Yawn… this happened back in April, when Google, in a blog post, admitted that they accidentally collected personal details, including full email addresses and even health records from unsecured wi-fi connections of home users.

NOW, Canadian authorities are saying that the company has breached Canadian privacy laws and want all such information deleted from their system by 1st February, 2011. At that point, the commissioner’s office will consider this issue resolved.

While it’s dumb to leave a wi-fi connection unsecured, though there are people who have left the “door” open unknowingly, it’s still wrong of Google to collect such information and to have kept them until now even though the company has already known about it in April. How many months does the company require to delete these information from their system?

My friend, Amy, sent me a text message earlier today, asking if I have any good web host to recommend as she knows that my package is cheaper than hers. I told her about my web host, but she was still not that satisfied with the subscription rate. I think she is planning to cut down on her blogging expenses.

I told her that I would look out for her and as luck would have it, came across this ipage coupon which would save her even more. iPage is already an inexpensive web hosting company. If she uses this iPage coupon code, I think that the difference in hosting fees compared to her current subscription would be significant. At least, it’s even cheaper than my current web hosting plan!

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I read that Google has decided to give us chronological view to our Gmail messages, after 6 years of “noise” from Gmail users. Although there are many Gmail account holders, and these are the people who have requested for chronological view instead of the default threaded conversation view, I can say that a lot of us do not like threaded conversation but we continue to use Gmail because of the huge email storage.

I went to check out my Gmail account just now but couldn’t find any way to switch inbox view from threaded conversation to chronological view. I have to say that after such a long time using Gmail, I have not gotten used to it, don’t think I ever will.

I think that Gmail is rolling this feature stage by stage so if you have the ability to change your Gmail inbox view, let me know how you did it and how you like it.

My friend, Samm, told me that she has bought new domain names. AGAIN. I thought that she said that she has plans to move some of her blogs to free hosts but I guess the recent domain name sale was too difficult to resist.

Now, she has the problem of hosting her news sites since she already has an idea what to do with them. The problem is that she isn’t prepared to pay too much for hosting since these are new sites and would require time to build before she can generate some revenue from them.

I mentioned to her find my hosting review site where she could easily compare the current top ten web hosting companies in terms of pricing, features and services. In addition, she could also read user reviews of these services and see how well each company’s hosting package rates among other packages from other companies.

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I had a surprise going to Google.com just now. This Google Doodle is to celebrate John Lennon’s 70th birthday. It’s actually not a doodle in the true sense of the word on the home page but a video embedded in place of the doodle. Click “play” and you can see doodles with John Lennon’s Imagine playing in the background.

Google publishes different doodle logos on its homepage to make various occasions throughout the year but this one has got to be one of the best so far. of course, there are still very memorable ones like the Pacman game doodle and also the recent one to mark Flintstone’s 50th anniversary but this one is really a great idea.

A friend has asked me if I would like to join him in starting an online business selling luxury watches. I had to turn him down because I couldn’t find time for yet another online business because it simply takes up a lot of time, especially when it is just starting. Running an online store is simply NOT a matter of just clicking here and there.

However, I did give him a few tips on how to set up an eCommerce store and I told him that although there are quite a few companies that offer free eCommerce store hosting, there are many advantages to hosting his own store. For one, there is plenty of flexibility on how he wants his store to be and its direction.

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My sister told me that her colleague has bought a new Nintendo Wii even though she “hasn’t got the money”. I think she meant that it was purchased with a credit card. In any case, I told her that if she doesn’t have the money and yet still purchase a game console, which in my book is a luxury, it means that she has poor financial management.

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