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Outlook Social Connector : Connecting LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace
In November 2009, both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector was announced. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to [...]
More detailed App Store Review Clock for Apple Developers
iPhone and now iPad Developers now have a more detailed way to see how app approvals are progressing. Apple added a clock a few weeks ago that displayed the percentage of apps approved within the last 14 days.
Now there is a new clock that shows the percentage of new apps approved within the last seven [...]
Free Apple iPad
Joe Zeff, the former presentation editor of New York Times and graphics director of Time, is suggesting publishers bundle magazine and newspaper subscriptions, with a free Apple iPad.
Imagine it: Get all of Condé Nast and every New York newspaper in your pocket for five years. For the low, low price of $10,000, we’ll also throw [...]
A War Against Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
The war against IE6 continues. Effective March 1, 2010, Google will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites.
Google has just announced the news that it’s joining the long list of companies that will no longer support IE6. Once Google begins phasing out support for the archaic browser, Google [...]
Earnings take-away: Microsoft is still powered by Windows
Microsoft’s brass is always looking for the next billion dollar business and has stuck a toe into everything from healthcare to energy monitoring. But as the company’s second quarter earnings for fiscal 2010, which Microsoft released on January 28, show, Windows is still the big wheel that keeps on turning in Redmond.
Consumer sales of Windows [...]
iPad from Apple ,Microsoft Tablet PCs. What about Google?
First a disclaimer: Apple’s new iPad didn’t meet expectations, either mine, or the folks who I’ve been talking with on Twitter.
If my friends who work with or for Apple and in the press hadn’t built it up as mind blowing it wouldn’t have been disappointing, but this was a case where expectations got too big [...]
Google Offers Satellite Images of Haiti, Post-Earthquake
In the immediate aftermath of a 7.0 earthquake that caused an unbelievable amount of destruction to Haiti’s capital, Google has been asked by relief organizations and users to show images of what’s actually happening on the ground. In partnership with geospatial imagery company GeoEye , Google has just released a new layer for Google Earth showing post-earthquake devastation
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