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By Veronica C. Silva, MIS Asia

There was no let up in spamming and phishing activities last month even as the entire world watched with sympathy the tragedy in Haiti. To add to the sorrow behind the devastating earthquake on January 12, cybercriminals took advantage of the tragedy to launch spamming and phishing attacks.

“Both scam and phishing categories doubled in terms of the percentage of all spam in January 2010 compared to December 2009,” reported Symantec in its State of the Spam and Phishing Report of February 2010.

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By John Kennedy

Denis O’Brien, chairman of Digicel and now goodwill ambassador for Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Irish telecoms entrepreneur Denis O’Brien, whose company Digicel is a major mobile operator in the Caribbean and Central America, has been named goodwill ambassador for the city of Port-au-Prince in earthquake-hit Haiti.

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Devastated Porto-Au-Prince as seen from 250 miles above the Earth.

In what is perhaps the final frontier for Internet access, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared photos he had taken of Earth from the International Space Station via his Twitter page. In addition to scenic locations and sprawling urban centers, Noguchi’s photos provide some of the first looks of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, just weeks after it was devastated by the recent earthquake. Like the first photographs of Earth from space in the 1960s were humbling in their depiction of our planet as a fragile blue marble in the vastness of space, Noguchi’s photos not only remind us of our impact on the environment, but also how far we’ve come technologically.

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By Betsy Mason

NASA is sending a radar-equipped jet to Haiti to make 3-D maps of the deformation caused by the magnitude 7 earthquake on Jan. 21 and multiple aftershocks that continue to occur.

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A new web game in which girls as young as seven are creating ‘minxes’ that adopt ‘trophy orphans’ from places such as quake-hit Haiti has been criticised by a parents group.

My Minx – whose users can also give their characters morning-after pills following a night at the pub – ‘sends out all the wrong messages’, said group Parentkind.

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The HTC HD2 is one of the most beautiful, tragic devices in recent history. We love the HD2 for its gargantuan screen, screaming-fast speed, and lovely design. We pity it because it comes attached to Windows Mobile 6.5, an anchor of an OS. Now PMP Today (via HTC) reports that the HD2 will finally be hitting the United States.

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By Phil Goldstein

Nexus One
Donations made via text message continue to pour in for Haitians earthquake relief as aftershocks hamper rescue efforts. The Mobile Giving Foundation said more than $30 million had been collected from mobile subscribers since the earthquake struck. Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless said it had transmitted $4.84 million to the American Red Cross relief effort for Haiti and that its customers had pledged at least $7.82 million to the Red Cross relief effort so far. The carrier made an initial $2.98 million advance to the Red Cross on Jan. 15.

More Than 20 National Charities Working Toward Helping Haiti Below:

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No, it most certainly isn’t a tool used in the Ancient Egyptian days to extract brain matter through the nose, no sir. It’s HTC’s official capacitive stylus for the HTC HD2 smartphone, and we’re sure this thing probably won’t be a hit. The super-scary-looking stylus has made itself available at one British retailer for $27.50, or 17 British pounds after a delay. Expensive, you say? Take into consideration that this isn’t simply a plastic stick. The stylus must conduct heat in order for the display to register touch input.

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By Helen Kennedy

Canadian military planes sit on the tarmac of Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport waiting to distribute emergency relief to Haiti following the earthquake.

Twitter, the messaging service often used by the self-absorbed to update the world on their breakfast choices, may have actually saved lives in Haiti Sunday.

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