Category: Microsoft
Are we addicted to the internet?
The internet is a tool many of us use everyday for work or personal reasons. In fact we recently celebrated the internet becoming 20 years old. Fact is the first 10 years of the internet slowly gathered new users. The last 10 years – user numbers have exploded! It is reported now 1 in 8 […]
Read More | ShareWhat companies are the most social? Infograph
A recent study – the NetProspex Social 50 looks at the social media/network usage of employees, and ranks the top 50 organisations overall social media activity. A range of companies are analysed including: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, Google, IBM, Sun, Dell, Oracle, CISCO, HP, Intel, Twitter, Nike, Coca Cola, Kodak plus many others. […]
Read More | ShareHotmail finally ditches advertising tagline in footer
Hotmail is one of the most popular free web-based email sites in the world, and now known by many as Windows Live. Hotmail launched in 1996 and grew very fast to an audience of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Microsoft purchased Hotmail a short while later for US$400 Million. Ever since you […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft adds new social search feature to Bing
Microsoft has added a new social search feature to the Bing search engine allowing users to see the trending topcis on Facebook and Twitter. You are able to access the Bing social search at the following link www.bing.com/social No doubt there will be a lot of trending tweets about Justin Bieber 🙂 Microsoft Senior Vice […]
Read More | ShareGoogle says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded
It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market […]
Read More | ShareApple World Wide Developer Conference recap
Steve Jobs has highlighted about the new iPhone 4 to be released in Australia around July. Nothing else was mentioned on Day 1 at the Apple Apple World Wide Developer Conference. Below is a summary of changes for the iPhone 4. Hardware upgrades – 5MP camera – LED flash next to camera lens – tap […]
Read More | ShareApple Safari 5 browser showcased at Apple Developers Conference
Apple Safari version 5 will be showcased at the Apple Developers Conference in California USA. Already receiving praise for being one of the fastest browsers on the net, Safari 5 comes with a number of improvements over the previous version. 1. Safari Reader A new browser based RSS reader called Safari Reader becomes part of […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates on Facebook and Twitter
Bill Gates and his father Bill Gates Senior describe some of their thoughts about using Facebook and Twitter to share their information on how the Gates Foundation is going. Video courtesy CNN.
Read More | ShareMicrosoft’s Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie on Cloud Computing, D8 conference
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer (CEO) and Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect) discuss how Cloud Computing is becoming more common and users like to access their application in the internet / cloud. Microsoft sees transferring applications into the cloud as an opportunity for their company and also others.
Read More | ShareGoogle adds Bing like picture to search page
We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble […]
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