Hotmail updated to meet user demands
Microsoft has updated their Hotmail webmail service to meet some demands made by the users of the service.
The company said in a blog post about these changes: “We heard many users say that they had trouble navigating through Hotmail, especially if they had a smaller monitor, Hotmail will scroll like [...]
Power.com : Convergence of Social Networks?
Power.com is one of the newer social web services in town.
It does not try to emulate any other network but enables the user to stay connected to most of the other social networks at a single place.
Some of the features promised by the service:
Users would be able [...]
Microsoft Live Hotmail not supported on Linux?
Microsoft seems to be doing it all over again.
They have launched a new version of Live Hotmail service which features an updated user interface.
The service works fine on the Windows platform on popular alternative browsers like Firefox and Chrome.
However, users of Linux operating system are reporting that the service [...]
AOL allows access to third party email services
AOL has announced that they have now enhanced their web services to allow the user to access third party email services directly from AOL.com.
This would enable the users of AOL.com to access their emails from rival services including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail. They have not supported Hotmail directly as [...]
Skype 4.0 focused on enhancing video functionality
Popular VoIP application Skype is scheduled to get a major update.
Skype 4 is going to be focused on improvement of video functionality.
Skype President Josh Silverman calls this new edition the biggest release in the history of this application.
The service enables the user to do video chat in full [...]
IBM to make Cognos accessible from Blackberry
US based tech giant IBM has said that they are going to make their Cognos business intelligence software accessible through Research in Motion’s Blackberry platform.
They would soon start offering a mobile application that would make available this facility.
RIM has been encouraging software companies to develop applications for the Blackberry [...]
Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail coming to Blackberry platform
Microsoft and Resource in Motion are collaborating together to bring support for Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail on the Blackberry platform.
The two companies said that the collaboration is aimed to provide an easy mobile access to Windows Live Messenger. It would also provide an enhanced level of [...]
Hotmail access through Outlook Express to be blocked soon
Microsoft is again using cheap tactics to force users to upgrade their software.
The company has announced that soon Outlook Express would be blocked from accessing Hotmail accounts.
Users are being suggested to install their Windows Live Mail application which supports this functionality.
Microsoft said in a statement on [...]
Digsby: An instant messenger for social networking fans
If you are an online addict with continues need to stay connected to instant messengers, social networks and email… Digsby is a perfect application for you.
This application is somewhat like Pidgin but has added support for social networks.
It supports instant messaging networks including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google [...]
Yahoo! Mail touches 1 GB while we wait for Hotmail’s 250 Megs
We are TechWhack have been monitoring the webmail market quite seriously ever since Google’s GMail hit the street. After getting used to the convenience of the POP-IMAP/SMTP mailing facilities, we found little use for the free mailing services, however GMail changed all that. Now, [...]
