This is my second eBook pick courtesy of my Kindle DX and sheds some light on the internal operations of Google covering things from its genesis in a university right through to significant products such as Google Mail, Android and, of course, search. “In The Plex” was written by Steven Levy who also wrote Hackers, …
Tag: Google Mail
Jul 09 2011
Windows Phone 7 and Google’s Artificial Limitation of Multiple Calendars
If you happen to use more than one calendar in Google Mail or your corporate e-mail then you might have realised that Windows Phone 7 only seems to support the primary calendar for some reason over Exchange ActiveSync. This is despite other EAS compatible devices such as the iPhone and iPad having worked with multiple …
Jun 28 2011
Office 365 Drops Out of Beta
Here’s a heads up on something that has just happened this evening. Microsoft’s Office 365 product has come out of beta and pricing has been released. In a nutshell: Single users and small businesses can buy up to 25 accounts at $6 per user per month, Medium businesses and enterprises can purchase accounts for between …
Jul 15 2010
Multiple Login Support Coming for Google Services
A quick one for this evening. According to unofficial news site, Google Operating System, Google is planning to bring multiple login support for its services. This might prove useful for people who may have multiple accounts to segment their activities (such as work, personal and junk). Google isn’t the first to market with this sort …
Jul 05 2010
Backup Your Facebook, Twitter and Blog with Backupify
Are there some things that you have uploaded to a social medium that you don’t have stored anywhere else? Perhaps you are implicitly relying on Facebook and Twitter remaining operational so that all those funny comments, memorable photos, shared links and event calendars are not lost? If you have been following this blog for a …
Jun 29 2010
Exchange on the Cheap – Google Mail + ActiveSync = Google Sync
With the release of iOS 4 for iPhone (with iPad users still waiting patiently) the ability to have more than one Microsoft Exchange account (or similar through the use of ActiveSync) has been a long time coming. Those of us that use Microsoft Exchange at work know how handy it is to have push mail …
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