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Microsoft plans Live VoIP and video

News Microsoft on Thursday unveiled details of plans for VoIP and video products offered through Windows Live services that will include new VoIP phones and a click-to-call feature for address book names. Windows Live Mail, currently a desktop beta...

17 March 2006, 9:08

Yahoo takes the mobile plunge

News Yahoo Go Mobile, available from today, is a set of communications and media applications, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Photos, calendar, address book, Web and image search, news, sport and finance.

6 January 2006, 11:00

Online private eyes draw privacy complaints

News For $97, it will find out the personal mail box address of someone. For $187, the company will provide someone's name, address and mobile phone call records. There's Yahoo People Search, which allows people to type in a name and get an address and...

19 July 2005, 8:54

The awkward smart phone grows up

News The new software, preinstalled on all current Treos (including Verizon's), reduces the size of each appointment or address-book entry from 512 bytes to 32, making the phone's 23MB of memory much more efficient and thrilling the S.P.R.B.A.

4 July 2005, 9:25

News.blog: Yahoo gets mobile with social sites

News The service integrates directly with a phone user's address book and allows people to share status updates and messages from a variety of messaging and social-networking platforms. This service also allows people to track their friends using GPS...

Tags: yahoo, status, gps, nokia

13 February 2008, 9:28

Apple to iTunes users: Don't install Vista

News Among these problems is an inability to play music or video purchased from the iTunes Store, problems synchronising address book contact and calendar functions, and slowed runtime. Within the next few weeks, Apple plans to release a new version of...

5 February 2007, 10:23

Mobile phone virus claims first corporate victim

News The virus then sent itself to every address in the address book; it was opened by more employees, who activated it, and it spread," Runald said. The first serious outbreak of a mobile-phone virus in a company has been detected, according to...

1 September 2005, 9:05

Will Vista jam the Net?

News It functions as a phone book, mapping text-based addresses such as www.cnet.co.uk to the actual numeric IP address. As current IPv4 addresses are becoming scarce, IPv6 will provide easier connectivity across the Internet and remove the need for...

7 September 2006, 9:40

News.blog: New mobile to prevent drunk dialling

News The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book -- bosses, mums, exes, pizzerias -- if the breath analyser records a blood-alcohol concentration over 0.08. Address books and text-messaging can up the attendance of a...

29 June 2006, 10:02

Skype launches beta for Mac OS X

News Much of the functionality in the new Mac beta, however, involves the sort of features that Skype's Windows users have enjoyed for some time, such as menu-selectable dialling codes and easy importation of address-book contacts.

27 July 2006, 9:23

News.blog: iTunes comes to the Palm OS

News Version 5.0 improves syncing with the Address Book and iCal applications in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), introduces folder synchronisation, Spotlight searching of memos and for the first time adds synchronisation of iTunes play lists.

11 November 2005, 10:21

Microsoft taking the desktop 'Live'

News In its current form, the software also allows users to instant message their address book contacts, post a blog or read RSS feeds. The battle over Web email is spilling onto the desktop. Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week.

3 April 2006, 10:21

Why women don't like videogames

News In her address, Ray, author of the book Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market and a longtime spokeswoman for female gamers, offered up her explanation as to why women make up less than 10 per cent of the gaming population.

12 June 2006, 10:17

Woman sues Yahoo for using her image

News It goes on to give Yahoo Mail users tips on how to transfer address book contacts and customise the look of their messages. A woman in the US is demanding $20m (£10.25m) from Yahoo for allegedly using a photo of her without her permission for a...

5 March 2007, 9:02

News.blog: Google eases social links

News Or they tried address book import, but that didn't totally work, because they don't even have all their friends' email addresses (especially if they only know them from another social-networking site!

Tags: accounts, friends, problem, api

4 February 2008, 9:15