With Windows 8 not even six months old, Microsoft is already rushing out a major upgrade, codenamed Windows Blue, which will offer better multitasking, new built-in apps, more personalisation and an improved "Start" screen. The ...
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Following similar disclosures from companies such as Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs ...
Google Drive, the cloud storage and applications suite used by millions at home and at work, has suffered three service interruptions this week, making it impossible at times for affected users to access their files and applications. As ...
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Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs to ...
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It's been eons in coming, but pre-ordered BlackBerry Z10's will start being delivered in Australian from Monday. More than four years has elapsed since BlackBerry brought out its first touchscreen model, the Storm, in late 2008. It also ...
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Microsoft today said it restored full service to Hotmail and Outlook.com around 6 a.m. PT, about 15 hours after the online mail sites went partially dark. The problems, which surfaced Tuesday afternoon, affected not only Hotmail and ...
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Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Microsoft experienced disruptions for several hours to its online suite of mail, calendar and storage services, leaving many users unable to access their accounts. The problems occurred Tuesday evening in the U.S. Microsoft posted a ...
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Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of Hotmail, however. Microsoft acknowledged ...
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Microsoft on Monday kicked off a two-month promotion that gives college students Office 365 for up to six months free of charge. The deal is the first trial offered for Office 365 University, a four-year subscription plan that lets ...
nCrypted Cloud, a cloud data privacy company that brings world-class privacy to data stored on cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, GoogleDrive and SkyDrive, has announced the launch of its free nCrypted Cloud service. Nick Stamos, ...
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Part of what Microsoft hopes customers will understand about Windows Phone 8 smartphones is that they are linked to an ecosystem that includes Excel, PowerPoint and Word. That ecosystem concept should intrigue IT managers, even though ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's push to deepen and extend the ...
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