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Office Web Apps in Hotmail & SkyDrive available ev...
Posted on Mar 09 2011 08:47 PM by xper in Internet
Office Web Apps are now available to anyone using Hotmail or SkyDrive in Central and South America. This extends the service to people in 18 more countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El S...
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BT Retail to remove Fair Usage Policy controls in April
Posted on Mar 09 2011 08:44 PM by xper in Internet
BT Retail has operated a combination of traffic management and Fair Usage Policies on its BT Total and BT Infinity products for some time, and April 2011 will see the biggest relaxation seen in this area for a while. The retail arm of the BT Group...
ImageShack Blocking Users From Certain Countries (Don...
Posted on Mar 06 2011 12:13 AM by xper in Internet
Starting Feb 22, 2011 (?) ImageShack has been enforcing a new policy that requires Site Owners and those outside USA, Canada and the European Union to register to them in order to be able to view any images stored there. This amouts to effectively...
Google blames software update for lost Gmail data
Posted on Mar 01 2011 11:24 AM by xper in Internet
Google said today a storage software update was responsible for causing some Gmail users to lose access to their e-mail data and said full functionality would be restored soon. Some Gmail users complained yesterday of suddenly and mysteriously los...
Bing expands Facebook “Liked Results”
Posted on Feb 26 2011 10:34 AM by xper in Internet
A few months ago, Bing announced an exciting partnership with Facebook to make search more social. As part of that work, Bing introduced Liked Results, which promotes links your friends have publicly liked or shared via Facebook. Today they are ex...
China Cleans up Spam Problem
Posted on Feb 26 2011 10:24 AM by xper in Internet
It's been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's top spam-producers. Rig...
W3C Accepts Microsoft's Do Not Track Proposal
Posted on Feb 26 2011 10:21 AM by xper in Internet
A Microsoft official said this week that a leading Web standards group has accepted its "do-not-track" privacy technology, which was developed for incorporation into the soon-to-be-released Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), as a submission to be ...
Google Search Algorithm to Reduce Ranking for Low Qual...
Posted on Feb 25 2011 02:05 PM by xper in Internet
Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so s...
Facebook Chat in Hotmail Now Available Everywhere
Posted on Feb 23 2011 11:48 AM by xper in Internet
Today, Facebook chat is available to Hotmail customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. When we first announced the ability to chat with Facebook friends from Hotmail, we were only able to offer this to customers in six regions. Since th...
Google Chrome Concept Would Kill the URL Bar
Posted on Feb 22 2011 07:57 AM by xper in Internet
Google is working on a “major” overhaul of its Chrome browser user interface (UI). Among the options on the table is the elimination of the URL bar, which could be the most significant UI change to the web browser since its invention. Another feat...
Stanford Researchers Double Wireless Networking Speeds
Posted on Feb 20 2011 08:32 PM by xper in Internet
Researchers at Stanford University have shown it's possible to double the data rate of communication networks without the need for additional frequencies, something that could lead to significantly faster wireless networking.Described by its ...
Internet Pioneer Wants to Take Net Off Planet
Posted on Feb 20 2011 04:33 PM by xper in Internet
Vint Cerf takes his title of Chief Internet Evangelist for Google seriously. He is knee-deep in several projects to bring the next versions of the Internet into the world -- or in some cases, beyond the world and into the solar system. One of his ...
Your New Facebook Friend Might Be A Spy
Posted on Feb 18 2011 10:09 PM by xper in Internet
The war between security firm HBGary and Anonymous reveals a new tactic: using fake social network profiles to gather information. Is that new friend really your friend, or just someone pretending to be your friend so he can spy on you? No, I'...
Internet Explorer should worry about Chrome, not Firef...
Posted on Feb 18 2011 10:28 AM by xper in Internet
The browser race is hotting up once again. With the Internet Explorer release candidate already out and prepped to be the most advanced, quickest browser to date, Mozilla is pushing forward its draft roadmap to complete four major revisions by the...
Microsoft has a change of heart on how to keep Interne...
Posted on Feb 15 2011 11:29 PM by xper in Internet
Should ISPs be the ones who keep hacked PCs off the Internet? Microsoft's chief security executive used to think so, but now he's had a change of heart. Speaking at the RSA Conference Tuesday, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustwo...
Hotmail delivers aliases to help you manage and secure...
Posted on Feb 04 2011 11:16 AM by xper in Internet
Starting today, you can create and manage multiple email aliases from a single Hotmail account. Together with features that we introduced in November that let you use Hotmail with any existing email address, the new aliasing feature makes it easy ...
The Pirate Bay set to launch The Music Bay
Posted on Jan 23 2011 11:48 AM by xper in Internet
Some interesting news today from the beating heart of online piracy, The Pirate Bay. It seems it’s got something new and mysterious ready to launch called The Music Bay.As TorrentFreak reports, fear.themusicbay.com currently displays a blank pag...
Facebook temporarily disables controversial sharing fe...
Posted on Jan 19 2011 10:32 AM by xper in Internet
On Friday, we expanded the information you are able to share with external websites and applications to include your address and mobile number. With this change, you could, for example, easily share your address and mobile phone with a shopping si...
Microsoft Launches WebMatrix Web Dev Tool
Posted on Jan 13 2011 04:03 PM by xper in Internet
WebMatrix is a brand new web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple...
In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of th...
Posted on Jan 13 2011 12:31 PM by xper in Internet
Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers. While Google is usually the company known for humorous pranks, it's a Microsoft ...
Facebook Shutting Down March 15?: Don’t believe a word...
Posted on Jan 09 2011 09:05 PM by xper in Internet
We’ve heard some crazy rumors in our time here at OSM but possibly the most unbelievable we’ve heard so far is the one that’s going viral across the internet right now which says that Facebook, the popular social networking site, is shutting down....
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Posted on Dec 22 2010 08:42 PM by xper in Internet
On behalf of all the MSFN Team, we'd like to wish, our members, readers, for those that celebrate Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you all for your support in the past year. We truly have an awesome community - you make all the...
Bing's Fall Update: More Helpful, Local, Social an...
Posted on Dec 17 2010 10:47 AM by xper in Internet
There are a number of links below that detail the features going live in the coming days. I encourage you to read the posts, try the product and please let us know what you think over at @bing on Twitter and at facebook.com/bing. Now, I want to gi...
Facebook confirms outage amid new design rollout
Posted on Dec 17 2010 10:16 AM by xper in Internet
Facebook apologized for a brief outage today, citing a technical glitch that prompted the company to take the site offline for a short while."For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externall...
Microsoft turns searches into Web albums
Posted on Dec 13 2010 10:26 PM by xper in Internet
A new Web app from Microsoft can bring life to your Web searches by using them to build customizable news-oriented Web albums. Demoed at Le Web conference last week, Microsoft's Montage can take virtually any topic or keyword that you enter a...