BioShock 2 updated for Steam as Games for Windows Live closes
2K Games has announced that BioShock 2 and all its DLC are now available on Steam. The release follows the closure of Microsoft’s Games for Windows Live (G4WL) marketplace on 22nd August. The closure meant it was difficult to buy the game BioShock 2, also G4WL was the only place…
Google’s Gmail Android app adds mandatory adverts
Adverts have started appearing in some regions within Google’s Gmail app for Android that cannot be turned off. According to Dutch Android blog Android World, the adverts initially appear in-line with emails inside the "Promotions" inbox of the Gmail app. The "Promotions" inbox, part of Google’s algorithm-powered inbox filtering system…
Hike of the week: Enjoy autumn’s changes from Deer Park Trailhead
THE YOLANDA TRAIL near Fairfax offers an excellent autumn trek through mixed woodlands and forested hillsides on Marin Municipal Water District land. This moderately difficult 7-mile loop created by stringing together the Deer Park Trail, Yolanda Trail, Phoenix Lake Road, Shaver Grade and Deer Park Road provides a hike through…
Microsoft recicla contas antigas de Outlook e Hotmail
A Microsoft adota ha anos a politica de reutilizacao de contas do Hotmail. Agora, o procedimento teria sido extendido a outros servicos online da como o Live ID e o Outlook.com. A empresa confirmou a informacao ao Webwereld, uma publicacao holandesa do grupo IDG. O Contrato de Servicos da…
TigerText takes its secure messaging platform freemium, targeting both …
Mobile messaging is growing like a weed. But it’s not just teens sending stickers, emoticons, and LOLs that have made the category among the hottest anywhere in the tech sector. Businesses are increasingly relying on new digital messaging solutions to carry out their day-to-day tasks. In secure and regulated enterprise…
BioShock 2 has surgery to remove Games for Windows Live, Steam version …
As you may be aware, the Games for Windows Live system is being discontinued next year. That has left a fair few PC games who were using the system in a bit of a bind. 2K Games’ solution for BioShock 2 is to surgically remove the GfWL cancer and beef According…
Microsoft Recycles Inactive Outlook, Hotmail Email Accounts: Report
Microsoft is recycling inactive email accounts for its Outlook, Hotmail and Live services, potentially exposing users to previous owners’ private information, according to a new report posted by Dutch website Webwereld. The software giant’s services agreement informs users that they must periodically log in to their Outlook, Hotmail or Windows…
Microsoft Reportedly Looking To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices …
Microsoft has reached out to HTC to see if the company would be interested in adding Windows as a second OS to its Android handsets, a new report by Bloomberg claims. It isn’t clear exactly how the two operating systems would share the handset, in terms of allowing dual-booting or…
How to Configure Gmail in Outlook 2013
So you love using Outlook to manage your email, but you also have a Gmail account and you’re sick of opening separate windows just to read another email account. Guess what: you don’t have to. Not only that, you can also have Outlook alert you whenever you get a new…
Gmail Wiretapping Case Will Continue, Judge Rules
Susan Wojcicki, senior vice president of Ads and Commerce for Google Even as Google celebrates its 15th birthday today, a new court ruling finds that Google’s practice of searching email accounts to come up with keyword-based targeted advertising may be violating Federal and California wiretapping laws. The ruling from US…
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