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Hotmail Users to Get Native Mobile Phone Syncing
Microsoft will enable Exchange Active Sync (EAS) connections for mobile phones on Aug. 30. This will provide full push email to Hotmail users, and also full sync capability with Windows Live Contacts,...
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How to Set Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL or Hotmail as Your Default Email Client
If you use a webmail service, like Gmail or Hotmail, you’ll find that clicking on email links on the web won’t work properly; your computer will often irritatingly try to open a desktop client that you...
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Microsoft Lets Hotmail Turns Select E-mails Into Apps
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Hotmail that creates interactive e-mails that bring the Web into messages. The update, part of a pilot program with Orbitz and Monster.com, allows those...
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Back from the dead, Hotmail plots its reincarnation
If you’ve been dabbling in the daily deals market, your email is probably inundated with emails touting the latest discount around the corner. Microsoft sees this torrent of email as an opportunity to...
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Gmail finally beats Hotmail, according to third-party data [chart]
Google’s email service finally became the world’s largest email provider this month, according to ComScore. Gmail had claimed the top spot for itself this summer when it announced 425 million monthly...
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Uh oh: Microsoft Hotmail, Outlook troubles bubble up again
Hotmail and Outlook.com e-mail services are down again for many customers and have been for several hours, according to Twitter reports and Microsoft’s own Twitter Support account. @ronan_kelly We are...
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How free online storage got to be so ubiquitous [infographic]
When it comes to online storage, we live in a time of plenty: Products like Google’s Chromebook Pixel offer 1 TB of online storage (enough to save 1,000 hours of video), while services like DropBox let...
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Microsoft Hotmail, Outlook problems crop up. Again.
Not to sound like a broken record, but Microsoft Hotmail and Outlook users are having problems again. In fact since reporting on issues related to the Hotmail-to-Outlook.com changeover in early...
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Microsoft explains latest Hotmail, Outlook glitch
Microsoft attributed the March 12 glitch affecting Hotmail and Outlook.com to a temperature spike in one of its data centers. Many users said they had no access to the services on Tuesday night and...
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Man bites dog: Microsoft Outlook.com embraces Gmail users
Here’s an interesting tidbit: Microsoft is making it easier for users of its Outlook.com email to chat and collaborate with Gmail users. Or, as the Microsoft blog post announcing the move put it: “…...
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Euros dialing up IP-TV
In the penultimate issue of Red Herring, I had written a long piece about IP-TV, and pointed out that Europeans and Asians would whole heartedly adopt the IP-TV, but it will be a bit of a slow starter...
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Oregon’s bad Broadband Xmas
The Oregonian: reports that Portland, Oregon-based Network Elements is desperately looking for a buyer. Founded in 1998, the privately held Beaverton company made optoelectronic devices and had raised...
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Shake Shake Da VoIP
Things are not looking good in VoIP land, and some of the marginal players are feeling the pressure of resurgent cable operators, and scorch earth tactics of Vonage. Presence of natural born channels...
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Windows Mobile 5 & 6 feature comparison
Jason Langridge has a pretty hot document: this two page Adobe PDF is a fantastic feature comparison between Windows Mobile versions 5 and 6! I’m personally happy to see features like: Remote access...
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Move Networks, Acinion Raise Millions
Online video infrastructure companies are in high demand these days, and they’re taking advantage of the opportunity to haul in cash. Dan Primack of Private Equity Hub has the scoop on two deals: Move...
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Piper Jaffray- ultra-portable Mac “likely”
The discussion of an ultra-portable device from Cupertino just won’t fade and is now picking up some credible backing. Investment bank Piper Jaffray’s analysts are claiming that Apple will either...
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HBO’s Baffling Broadband Plan
HBO has announced that it is finally going to start offering its content online (in a somewhat meaningful way) through its new HBO on Broadband service. But the initiative seems so unnecessarily...
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He’s gettin’ old… er, I mean: Happy Birthday James!
OK, he might not be getting his present on time… c’mon Fujitsu, don’t you have his birthday in Plaxo, Outlook or something?!? Just because there’s no gift from the FedEx man today doesn’t mean we can’t...
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Jailbreaking Hotmail
With Microsoft’s announcement this week that Outlook and Outlook Express will no longer support desktop access to Hotmail accounts raises some interesting questions on data portability. After 30th...
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56.com Back in the Land of the Living
56.com, the Chinese video site that has been unavailable for more than a month, came back online sometime early this morning. The site appears to be in its normal state, despite rumors that it was...
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