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Microsoft's lab cooks up photo collage program 05/09/2008 10:38:00
Microsoft's AutoCollage 2008 uses facial recognition and blending technologies to create photo collages.

Microsoft has released a simple, stand-alone program from its U.K. research lab that assembles photos into a collage.
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Gmail users report yet another outage 18/08/2008 07:56:00

Gmail users, including those who use it for work as part of the Google Apps hosted suite, experienced problems accessing the service last week.
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Apple's MobileMe mail, Google's Gmail go dark 13/08/2008 08:24:39
More troubles for MobileMe while an error in the contacts system used by Gmail prevented users accessing their accounts.

Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail online e-mail services suffered hours-long outages Monday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts.
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Apple calls end to MobileMe mail outage 31/07/2008 08:37:41
Apple restores MobileMe service after 11 days of problems.

Apple said that it had restored service to all MobileMe e-mail accounts and officially called an end to an outage that had blocked thousands from receiving and sending messages for 11 days.
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Microsoft adds free calendar sync to Outlook tool 28/07/2008 08:19:15
Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta synchronizes Web-based e-mail, contacts and now calendars.

Microsoft this week added calendar synchronization to the long-running beta of a free tool for users of its Office 2003 and Office 2007 suites.
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Defence e-mail goes off-the-shelf 23/07/2008 14:23:32
Classification software used by 35 govt agencies

The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has purchased a new e-mail classification system to reduce data loss and maintain compliance with federal regulations.
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Google tweaks Gmail to stop auto-adding contacts 18/07/2008 08:18:21
Google is rolling out a change this week to Gmail that will give users more control over their contacts list.

Google is rolling out a change this week to Gmail that gives users more control over their contacts list.
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Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL 17/07/2008 08:06:24
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.
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Instant messaging to overtake business e-mail 04/07/2008 07:39:10
E-mail's days as the preferred form of business communication are numbered

Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake e-mail as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.
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Open-Xchange users offered syncing tool for iPhone 06/06/2008 09:12:30
New feature will help make iPhones more attractive to enterprise users

E-mail collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has released beta software that adds an enterprise-critical feature to Apple's popular iPhone -- the ability to receive calendar and contact updates wirelessly instead of plugging the device into a computer.
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Inventor of Pine e-mail prepares for shift to Google 06/06/2008 08:17:42
Move highlights shift in how services such as e-mail are delivered to users

The University of Washington's technology staff demonstrated in 1989 what smart thinking and creativity can accomplish when it developed the Pine e-mail system, which quickly became widely adopted outside the university.

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