Outlook.com users across the world will be able to use Skype from within their browser, Microsoft has revealed. Previously tested with a small number of users in the US and UK, the service allows all users of the e-mail service to make video calls, audio calls, and send messages to other Skype users, all from […]
Yahoo email users seem to be the most recent victim of mass data theft. The search engine, in a security update, claims to have “identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts.” The company then took action on behalf of its users, prompting them to reset passwords on the breached accounts. […]
Google has posted an official apology for the downtime that affected its services on Friday, as well as providing some details about the bug that caused havoc across Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Google Docs. The company says “most Google users” experienced issues, and for 1 in 10 the connectivity problems lasted longer than 30 minutes. […]
Online knowledge store Wikipedia has announced plans to store audio clips on the biography pages of famous people. The idea is that future generations will be able to hear the luminaries in question, as well as read details of their lives and works. The Wikipedia Voice Intro Project (WikiVIP) was launched with the help of […]
Google suffered an outage on its e-mail service that affected all users of Gmail, as well as affecting Google+, Hangouts, and Google Play. Starting at approximately 2pm Eastern Time today, the outage prevented Gmail users from accessing the service at all, instead presenting “Temporary Error (500)” message, though after 20 minutes, a number of users […]
Google’s YouTube will be showing of a 4K-capable video codec, VP9, at next week’s CES in Las Vegas, according to GigaOm. The format is being presented as an alternative to H.265, and will be open and royalty-free. To avoid the lack of support that killed off Google’s VP8, the company has signed up 19 hardware […]
Twitter has today launched a web version of Vine, its video snapshot-based social network. The new interface is located at vine.co, and lets visitors access feeds for themselves and others, where they can like, comment on, or share posts. The web interface should also make it easier to share content with friends, since people can […]
Yahoo-owned photo storage service Flickr announced on Tuesday the availability of a new service that can turn users’ digital Flickr libraries into physical photo books. The new Flickr Photo Books service will “analyze your photos and intelligently crop, position, and place them automatically,” according to Flickr. The company says that a user’s collection “can go […]
Microsoft has introduced a range of new features to Office Web Apps, strengthening the free productivity tools amid a growing rivalry with Apple’s iWork suite. Real-time co-authoring is the focal point for the web-based utilities, enabling multiple users to simultaneously collaborate on the same project. The feature essentially catches up with the capabilities of iWork […]
Facebook has started to include more types of content in Graph Search, a tool for searching what others have been posting about on the social network. Graph Search will now search status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments, Facebook has announced. Previously, it searched mainly what was in people’s profiles, or in Pages on the […]
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