Gmail’s “Quick Action” Buttons Now Support One-Click Access To Google Offers …
Google today is expanding the functionality of Gmail’s "quick action" buttons, which will now allow users to press a button next to emails in their inbox in order to take additional actions, like rating and reviewing restaurants you’ve ordered from on Seamless, modifying OpenTable reservations, saving promotions from Google Offers,…
Perspective: What’s Microsoft’s Office Web Apps strategy?
Computerworld – Microsoft’s addition of real-time collaboration to its free Office Web Apps last week was necessary in the short term to counter Google Docs, analysts agreed. But the company’s longer-term strategy for the browser-based Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps remains less clear. "Real-time collaboration is what got Docs on…
Time to abandon Gmail?
Gmail is the best of its time. The thing is: its time was 2009 David Braue: Gmail was born to outshine Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Hotmail. Superlative spam catching, innovations like Gmail Labs and the high-value (and free) Google Apps bundle embodied Google’s debonair anti-establishmentarianism and made us forget its sole…
Switching from Windows to Mac: What I Learned
Apple announced new Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro laptops at its event last month, as well as the launch of the latest version of OS X, Mavericks. For this PC user, it was enough to finally make the jump from Windows to Mac for the first time. Almost everyone I know…
PandoWeekly with Adam Ludwin: When messaging, photo sharing and gaming …
Earlier this week, photo sharing app Albumatic announced it can now be known as Koa.la. The company pivoted, for a second time, away from its original group photo sharing idea, to become an app studio of sorts. It has built three apps for the Kik messenger platform, one of which…
A quick turnaround on the second pass for this chapter
OK, I know I just posted the first version of this chapter, but what the heck, here’s a quick update. This second version of the Install chapter for Windows 8.1 Book adds a number of new sections and other additions. As I noted in the first update for the Install chapter,…
Patch Day November: Microsoft plant acht Security Bulletins für den 12. November
08.11.2013 Der Patch Day November von Microsoft haelt acht Security Bulletins bereit, davon sind drei als kritisch eingestuft. Die neue Zero-Day-Luecke bleibt vorerst offen. Drei der acht fuer den Patch Day November angekuendigten Security Bulletins sollen als kritisch eingestufte Sicherheitsluecken in Windows sowie im Internet Explorer behandeln. Weitere fuenf Bulletins sollen…
Codemasters are stripping Games for Windows Live from Dirt 3 in favour of …
Following the news that Bioshock 2’s been stripped of Games for Windows Live, Codemasters have announced that they’re removing the outdated service from Dirt 3. The DRM system developed by Microsoft is due to be shut down on 1 July, 2014. When it goes offline it will stop many of Codemasters are working…
Dalma Energy deploys first Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Cloud in Oman with IOTAP
Dalma Energy deploys first Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Cloud in Oman with IOTAP : Sunday, November 10 – 2013 @ 07:35 Microsoft Oman and IOTAP announced that Dalma Energy has decided to adopt Microsoft Office 365 as their messaging platform to improve the level of their employees’ communication and collaboration across its network. IOTAP, an Al Ansari…
Next Big Thing: Music messaging
It’s sending songs or at least portions of songs to your contacts via a smartphone app. Think WhatsApp, but instead of sending someone a text message, emoji, picture or sound clip you’ve just recorded, you can send your new favourite tune.Can’t I already do that with existing apps like Spotify…
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