Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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ARE you confident about working on a notebook that stores your documents straight to the cloud? Are you happy to forgo Microsoft and Apple applications you have used for years, such as Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Excel, and Apple's iWorks ...
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Browse the web, check email, watch videos and download apps on the nation's fastest 4G LTE network with the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" – coming to AT&T retail stores at an affordable price. Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE 32GB tablet arrives ...
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Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. (See our slideshow of how some sites are marking April ...
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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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Move over Glass. Google is also reportedly working on an Android-based 'smartwatch' as well as the computerized glasses. While the Glass product, Google's computerized eyeglasses, is still in development, reports are continuing to surface ...
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While existing technology continues to advance in incremental - boring - steps, the next wave is on its way, promising to turn us all into friendlier, more-adventurous versions of the Terminator. I welcome our new google overlords. ...
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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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Google showed off apps and audio and gesture control features for Google Glass at the South by South West (SXSW) conference in Austin this week. Timothy Jordan, a senior developer advocate at Google, was at the conference in Austin on ...
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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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A top U.S. official called on China to investigate and stop cyberattacks, which he said pose a growing threat to the countries' economic relationship. Tom Donilon, U.S. President Barack Obama's national security advisor, said the U.S. ...
Microsoft's anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign is a battle for hearts and minds as much as for search and email market share, an analyst said today, but its effectiveness can be measured. "Scroogled is an attempt to change hearts and ...
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Microsoft today denied reports that it has halted its anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign, and trumpeted the number of signatures its online petition has accumulated. Initial reports Monday, based on a Microsoft executive's interview with ...
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Web-based e-mail—webmail—is e-mail, such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo, that's implemented as a Web app and accessed through a browser. These services are usually free, and it's a rare computer user who doesn't have at least one ...