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Hotmail’s SmartScreen Helps Dealing with Graymail

Recently, Microsoft announced that there was a new Hotmail available for its users to enjoy, packing great, appealing features. One of these is the Microsoft SmartScreen, included into the mix in an attempt to make the sorting of newsletters an easier task. “Since newsletters account for more than a quarte...

16 January 2012
16:51 GMT

IMDb iPhone App Updated with Trailer Notifications

IMDb Movies & TV, the dedicated iPhone and iPad app that lets you find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your must-see list and rate your favorite movies and TV shows, has been updated to version 2.4.As if the app itself wasn’t already great, the folks at the Internet Movie Database are throwing i...

20 December 2011
09:23 GMT

WordPress.com Debuts Google+ Like Notifications Box

WordPress.com has debuted a very interesting if not highly original feature, Notifications. Taking a few design cues from Google notifications, in the navbar, the new feature aims to make it easy to keep up with activity on your blog."Your blog lives and breathes. Today we’re launching a new way for you to chec...

7 November 2011
17:51 GMT

Get Rid of Unwanted Notifications from Facebook with 'Unfollow Post'

Facebook has been making waves with the big new features it keeps on adding, like the auto-share feature. But it's also adding smaller features and tweaks to improve the site and fight off Google+.One great new feature that has been quietly introduced sometime this month is "Unfollow post," which, as the name im...

24 October 2011
08:21 GMT

Select Who Can Send You Notifications on Google+

Google is enabling Google+ users to set who they get notifications from. Most people don't like to be spammed with notifications about everything that happens on the site, especially since they've got Facebook, Twitter and others to manage as well. Facebook recently moved to have fewer notifications sent...

8 October 2011
05:12 GMT

Facebook Creates Summary Email Notifications, for the Most Active Users

You wouldn't guess it, but Facebook owes a lot to lowly email, the most basic and ancient form of communication on the internet. Users receive email notifications about almost anything that happens on the site, dragging them back to Facebook to reply to messages or check out new events. Without the benefit of...

13 September 2011
10:11 GMT

French Copyright Enforcement Agency Can't Keep Up with Workload

The French agency tasked with enforcing the country's three-strike anti-piracy law is having a hard time keeping up with the number of emails and letters it has to send.The French High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet (Hadopi) has to notify copyright offenders via...

15 July 2011
12:55 GMT

Spammers Already Spoofing Google+ Emails

Security researchers warn that spammers have already begun sending fake Google+ emails that direct users to rogue pharmacy sites. According to security experts from Sophos who intercepted the spam campaign, the notifications purport to be welcome emails to Google's new social networking platform. It seems ...

2 July 2011
05:08 GMT

Nokia Poised to Change Mobile UI Approach with MeeGo Devices

Nokia still has to announce officially a device running under the new MeeGo operating system, but it seems that the company is confident that it would manage to make a splash when that handset arrives on shelves.The smartphone market is still a nascent space, even if it enjoys increased attention from media and hand...

8 December 2010
11:59 GMT

Google Adds Phishing URLs to Network Notifications

Google announces that Safe Browsing notifications about compromised websites sent to networks administrators, will start to include information about phishing URLs.Google Safe Browsing is a service, that aggregates data from various URL blacklists, as well as Google's own malware sensors.The gathered intelligenc...

15 October 2010
06:17 GMT

Nokia Notifications Available in Beta Trial

A new software solution is now available for download for Nokia mobile phone users, namely Nokia Notifications. Coming straight from the door of Nokia Beta Labs, the new application is meant to offer users an easy and convenient solution when it comes to managing call, message, and calendar notifications. “T...

8 June 2010
11:15 GMT

Facebook 1.1.2 for webOS Comes with Notifications

Users of a webOS-based mobile phone can now enjoy a new software solution on their devices, namely the Facebook 1.1.2 beta, which comes in a beta flavor with a series of fresh features, such as Facebook notifications. This is the second beta release of the application, and the developing team notes that the solution ...

27 March 2010
04:53 GMT

Finally, Facebook Gets Rid of App Notification Spam

Facebook is about to become a much quieter place and, despite it being a social service, designed to connect people, that's actually a good thing. Because it's not idle chit-chat that's getting silenced, thankfully, it's the amount of app spam clogging up your notifications inbox. Starting March ...

27 February 2010
05:08 GMT

Nimbuzz Comes to Symbian with Twitter Functionality

Award-winning new-generation mobile operator & social network aggregator Nimbuzz announced on Thursday the release of a new version of its client for mobile phones powered by the Symbian operating system. The main novelties the updated Nimbuzz solution comes with towards Symbian include pop up notifications and a fu...

11 December 2009
02:51 GMT

Nokia Updates Image Exchange for S60

Fresh from the Nokia Beta Labs comes a new version of Nokia Image Exchange for S60, which brings along a wide range of bug fixes, as well as accelerometer support for 3.2 devices. However, the new flavor of the application also brings a new feature to the table, in the form of notifications, which inform users on ac...

25 November 2009
09:03 GMT

Twitter Tests Tweet Update Notifications

Twitter may have been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to its new Lists feature, but this doesn't change the fact that it's facing a problem that seems to have been sticking with it for several months now. Traffic has stalled for the microblogging service and many users leave after the novelty facto...

5 November 2009
05:25 GMT

GPush - ‘The Missing Link Between Gmail and iPhone’

Tiverias Apps has released a useful iPhone app for fans of Google’s email client, Gmail. Described as the missing link between Gmail and the iPhone, GPush enables iPhone users to receive instant Gmail message notifications on the device. The app can also be customized to behave exactly how they want it to. &ld...

18 August 2009
05:52 GMT

Microsoft to Tackle Pirated Windows XP Professional

Having dealt with the SoftMod Windows Vista activation crack, Microsoft will start hunting down pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, the flavor of the operating system labeled by the company as most popular with pirates. The software giant has cooked and will release an update to Windows Genuine Advantage ...

25 March 2009
12:38 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04's New Login Screen

Ubuntu 9.04 is getting closer and closer to the final release and we thought that it would be nice to give you guys a sneak peek at some of the upcoming features. The new version of Ubuntu will be released in less than two months, on April 23rd, and it will be dubbed Jaunty Jackalope. One of these new features was i...

24 February 2009
18:06 GMT

Introducing the Windows 7 Action Center

In the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7, Microsoft is committed to offering an increased level of control over the Windows client to the end user. In this context, the Redmond company has fine tuned a variety of areas across the operating system, and paid special attention to the balloon popups from the syst...

11 November 2008
15:11 GMT

Microsoft: Disable or Remove the Pilot of WGA Notifications

Microsoft is providing end users with the instructions necessary to disable or remove altogether the WGA Notifications anti-piracy mechanism from Windows XP. However, according to the Redmond company, only the pilot version of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications can be either rendered useless or uninstalled c...

1 September 2008
07:46 GMT

Pirated XP SP3 Made to Behave as Non-Genuine Vista SP1

Microsoft has confirmed that the behavior of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been aligned with that of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Updated versions of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications have started popping up on the Microsoft Download Center as early as August 25, but it wasn't until a day later that Dire...

27 August 2008
00:32 GMT

WGA Antipiracy Mechanism Adapted to XP SP3

Microsoft has adapted the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification tool to the third and last service pack for Windows XP. Designed to inform the end users that their operating system has failed to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation process, the WGA Notifications component is now set up to integrate seamless...

26 August 2008
15:11 GMT


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