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New on Office 365: JetBlue, the American Heart Association, Patagonia

Microsoft’s Office 365 is gaining more and more customers, and three new companies have now joined the ranks, namely JetBlue, the American Heart Association, and Patagonia. With Office 365 chosen to serve as their productivity service of the future, these companies are now part of a group of over 40 percent ...

19 January 2012
04:23 GMT

Hulu Plus Unofficially Supports More Android Devices

One of the highly appealing applications that owners of Android-based devices out there can enjoy at the moment is Hulu Plus. However, the software is not available for all users, and enthusiasts considered it was high time they did something about that. A hacked version of the app has emerged online, allegedly offer...

18 January 2012
03:06 GMT

MSN Direct Service Gets Shut Down

Just as announced back in 2009, Microsoft has put the plug on its MSN Direct service as soon as the year 2011 was over. As of January 1st, 2012, devices that relied on this service to receive MSN Direct content such as Weather, Traffic, News and more are left in the dark. Devices that pack additional features, u...

4 January 2012
05:35 GMT

Learn More on Office 365 for Professionals and Small Businesses

Following the release of Office 365 earlier this year, Microsoft is offering more info on how professionals and small businesses can take advantage of it, and a new document aimed exactly at this is now available for download. Published in June 2011, the new “Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Service Descriptio...

25 November 2011
08:46 GMT

Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 Will Turn FPS into Service

With both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launching during the next few weeks one leading developer in the first person shooter genre has said that the market can support more than one big franchise and that the market is seeing both of them more as services than simply as products.Speaking to Indust...

19 October 2011
13:31 GMT

Xbox 360 Cloud Storage Isn't Being Launched Just Yet, Microsoft Says

Microsoft has denied starting to roll out the Xbox 360 cloud storage service, debunking several rumors that appeared earlier this week, pointing to the arrival of the first games that support the new feature. The cloud is starting to make its presence felt in the gaming industry these days, with companies like OnL...

8 July 2011
04:02 GMT

Google Voice Search Now with Support for Zulu and Afrikaans

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced the addition of new features to its Voice Search solution, with the inclusion of support for Zulu and Afrikaans, along with South African-accented English.Voice Search has been constantly updated with new features during the past few months, and now it off...

11 November 2010
04:19 GMT

Marks & Spencer to Offer Funeral Services

Retail giant Marks & Spencer is branching out, after registering a remarkable boost in sales over the past year. A new £900 million expansion plan announced the other day will offer customers M&S branded funerals.According to the Daily Mail, choosing fancier, customizable funeral services is the coolest tr...

10 November 2010
15:31 GMT

The Perfect Gift: Tell Her She’s Awesome Every Day

If you’re a man always on the lookout for the perfect present that can bring a smile on your lady’s face or brighten her mood (after it was you who crossed her, of course), here’s a solution for you: tell her she’s awesome.You can do so every single day for a determined period of time or only ...

25 August 2010
13:31 GMT

Orange UK Announces Trial of Mobile HD Voice

Today, wireless carrier Orange UK announced the kickoff of High Definition (HD) Voice trial on its UK mobile network in the South of England. According to the company, HD Voice is expected to provide crystal clear, superior sound quality to Orange's customers, while opening the gates to a new era in mobile commu...

18 June 2010
09:27 GMT

PrimeTime2Go Now Available for Motorola Android Phones

QuickPlay Media Inc. has released PrimeTime2Go, which will be available for Motorola Android-powered smartphones. This is a subscription-based Android service that does not only allow you to watch TV shows over Wi-Fi, but also to use the phone as a DVR. United Sates customers will be able to access the service via an...

20 May 2010
10:26 GMT

O2 Intros Home Phone Service for Broadband Users

Wireless carrier O2 UK recently announced the launch of its new Home Phone service for all new and existing O2 broadband customers in the country. According to the company, the new service is meant to offer great value for money and comes with options that start at £9.50 per month and include unlimited evening...

6 May 2010
03:42 GMT

AT&T Brings U-Verse to Chattanooga This Summer

Wireless services provider AT&T recently announced that it planned on bringing AT&T U-verse services to Chattanooga. According to the company, the launch of its services in the area, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice, should offer residents in the area a new choice wh...

3 May 2010
06:01 GMT

FLO TV Adds New Features to the Mix

FLO TV Incorporated, one of Qualcomm Incorporated's subsidiary companies, has announced the enhancement of its mobile TV service, by developing a series of applications capable of integrating video with social media tools and Web-based content. These new features are FLO TV's solution to the way customers a...

14 April 2010
09:17 GMT

Company Makes You an iPhone App for Just $25, Includes Ads

You can now have your own iPhone app featuring all of your personal feeds from sources such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Posterous, Tumblr, and more, according to a finding by TUAW. Also available for smartphone users running Android, iSites (by Generation Wireless – GENWI) is a new service that allows you to t...

22 January 2010
03:44 GMT

LiveOffice Announces Native Support for BlackBerry

Leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email hosting and email continuity solutions, LiveOffice announced on Tuesday the launch of a new BlackBerry application meant to offer a seamless integration with its LiveOffice Personal Archive and LiveOffice Discovery Archive. According to the comp...

25 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Orange Announces New Social Media Service

Wireless carrier Orange announced on Tuesday the launch of a new social media service, called People Projects. Users will benefit from a new Facebook application, aimed at offering them the possibility to access their social network, while also creating online groups that plan on supporting or participating at commu...

18 November 2009
06:50 GMT

Google Voice Adds New Feature

Google Voice is a service that enables its subscribers to enjoy the use of one number for all their phones, while also delivering a series of other features that seem to be constantly improving and growing in number. The latest functionality available for the service's users is the fact that inbound text message...

9 September 2009
09:06 GMT

MMS, iPhone Software Update Confirmed

AT&T has finally posted a statement disclosing an official date for MMS activation for iPhones running on its network. Moreover, the carrier has indirectly confirmed the rumored iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update. The update is likely going to be announced at Apple’s annual iPod event hosted on September 9 at the Ye...

4 September 2009
05:15 GMT

'Find My iPhone' Is Live

The new Find My iPhone feature targeting users who lose their device (or have it stolen from them) is now live, according to a Modmyi forum poster. The user allegedly gave the feature a try and, according to the post, it’s a go. “As of 22:55 PDT, Apple has enabled Find My iPhone, available to members of ...

17 June 2009
03:30 GMT

iLike Intros Turnkey System for Artists Looking to Make Custom iPhone Apps

iLike has announced an initiative to build custom iPhone apps for leading artists across all music genres. The company has confirmed a suite of new features for musicians, including a turnkey system for artists looking to have iPhone applications specifically tailored to their taste, as well as integration with Twitt...

13 May 2009
10:59 GMT

Nokia Intros Easy Meet for Online Collaboration

The Nokia Beta Labs announced on Tuesday the launch of a new service for mobile users, the Nokia Easy Meet, an intuitive collaboration tool that can offer real-time content sharing via both mobile devices and PCs. In addition, it seems that the new service has been developed so as to provide ease of use, and it doesn...

15 April 2009
02:39 GMT

Nokia to Launch Life Tools Service in India

Nokia has announced today that the pilot phase of its Life Tools service in Maharashtra, India shows that subscribers are rather enjoying what the company offers them, and that the service will become commercially available in the country in the first half of the ongoing year. According to the Finnish mobile phone ma...

8 April 2009
07:02 GMT

Google Voice to Allow Number Porting in the Future

It seems that Google has big plans when it comes to the mobile phone market and its mobile services. As many of you might already know, the company has recently relaunched GrandCentral under a new name and with a new face, Google Voice. According to the latest news on the Web, the service would be able to change the ...

28 March 2009
06:09 GMT

Nokia Comes With Music to Be Launched in the US This Year

According to the latest news on the Web, music enthusiasts in the United States will soon be able to enjoy the Nokia Comes With Music service as well. The Finnish mobile phone maker is reported to have stated recently that its plans include the launch of the service in the US before the end of the ongoing year. For...

2 March 2009
08:26 GMT

MobileMe Update Adds Improvements on All Levels

Apple has announced that the MobileMe service has recently been updated with a few improvements. Besides posting the announcement on the MobileMe News page, Apple also updated a support document detailing the changes that have occurred with the cloud-based service.Talking about the Recent MobileMe Service Improvement...

26 February 2009
02:50 GMT

Bloomberg.com Releases Mobile Website Version

The website Bloomberg.com is in the top ten of most frequently visited financial websites, providing financial breaking news along with a broad selection of opinions and stories from the Bloomberg News service, but also market data on stocks, rates and bonds, currencies, mutual funds, ETFs and commodities. The site a...

8 October 2008
03:53 GMT

Answers from Office Live Small Business

With the U.S. economy not exactly booming, Microsoft is pointing to Office Live Small Business for the right source of answers. The software giant's Office Live Small Business is a service designed to permit small and midsize companies to develop an online business. In  Microsoft's perspective, its uni...

25 September 2008
03:29 GMT

The App Store Has Issues

It's not just MobileMe that's had a rocky start, but the App Store as well. The latest issues reported by users concern the "brief" availability of a Nullriver app that seemingly conflicts with AT&T's policies. While some managed to snag in time, others, who had been anxiously waiting for the release, ...

1 August 2008
07:41 GMT

Microsoft Needs Two Years to Repair an Xbox

You probably know that Microsoft is not a total stranger to odd Xbox 360 repair stories, consumer service issues and lots of similar problems. Well, it could be that we just found out the most unbelievable story of them all (and it seems that it's also a real one): a gamer and Xbox 360 fan just got his console b...

9 July 2008
05:19 GMT

Investors Starting to Support iPhone Development

Word on the street is that New York's Pinch Media has attracted initial funding from Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital and a few other investors, in what appears to be one of the first signs that investors are eyeing the iPhone.Pinch Media builds free tools for iPhone SDK developers, the company says, a...

2 June 2008
03:15 GMT

Microsoft's Focus on Services Spans from the Web to Telco 2.0

Microsoft's increased focus on services does by no means stop at Web 2.0, as the company proves that it spans all the way to Telco 2.0. The equivalent of Web 2.0 in terms of the telecommunications market, Telco 2.0 benefits from a unique Microsoft vision designed to create an intimate connection between services...

20 May 2008
05:09 GMT

Best Buy Makes YouTube Stars Out of Its Computer Service Customers

Best Buy is the target of an ill-fated lawsuit filed by some of its customers claiming that its Geek Squad computer repair subsidiary is abusing users' data on the defective computers. Shortly put, each time a customer brings an out-of-order PC, the stored data is illegally copied and used in unauthorized ways.T...

8 May 2008
06:47 GMT

Fried Notebook? Whatever You Do, Don't Call Tech Support!

Computers are common devices in our day-to-day life, and, as any device that is being constantly used, they sometimes fail. We all rely on tech support, but there are cases when even the geekiest of the computer doctors fall foul and set the wrong diagnosis.A study conducted by Call7 unveiled that four out of seven c...

29 April 2008
04:12 GMT

Yahoo!: Live Streaming Video Service Rolled out

It's actually a wonder people not in the loop have heard of it. The beta launch was announced just briefly, in a post on Yahoo!'s Technology Development Group's head, Bradley Horowitz's blog that had three words: 'Live is live,' he said, and nothing more. For those waiting for it, the n...

8 February 2008
04:08 GMT

Service Launched to Bring Free Music to All!

Strangely, in the last days, all I've been hearing about is music, the way DRM should be removed because it is obsolete, that perhaps iTunes should consider lowering its prices and so on and so forth. A lot of talk around one of the best selling products in the world, talks which sometimes I consider to be rath...

24 January 2008
03:55 GMT

Twitter Crossing Language Borders

There's been an announcement of "Twitter in Japan" posted on the product's official blog and it had the Asian country's users fired up over it ever since yesterday, the time the news hit the Internet."To support continued growth in Japan, Twitter has formed a partnership with Digital Garage to create t...

17 January 2008
05:44 GMT

New Weather Service Introduced in Europe

This year's London Boat Show start has fortunately coincided with the launch of a very important addition to the Yachting and Boating World: an online maritime weather service that is said to be the best so far. Powered by Theyr.net, a numerical weather forecast service, it gives the most accurate information, d...

11 January 2008
08:37 GMT

"We Have Reached the Altitude of 20 Thousand Feet, Please Check Your Email"

How can this be? Inflight email service and instant messaging? Free? What has the world come to? Are there no more terrorist threats out there? Just imagine the way a conversation would go via Yahoo!'s IM between any random Arab terrorist (I'm not racially profiling, it's just that this is how they ar...

7 December 2007
05:01 GMT

Vodafone Services Launch on Nokia Handsets

Vodafone and Nokia must be a pair made in heaven, between the world's largest mobile operator by revenue and the world's largest handset manufacturer. The two companies will work together for bringing Vodafone services on Nokia handsets.The integrated suite of the operator's services will be combined w...

7 November 2007
07:20 GMT

Nokia N-Gage Launch? Maybe Later, in December

Nokia decided to postpone the N-Gage launch and seems to be experiencing some problems with its latest services. The delay will be of only a few weeks, moving the launch from November to December, this year. Nokia officials said that software testing is taking a bit more time than what they had expected in the first ...

3 November 2007
07:17 GMT

AT&T Expands Wholesale VoIP Service

AT&T just announced the expansion of its Voice Over IP Connect Service (AVOICS) service availability. The operator has provided VoIP service solutions to US customers for more than 10 years.AT&T has expanded the scale and scope of its wholesale VoIP services to all of AT&T's wholesale customers in the US. Moreov...

2 November 2007
10:42 GMT

The Beginning and the End of DVB-H Mobile TV

The future of DVB-H as the main mobile TV protocol is endangered in its wide adoption by alternative video services. YouTube is one of them, with the help of 3G that makes it possible to transfer video files at great speeds.The European Commissionchose DVB-H as the main mobile TV standard for Europe. The main reason ...

29 October 2007
13:02 GMT

Vodafone Brings Its Services in Second Life

Vodafone has just launched a beta version of a mobile operation in the online game Second Life that is supposed to allow people to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the physical world.The Second Life phenomenon proved to be an impressive one right from the beginning, when its pro...

5 October 2007
09:05 GMT

More than 40 Million 3G FOMA Subscribers

NTT DoCoMo has just announced that at the end of September, this year there were more than 40 million 3G FOMA subscribers. This happened in less than a year as it reached 30 million subscribers towards the end of 2006, six years after the service's launch back in October 2001.3G FOMA has had a stunning evolution...

3 October 2007
10:44 GMT

Disney Mobile Grows Up, Stops Playing with Cellulars

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) made official its decision of putting an end to the operations of its mobile virtual network (MVNO) phone service at the end of this year. The company intends to focus its attention towards the development of a suite that offers parents greater control over their children's ...

28 September 2007
05:08 GMT

Ericsson Awarded for Best Managed Services Platform

Ericsson's performances have just been acknowledged through the Mobile Entertainment 2007 Award for Best Managed Services Platform. The company has been especially appreciated for the worldwide deployment of Napster Mobile and some other successes too.The award is offered both to companies that develop entertain...

19 September 2007
11:30 GMT

Sprint Sees a "Mobile Shopper" in Every Subscriber

Sprint looks to make shopping easier than ever before for all its customers. The carrier has just launched Mobile Shopper, a daring move that no other telecom operator in the US has made up to this point.Mobile Shopper brings more than 30 online retailers on one single portal that brings users all the advantages of c...

14 September 2007
04:07 GMT

Nokia Launches N-Gage Mobile Gaming Service

One of the services that Nokia has decided to bring out on the market is the N-Gage mobile gaming one. This is meant to allow people to test any N-Gage games for free from any of the tens of millions of compatible Nokia devices on the market. If the user likes it, he can choose to purchase and download it on his PC o...

30 August 2007
03:45 GMT

Nokia and Microsoft Partner to Bring Windows Live Services on Cellulars

Nokia and Microsoft will bring a new suite of Windows Live services on the mobile phones coming from the handset producer. This will enable users to enjoy the most evolved solutions for accessible social interactions.The Windows Live services have already been available for the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. Micr...

23 August 2007
03:28 GMT


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