Despite still claiming that Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is the best option for email, Microsoft today announced that it has added IMAP support to Outlook.com for all users. With the addition also comes the OAuth standard for protected data access and use. The move gives OS X Mail and OS X Thunderbird email clients access to […]
Google has introduced some new photo editing tools to its Google+ social network. The new tools, a product of its Snapseed acquisition last year, provide a wide array of basic editing and adjustment tools to the Android and iOS Google+ apps as well as through Chrome, with users of other browsers having relatively basic tools […]
Microsoft has issued an apology for the three-day outage of Outlook.com and other online services, at the same time as explaining what caused the issue in the first place. A caching service that works with devices using Exchange ActiveSync caused the outage, with its failure and subsequent flood of traffic stopping access to Outlook, SkyDrive, […]
Twitter has pushed updates to its Android, iOS, Mac, and browser-based services. The update adds one critical new feature: Twitter will now sync direct messages, so if a message is read on one device, it will appear read on other devices. Until today, users would have to mark read messages on each device from which […]
Rumors were claiming that Microsoft would be launching a web-based version of their Xbox Music service and it seems the service is now live. Subscribers can access the service at music.xbox.com with the company also offering a 1-month free trial to non-paying Xbox fans. The web-interface is very similar to the one found in the […]
Microsoft has added curated content to its Bing search engine, in the form of Bing Boards. The experimental item is a visual collection of images, videos, and links that are organized by users about a specific topic, rather than being created algorithmically, and are designed to be complementary to normal search results. While it is […]
Facebook is joining the ranks of Twitter, Instagram and other services by introducing support for hashtags. People use the Hashtag , #, to identify topics and allow other users to search for them. During primetime television alone, there are between 88 and 100 million Americans engaged on Facebook – roughly a Super Bowl-sized audience every […]
Google today announced a sweeping redesign of Gmail’s inbox in desktop browsers, as well as the dedicated Android and iOS Gmail applications. The changes center on the addition of tabs to the inbox that are meant to help organize different types of emails into categories, such as updates, deals, messages from friends, and so on. […]
Speaking at tonight’s Yahoo press event in New York City, Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s Mobile Engineering Senior Vice President and Flickr product manager Adam Cahan revealed the new Flickr and accompanying new Android app, offering users 1TB of photo storage in a “metro like” user interface. A casualty of the new system is Flickr Pro, […]
Symantec announced the availability of Norton Zone, a secure file sharing service that allows users to easily and safely access, sync and share photos, videos and documents. The new cloud file-sharing service leverages Norton’s security expertise to keep data safe. Norton Zone provides 5 free GB of storage and users in the US can now […]
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