Jul 08 2008

Microsoft Wants To Give You 5,000 Gallons Of Gas

Microsoft in running a contest in which small businesses can win $5000 in gas, as part of its efforts to paint its products as environmentally friendly.

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Jul 08 2008

Microsoft Tests SaaS Waters With Subscription Office

Microsoft takes the wraps off Equipt, a new subscription offering that includes Office apps, security software, and Office Live Workspace.

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Jul 08 2008

Firefox Users Most Secure on Internet, Study Reveals

The study also reveals that the majority of Safari users were likely to run an updated browser.

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Jul 08 2008

Want a Head Start on MobileMe? Try Evernote

Evernote provides a new application that uses the cloud to make its powerful note-taking functionality available across the Web and across devices.

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Jul 08 2008

Microsoft Flexes Search Semantics With Powerset Buy

Microsoft said it intends to acquire semantic search company Powerset to round out its search offerings and edge closer to competing against the likes of search giant Google.

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Jun 19 2008

Yahoo Offers Two New E-mail Domains

Yahoo added two new e-mail domains to its free e-mail offerings, each with integrated chat and unlimited storage.

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Jun 19 2008

Microsoft Dogfooding Hyper-V In Production

Microsoft has virtualized about 25 percent of its production environment and plans to eventually boost that to 80 percent on the strength of its Hyper-V hypervisor.

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Jun 19 2008

Man Cleared of Child Porn Charges After Hiring Computer Forensics Expert

A Massachusetts man was accused of downloading and viewing child pornography on his office computer until a computer forensics expert got the root of the problem.

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Jun 19 2008

Vendors Show Midmarket Solutions At Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe

Here’s a roundup of the vendors that made it out to the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Barcelona, and what solutions and services they were offering to midsize enterprise IT executives.

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Jun 19 2008

Review: Skype 4.0 Takes Video Up a Notch

Skype’s latest beta has hit the Web, offering better video, a smoother interface and a significant overhaul to its look and feel.

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