San Francisco: Microsoft's disdain for Google doesn't extend to all of its rival's products. In a rare bit of cooperation, Microsoft's Outlook.com is giving users of its free email service the option of logging into Google Talk to exchange instant messages and engage in audio or video conversations.
The tie-in announced on Tuesday represents an uneasy alliance in the midst of a typically contentious relationship between Microsoft and Google.
Microsoft is framing its embrace of Google Talk as an example of how it's trying to help connect people who rely on various services to interact with one another. Both Outlook.com and Google Talk are offered for free as way for Microsoft and Google to attract more online traffic to its advertising-supported services.
With the latest addition, Outlook.com accountholders will have three different ways to interact with their friends and family in real-time discussions. They have already been able to use Microsoft's own Skype chat service and Facebook's messaging service. Microsoft closed its Messenger chat service earlier this year as part of a switchover to Skype, which the company bought for $8.5 billion in 2011....
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07:05 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: For at least the third time in 11 days, Google's Gmail users have encountered 502 errors while trying to access their emails. The first reported Gmail downtime this month was on May 2, followed by another on May 8. Trying to access Gmail, a message on the page said, "502. That's an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again...
12:39 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Google's Gmail was unavailable to users for the second time in a week's time. Hit by a temporary outage, the Gmail website returned an Error 502 message. Trying to sign in to Gmail, a message on the page said, "502. That's an error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. That's all we know." 502 errors usually...
01:13 PM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: Microsoft has announced that it has successfully migrated 300 million active Hotmail users to the newer Outlook.com email service. The massive move over means there are now 400 million users of Outlook.com, according to a blog post announcing the milestone. "Today, we're excited to announce that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com. Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400...
01:03 PM, May 04, 2013
Milan: Napoli beat Pescara 3-0 in the Serie A on Saturday to postpone Juventus' title celebrations for at least another week. Second-half goals from Gokhan Inler, Goran Pandev and Blerim Dzemaili left Napoli provisionally eight points behind league leader Juventus, with four rounds remaining. The result means Juventus cannot secure a 29th title against Torino on Sunday and the defending champion will have to wait until next week's game against...
08:52 AM, Apr 28, 2013
San Francisco: Yahoo's email service in China will close this summer as part of an arrangement worked out with its partner in that country, Alibaba Group. The service is scheduled to close August 19. Yahoo is recommending users of its free email service in China transfer their accounts to another provider such as Aliyun, an email alternative offered by Alibaba. Yahoo Inc., based in Sunnyvale, California, has been phasing out...
10:04 AM, Apr 23, 2013
San Francisco: Yahoo is taking the next step in its effort to make some of its most popular services more appealing and accessible to the growing audience connecting to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers. The mobile push being orchestrated by CEO Marissa Mayer has hatched Yahoo's first email application for Apple's iPad and other tablet computers running on Google's Android software. Yahoo also has created a new weather...
06:51 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Dropbox Inc said on Friday it would buy the startup behind the hot email management app Mailbox, signalling its intent to aggressively expand its features beyond file storage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...
11:49 AM, Mar 16, 2013
San Francisco: Yahoo is spiffing up and expanding its email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground lost to a Google alternative that lured away millions of users. The changes unveiled on Tuesday are meant to make Yahoo's email faster and easier to use on the Web. To cater to the growing audience checking their email on smartphones and tablet computers, Yahoo also introduced mobile apps for...
05:52 AM, Dec 12, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc rolled out new versions of its popular Web email on Tuesday, the first major product makeover since Chief Executive Marissa Mayer took the helm of the struggling Internet company five months ago. Yahoo released new versions of its Yahoo Mail product for smartphones and tablets - in keeping with Mayer's focus on mobile devices - and a revamped version of its Web-based mail product for PC...
12:31 AM, Dec 12, 2012
San Francisco: Several Google Web products, including the popular GMail service, appeared to go dark for users on several continents on Monday. Google confirmed that "service disruptions" had affected GMail and Google Drive, its online storage service. The two products are part of Google's Apps suite, a Microsoft Office rival that caters to both consumers and businesses. By 10:10 AM Pacific Time (11:40 PM IST), Google's Apps Dashboard monitoring service...
06:04 AM, Dec 11, 2012
San Francisco: Google will no longer offer its Web-based office productivity software free to small businesses, the Internet company's latest move to expand revenue beyond its core advertising services. Google said on Thursday that businesses with 10 or fewer people will now need to pay $50 per user per year - the same rate that larger businesses pay - to use its Google Apps software which includes email, word processing,...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network. Facebook also said on Wednesday it is proposing to scrap a 4-year old process that can allow the social network's roughly 1 billion users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services. Facebook said it may share...
10:52 AM, Nov 22, 2012
London: One in five men have a secret email account they use to hide love affairs, financial issues and correspondence with an ex from their partner, according to a new study. Researchers found that millions of men keep an account they opened years ago to correspond with an ex-partner or somebody their other half doesn't like. Others said they deliberately set up the account because they were having an affair,...
03:29 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Toronto: Researchers have proposed a new statistical framework for spam filtering that can quickly and efficiently block unwanted messages in your email inbox. Scientists from the Concordia University have conducted a comprehensive study of several spam filters in the process of developing a new and efficient one. "Our new method for spam filtering is able to adapt to the dynamic nature of spam emails and accurately handle spammers' tricks by...
03:22 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: In a faux-pas, a Taliban spokesperson made public the identities of people on its email mailing list, reports ABC News. Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, in an email press release, publicly CC'd the email IDs of everyone on his mailing list, instead of using the BCC function which keeps the email IDs private. While most of the people on the list of hundreds of recipients were journalists, it also included...
01:49 PM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: While it was always possible to email a tweet, but not directly from Twitter. Now Twitter has added a new feature that will let users to email tweets directly from the Twitter message stream itself. Twitter also announced improved Android and iPhone apps and also enhancements to Twitter search. The new ability to email a Tweet directly from twitter.com will roll out to all Twitter users in a...
10:57 AM, Nov 16, 2012
The sex scandal that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has generated bizarre plot twists. Another top general exchanged what have been described as 'inappropriate emails' with a key figure in the scandal; both generals were drawn into an ugly child custody battle; and a shirtless FBI agent leaked a report to a congressman. ...
11:11 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: The scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus widened on Tuesday as US defense officials said they were looking into "flirtatious" e-mails between General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, and a woman at the center of the affair. Defense Department officials said they were sifting through 30,000 pages of email and other communications between Allen and Jill Kelley, a Florida socialite whose complaints about harassing messages...
07:54 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 10,000 phones are being lawfully tapped in various states, according to official data available on Friday. Over 4,500 phones were intercepted during the month of August in addition to more than 5,000 phones which were already being tapped. The interception is ordered by various intelligence agencies, police forces and Army. Besides phones, nearly 1,200 email addresses were also being intercepted under the Indian Telegraph Act, according to...
07:20 PM, Oct 12, 2012
