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Following Google's offline access lead, Yahoo's Zimbra unit brings offline access to Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools. The software makes a fine alternative to Google Apps and Microsoft Office despite uncertainty over Yahoo's future.
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An analyst argues that a marriage between the open-source mobile operating systems of Symbian and Android would be good for both Google and Nokia. The analyst contends that Nokia and other users of Symbian, principally Motorola, DoCoMo and Sony Ericsson, don't want to compete in the mobile operating system market.
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Convicted penny stock e-mail hustler Eddie Davidson kills his wife and young daughter before taking his own life just days after escaping from a federal minimum security prison.
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Gartner analyst Ray Valdes discusses Facebook's F8 developer conference with eWEEK. The one-day event included the formal unveiling of Facebook Connect, the company's external social service, as well as the international expansion of its developer site and some new developer programs. The event disappointed some attendees, who expected the company to launch a payment processing service. Valdes discusses how the lack of a payment processing system won't get Facebook lovers down, as well as what Connect means to the social networking community.
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The Taliban embraces technology to promote its exploits and lambast Afghan and Western enemies, according to a think tank.
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Prosecutors are expected to ask that Google executives stand trial on charges of defamation and violation of privacy over a video on the company's Italian-language site.
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The Open Web Foundation launches at OSCON with a focus on keeping open-source community efforts open and unfettered.The effort is backed by individuals and companies such as Facebook, Google and MySpace.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Garmin unveils its latest crossover GPS device, the Nuvi 500 series, at the British Automotive show in London.
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Linux Pundit's Bill Weinberg, Motorola's Christy Wyatt, Intel's Ram Peddibholta, and a panel with executives from Access, Funambol, Sprint, and Sun will present at the Mobile Linux Conference during the larger LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Aug. 5 to 7, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco..
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Last year, Facebook changed the social networking game by unveiling its Facebook Platform, which allowed programmers to build fun applications such as Slide and SuperPoke that occupy the time of Facebook's more than 90 million users. At this year's F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the next step with Facebook Connect, a service that lets users move their Facebook data to third-party Web sites. The following images capture the essence of the event at the San Francisco Design Center on July 23.
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Surprise! The nation's wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, and their primary trade association and Republican leaders in Congress are all opposing an FCC proposal that would put free wireless broadband in the hands of consumers.
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Juniper Networks named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new chief executive, saying he will start work in September. Kevin Johnson replaces Juniper CEO Scott Kriens, who remains chairman of Juniper Network's board. Known as "KJ," Kevin Johnson was president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, its largest business unit, and had spearheaded Microsoft's failed pursuit of Yahoo.
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Kevin Johnson led the charge on Yahoo, and headed the platform and services division. The new Windows division will include Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. The new Online Services division will include search, MSN, advertising platforms, and e-commerce.
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The departure of business division president Kevin Johnson will lead to more changes at Microsoft.
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The just-announced Microsoft Online Services may be a winner—provided that Microsoft manages to iron out the service's beta kinks and to fight off the temptation to tie the services more tightly to the fat Windows client model than is necessary.
Review: When it comes to e-mail management tools, you can go with hard processes to be ruthlessly efficient or with soft social connections. After all, they are from humans.
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Communications Server 2007 ably integrates communications, but requires plenty
of Microsoft infrastructure.
Review: Version 8 of Adobe Acrobat Pro boosts collaboration and security.
Review: Microsoft has expanded Exchange Server's features, but the companies that need them may already have them.
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