How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users
Sorry, Mail. My fledging relationship with you was just killed thanks to OS X Mavericks. TidBITS confirmed what I suspected the first time I launched Apple Mail after upgrading to Mavericks on Tuesday — Gmail and Apple Mail are no longer friends. It was always a tenuous relationship to begin…
Apple Targets Microsoft Office With Free Apps
SAN FRANCISCO At an event meant to feature its latest iPad tablet computing devices, Apple on Tuesday took aim at one of the biggest and seemingly unassailable businesses of its rival Microsoft, its Office software for tasks like word processing and spreadsheets. Apple said iWork, a set of applications for…
Batman: Arkham games freed from Games for Windows Live, but game saves lost
The PC versions of both Batman: Arkham City and Arkham Asylum have been patched to remove the ill-fated Games for Windows Live. The Steam versions of the games will have been automatically updated and will now operate from Steam’s servers. Those who bought the games from a rival provider or…
Google Docs and Gmail add handwriting support for over 20 languages
Google is bringing handwriting recognition to both Google Docs and Gmail to make entering non-Latin characters a lot easier. The support launches in Docs today for over 20 languages, and in Gmail today for over 50 languages, both including Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and Russian. Once the correct input language has The update…
MetLife Banks on Microsoft Office for Process Efficiency
Looking for a platform that can be used globally to manage customer interactions, MetLife has begun deployment of Microsoft Office 365 to 64,000 employees and expects to have Office 365 fully implemented by November, according to the companies. SVP and CTO Jim O’Donnell says that the cost savings from implementing an efficient communication…
Asia messaging apps seek to upend rivals with marketing might
TOKYO (Reuters) – In the battle to become the global messaging app of choice, China’s WeChat and Japan-based Line have brought out some large marketing guns – TV ads featuring soccer star Lionel Messi, for instance – that have powered promising bursts of overseas growth. The big bucks strategy stands…
Yahoo Ordered to Offer Bing Search in Taiwan by Oct. 28
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) must switch to MicrosoftCorp. (MSFT)’s Bing search service in Taiwan by Oct. 28, a federaljudge said in upholding an arbitration decision blocking Yahoofrom postponing the transition until next year. U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson in Manhattan saidYahoo must abide by the terms of a 2009 agreement it…
How the myth of messaging gets politicians into trouble
The Washington Post poll out this morning makes it clear that public perceptions of the GOP took a significant hit during the budget shutdown. Polling even before the shutdown suggested that the GOP was more likely to be blamed than the Democrats, so the question becomes, why would a party…
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As an IT consultant on the move I rely heavily on technology to keep everything I need to hand – my personal and business communication, social networks and contacts, photos, music and more. Managing, securing and sharing all this accumulated data is a bit of a challenge, and is certainly…
Capcom looking into options to handle Games for Windows Live shutdown
With BioShock 2 and the Arkham games abandoning the quickly sinking Games for Windows Live ship for the SS Steamworks, players are asking publishers a common question: "Will I be able to play my games after Games for Windows Live is gone?" Capcom started getting the brunt of the attention About…
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