Month: August 2009

Missing Functionality Exasperates Hotmail Users

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Hotmail, the popular webmail application owned by Microsoft Corporation has been receiving a lot of complaints lately. Users griped on an unannounced removal of an often used feature of webmail, the “Attach Photo” plugin. This surprise move left many Hotmail users puzzled, some wasting hours trying to trace their steps backwards hoping to debug the issue on their own. The “Attach Photo” feature is a plugin that allows users to edit and create captions for pictures for inclusion into the email body. This nifty feature compresses the files after they are edited, allowing users to add more pictures. This function was used often by Hotmail account holders and they were exasperated when they found out that function that gave them a very easy way to customize their photo uploads was removed.

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Open Book Alliance Gets Strength In Its Fight Against Google

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The company Google has a world famous motto – “Do No Evil” for its functioning, that what Google claims but the Open Book Alliance (OBA) in the field of online book scanning does not agree to the Google’s word. The OBA which was founded by Internet Archive has raised a united voice for those who have the feeling that Google enjoys a special status in its settlement with the publishers of $125 million. The basic argument for the dispute is that where as Internet Archive the competitors of Google has to negotiate individually with the rights owners for individual contract, Google has the liberty to scan without paying; the payment is to be done as and when the author claims.

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Microsoft Kept Busy Solving Existing IE Bugs

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The security vulnerabilities of Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer, are well known. Much of the viruses and other malware in the internet exist because hackers already know too well how to exploit Internet Explorer’s weaknesses.

Microsoft has not been sitting idly by however, and with the release of the latest version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8, a lot of vulnerability issues have been resolved. Together with the latest version of IE, Microsoft maintains a schedule of releasing updates or patches to software. Patch Tuesday, as how the internet press calls it, occurs every second Tuesday of the month, and has been Microsoft’s way of pro-actively making users involved in maintaining the software in their computers

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Sony Comes Out With PS3 Slim – PS3 Price Comes Down To $300

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Now here you have, the magical Sony PS3 with price cut along with a slimmer and trimmer model of PS3. The talk of better and less weighty PS3 model from Sony had been there was very long. There were lots of gossip around (what more can be said when there was no official declaration from Sony the manufacturer itself), lots of leads with no authentic things about the new product that is to hit the market.

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Using Windows 7 on Older PCs (3)

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Windows 7 has been proven to work on older computers 2 or 3 generations away from contemporary models. Microsoft has apparently fixed what was wrong with Vista and gave us a new OS free from the bloat and objectionable pop-ups that was the hallmark of the Vista user experience. Microsoft even announced that Windows 7 will work on netbooks. This is significant knowing that beginning in 2008, more portable computers were sold compared to desktop units.

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Are Those Bells Pealing for the Demise of Social Media?

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BBC commented on a study about Twitter on how pointless a good portion of the tweets were. The study conducted by Pear Analytics revealed that 40 percent of the exchange is useless drivel. Pear Analytics conducted the study by following random tweets every 30 minutes over a two-week period. Sampled tweets were placed into six categories: “news”, “babble”, “conversational”, “useful information”, and “self-promotion”. About 38 percent were classified as conversational, and only 9 percent of all tweets were considered useful. Surprisingly, 4 percent of the sampled tweets were categorized as spam.

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Microsoft Needs To Work For i4i Case Settlement

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Microsoft’s statement that taking off its application – Word from the market for a few months will cause harm to such a level that it can not be repaired is rather stretching things too far. However such a situation is bound create lots of inconvenience to the customers. Both the parties fighting this patent case need to reach a dollar solution after all it is a dollar problem. This has to be done right away.

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