The Web company Yahoo! has completed a cooperation agreement with Linux distributor Canonical, supervising the development of Ubuntu. On new installs, the default search engine will be Yahoo!.
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New features in Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4
Hotmail Wave 4 gets new features like Starring items as well as displaying messages in conversations. Thus, Microsoft fulfills its promise to watch closely what users like in competitive services, like Google’s web mailer.
Germany and France Warn Not to Use Internet Explorer
The German Federal Office for Information Technics (BSI) and the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) have warned users not to use Internet Explorer, making aware of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft’s browser.
Google Docs Gets Free File Storage
The web office Google Docs will soon allow you to store any kind of files. Each file can take up to 250MB, and the total available space is 1GB. Up to now, you could only store Google Docs, PDFs and Picasa photos in Google’s cloud.
2009’s Real-Time vs. 2010’s Cloud Computing
Social Networks have existed ever since the beginning of the decade, varying from social blogging portals, such as Windows Live Spaces, to video-hosting networks, such as YouTube, to mere social networks, such as Hi5, Bebo, MySpace, and most importantly, Facebook.
Collaboration Service DocVerse to Be Acquired By Google
Google is closing an acquisition of the Office document collaboration service DocVerse, according to a report by TechCrunch. DocVerse syncs whatever changes you make to any Office document to the screens of your collaborators.
News For URL Shortening
The past days have been busy for URL shortening services. Both Google and Facebook had launched their own, semi-private URL shortening domains. After that, the market leader bit.ly announced the Pro version for companies and businesses.
Google Shows Personalized Results for Users that Aren’t Signed In
Starting from now on, Google personalizes search results of all users, even when they are not signed in. The search engine learns which links individual users click most and will rank corresponding sites higher in the future.
Google Public DNS May Speed Up the Web
A new free Google service has been released to the public. Google Public DNS can replace your default servers that resolve Web URLs to IP addresses, and helps to protect your safety. If you want to use it, you must change the DNS settings for your web connection.
This Week’s Thoughts: Computers In the Cloud
Cloud Computing is everywhere these days. Microsoft has launched Windows Azure, Chrome OS also focuses on your data in the web. But what is it all about? What possibilities and disadvantages does cloud computing have? Finally: Who can or should use it?