Today the incredibly high-profile patent war between Apple and Samsung got underway in the U.S. beginning with Apple’s opening statements. And no punch was pulled — Apple’s lawyer made a few hard-hitting claims in the courtroom, providing documents that show Samsung thought the iPhone was “easy to copy.” Harold McElhinny (Apple’s lawyer) also showed...
Microsoft’s new emphasis on cloud services is opening up new opportunities to connect with social media. On Tuesday, Microsoft reworked Hotmail to become Outlook.com, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn and other social networks. And Microsoft is also working to integrate social networking features within the new version of Office, its traditional suite...
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Microsoft announced the re-birth of its webmail service today by launching Outlook.com and the service is getting more social thanks to the ability to hook into your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Twitter announced its portion in a tweet of course: Now you can connect your Twitter account to outlook.com to see your contacts’ public...
Amazon Cloud Player just got a major content and feature update, the company announced today, while unveiling new music licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and 150 other partners. As you may know, Cloud Player is a freemium platform that help users access their music in the...
Even though Google’s own social efforts shouldn’t be mistaken as direct competition with a social network like Facebook, the company announced an acquisition that makes us go “hmmmm” today. The company has acquired social marketing platform, Wildfire. The service lets brands manage pages, apps, tweets, videos, sponsorships, promos and ads all in one place....
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Microsoft released a new Web-based email client today called Outlook.com. The new online Outlook takes some of the aesthetics of the Windows 8 “Metro” interface and mixes it with the functionality of Hotmail. Many of Microsoft’s productivity apps also take center stage, and it allows users to import contacts from all of their social...
Amazon just updated its Cloud Player music storage service with a number of interesting new features, including an iTunes Match-like scan and match technology that allows Amazon to just scan a user’s music library and add matching songs to that user’s library without having to upload those songs one by one. Just like Apple,...
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