receive messages during the maintenance. Subscribers may also be unable to register their device, roam in another location, or use other services such as Internet browsing.
BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers may be unable to use the BlackBerry Internet Service web site or perform activities such as creating new accounts, accessing their Internet mailbox, integrating third-party email accounts, or viewing email attachments during the maintenance.

Devices may not receive new service books during the maintenance.BlackBerry Connect and BlackBerry-enabled devices that require a new PIN may be unable to receive the PIN.

BlackBerry Enterprise Servers may be unable to connect to the BlackBerry Infrastructure during the maintenance.
Wireless service providers and device resellers may be unable to use BlackBerry administration web sites or perform activities such as creating subscriber accounts or provisioning services for subscribers during the maintenance.
Ticket Number: BBCHG34688

Change Window Start Date and Time: 5 July 2008 02:00:00 (EDT)
Change Window End Date and Time: 5 July 2008 06:00:00 (EDT)
Estimated Duration of Service Impact: 0 hour(s) and 20 minute(s)
% of Subscribers Affected: 100.00 (estimated)

Purpose: RIM Software Upgrade

EST = GMT - 5 hours
EDT = GMT - 4 hours
AEST = GMT + 10 hours

Dell Studio Laptops...

Dell appears to have released some new engineering prototypes of their new Studio 15 and 17 laptops. While it appears that they're lacking in some fit and finish aspects, I'm pretty sure were pretty close to seeing the what the end product might look like. According to the guys over at Engadget, the materials used in the build don't quite shake off that cheap plastic feel of Dell's Inspirion series. They do however come with color and graphic lid customization.

More info over @ Engadget.

Preview of Firefox 3

The newest version of the popular open-source web browser Firefox is scheduled for arrival sometime this month. If you are wondering why the new version of Firefox is worth switching too, check out this short (< 4 minute) preview video.

UPDATE: Firefox 3 scheduled for release June 17th. Meanwhile, the Opera web browser has released Opera 9.5

2BAccessible.com Goes Live

TMI Web Solutions is proud to announce the launch of 2BAccessible a website that will help bridge the gap between eCommerce and the vast untapped market of consumers with disabilities.

More than ten million Americans are visually impaired and this number is expected to grow to 30 million in ten years. While the internet is an ideal medium for these people to purchase goods and services, many websites poorly implement the established standards that would make them accessible to screen readers.

Following proper accessibility guidelines does more than just help people with disabilities navigate websites. The same standards that help screen readers parse websites also helps search engines such as Google and Yahoo! To find out how being accessible (also known as "508 Compliant") can help your website, contact the TMI Web Division at 703.505.4059

Sophos - Top 10 Malware for February 2008

Sophos has released their malware statistics for the month of February.

For more information please see - http://www.sophos.com/security/top-10/index.html