Gmail is Down in Latin America, Google is Investigating
At around 10:00 AM EST today, some Gmail users started reporting the service was down for them, possibly limited to the Latin America area. 40 minutes later, Google confirmed the issue and said it was looking into it. The Apps Status Dashboard has marked Gmail with a "Service disruption" message that reads…
Batman: Arkham City liberated from Games For Windows Live
Batman: Arkham City has become the next game to be liberated from the shackles of Games For Windows Live. Like BioShock 2 the game has been patched to support Steam as a replacement for Microsoft’s outgoing PC gaming platform but unlike BioShock 2, Batman players will lose their saved because Anyone who…
Windows Phone : Nokia Lumia 520
Si tu veux que personne ne voit ta vie prive, que se soit SMS MAIL ou PHOTO, bah il faut mettre un mot de passe sur ton telephone. Impossible de verrouiller les appli individuellement, meme si tu me dit que android le fait, c’est windows phone et voila. Je trouve…
Damien Grant: Greed a suspect in love affair with Xero
Eugene Fama, who believes share prices reflect all the available information, shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Shiller, who in contrast believes greed, fear and animal spirits drive markets and cause bubbles. Looking at the media love affair with Xero, I’m with Shiller. Xero has a fantastic…
OTHER OPINION: ONLINE ‘PRIVACY’ Should your Hotmail be open to spying?
Last week, The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency has gathered personal contact lists from email and instant messaging accounts around the globe including many belonging to Americans. The Post based its reporting on documents provided by NSA leaker-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden. The documents reveal that when it comes…
Free iWork Is Great But it Isn’t Microsoft Office
When Apple announced that its new iWork suite of productivity apps would receive pretty hefty updates, watchers in the crowd rejoiced. Here are the modern suite of applications that users needed to get work job done. At long last Pages, Keynotes and Numbers can effortlessly sync using Apple’s iCloud service….
How To Make Gmail and OS X Mavericks Play Well Together
Apple changed the way Mail works with Gmail accounts in OS X Mavericks, and that’s proving to be a headache for plenty of people. Luckily, the fix isn’t difficult, although dealing with the change is a bit of a pain. The problem is that to handle Google’s non-standard IMAP implementation,…
Microsoft’s Frank Shaw rips into Apple and the press for…
As is tradition, Apple threw a bit of smack talk Microsoft’s way during its big iPad presentation yesterday. While CEO Tim Cook didn’t specifically call out Microsoft, he said Apple’s competition was "confused." "Now they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs," Cook said in an obvious…
Product Review: Microsoft Office 2013
Microsoft’s Office 2013 suite of software comes with a number of features that make it easier for users to collaborate. The software also offers tighter integration with a user’s Microsoft account for reading emails and managing contacts and calendars. The Office Professional Plus 2013 version of the software includes Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft…
Here’s How Far Fox News Will Go to Avoid Bad Press
Here’s How Far Fox News Will Go to Avoid Bad Press Image Credit: AP Sometimes Fox News pundits say things that are not true, especially when they talk about climate change or Obamacare. Regular viewers tend not to care, and visiting viewers treat it with derision. However, David Folkenflik’s new…