Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service,which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service. The revamped service,to be known as Outlook.com,will automatically sort ...
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The Second Hong Kong International Software Contest rules have been released:the gold winner will receive a$100,000 bonus. The first Hong Kong International Software Contest was successfully held in Zhuhai,China on March 11,2011,and it ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's new email service, Outlook.com, is more than an update to its free email offering. It's also a one-two punch against major rival Google. On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off its new webmail service, which ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail as Outlook.com is a move by the company to hold its first-place position in free email while pushing the domain as more of a consumer destination,an analyst said today. Earlier ...
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Computerworld - If you want to know more about a new rock band or a new restaurant, you'll probably do a search. But then you'll realize a few of your friends might know something about that band or that restaurant and already have an ...
A widespread spam attack linking to malware has broken out on Twitter, according to the security firm Sophos. The malicious tweets often read "It's you on photo?" or "It's about you?" The tweets and URLs often include a user's Twitter ...
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Google disclosed Friday in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. The Street View vehicles ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics won't be able to keep certain pieces of information from the public during their high-profile jury trial that begins on Monday, a judge in California said Friday. But what will be public and what won't still ...
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NatWest has admitted the outage it suffered on Thursday 26 July was down caused by a hardware failure in one of its datacentres. The error hit customers around 3pm, leaving them with no access to online banking and unable to use debit ...
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Twitter users are being targeted by tweets containing malicious links that claim recipients are pictured in an online photo. These malicious links are being spammed across the micro-blogging site, warned security firm Sophos. The ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Making the move from Outlook(or another mail client)to Gmail can be jarring.It means giving up the folder system you've used for years,getting accustomed to an entirely new interface,and so on. Fortunately,Gmail isn't hard to learn,and ...
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Twitter has apologised for the micro-blogging service being unavailable for around two hours on the day before the official opening of the London 2012 Olympics. Initially,the service said on its network status page:"Users may be ...