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techfile 17.6.09

June 17, 2009 5:00 am by Richard Waters

After reported intervention by the US State department, Twitter delayed a scheduled maintenance outage so that its service would be available to help disseminate the message from protesters in Iran. With journalists there operating under increasingly heavy restrictions, the micro-blogging service has come to play an important role.
How do you salvage a former internet star that has been flirting with irrelevance? Sack nearly a third of the staff. That was the first move by new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta on Tuesday as he tried to bring entrepreneurial drive back to the social networking site.

Tags: adobe, Facebook, Gmail, google, Iran, MySpace, twitter
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techfile 11.3.09

March 11, 2009 6:00 am by morning call

They’re still just rumours, but they’ve gotten stronger. A day after leaks from Taiwan suggested Apple might be preparing a touch-screen netbook, sources told Dow Jones Newswire that the new computers, which will be designed primarily for web browsing and mobile computing, will have touch-screens between 9.7 and 10-inches.
Google’s Gmail has suffered another outage, which it said had affected only a “subset of users”, but comes only two weeks after a major global crash of the service. Gmail’s increasing popularity was highlighted in a Hitwise blog post and charts that showed it overtaking YouTube.

Tags: apple, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Gmail, google, iphone, netbook, Palm, qualcomm, Roger McNamee
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techfile 26.2.09

February 26, 2009 6:00 am by morning call

Ratcheting up the growing rivalry between Google and Microsoft, Google will join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft that claims the company is stifling competition in the web browser market by including Internet Explorer in Windows.

Microsoft filed a suit of its own, alleging that in-car navigation system maker Tom Tom is violating eight of its patents, including three relating to Tom Tom’s use of open-source operating system Linux. This is believed to be the first time Microsoft has filed suit over Linux, which it has repeatedly said violates its patents.

Tags: apple, browser, Carol Bartz, Gmail, google, internet explorer, linux, microsoft, phishing, Steve Jobs, tom tom, windows, Yahoo
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techfile 25.2.09

February 25, 2009 6:00 am by morning call

Tags: Amazon, apple, bezos, Gmail, google, Kindle, microsoft, Steve Jobs
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Shed 10,000 emails on a Gmail diet

January 2, 2009 6:12 pm by Chris Nuttall

Google’s Gmail development team appears to have been in overdrive over the past few months with a host of new features and an improved application for mobile phones

For me, Gmail has become the start page and hub for all my web activity thanks to the excellent integration it offers with other services and email accounts. Read more

Tags: Gmail, google, Hotmail, microsoft, Yahoo
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No more drunk emailing or kids speeding?

October 7, 2008 3:24 pm by Rob Minto

Technology is usually seen as empowering, allowing us to do more with less, whether it’s money, time or effort. But we tend to forget the restrictive side of technology. This week two great examples have emerged.

The first is a setting for Google email, which is called Mail Goggles, and stops you emailing people late at night on specific days by setting you some arithmetic questions. You can configure it for any time or day of the week, but the defaults are Friday and Saturday between 10pm and 4am, so it’s clearly aimed at social drinkers. Get one of the 5 questions wrong or fail to complete in the time allowed, and it says: “Water and bed for you.” Ouch. Read more

Tags: Ford, Gmail, google
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