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Microsoft Office Heading to the iPad?

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:31:19 +0000

The Daily provides an unverified report that Microsoft is planning to develop a version of its Office business app for the iPad. Microsoft Office is, of course, not a single application. It is a collection of office components that includes various combinations of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote and other software.
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Reddit User Discovers Hotmail Phishing Scam

Kenna McHugh — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:23 +0000

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When a user of the social news sharing platform Reddit decided to investigate if a phishing message he’d received had actually worked, he discovered it had. A little bit of sleuthing revealed more than 47,000 stolen identities from Hotmail.com and MSN.com, all available for anyone to see.
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New Website Tools Translate Veteran Skills into 500,000 Private-Sector Jobs

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:00:41 +0000

Just in time for Veterans Day and with the troops coming home, the Federal government introduced new website tools designed to help veterans use the skills they learned from military service to find a job in the civilian sector.
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Searches Powered by Microsoft Bing Increasing at an Impressive Rate [Infographic]

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:45:22 +0000

Without a doubt Google owns a majority of U.S. search traffic on the Internet. But, according to Experian’s Hitwise report Microsoft’s Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google’s control over search traffic. With that said, if your current SEO strategy has principally Google in its system, now may be the time to broaden your horizons.
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Kinectimals for Windows Phone: More Fun Than a Barrel of Lions, Tigers and Cheetahs

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:55:59 +0000

How much fun can a game be that has no car chases, weapons fire, thrown birds or violence? The answer is quite a lot if it is the newly released version of a an Xbox 360 favorite Kinectimals. Kinectimals for Windows Phone costs $2.99 and doesn’t require the human player to jump and twist as required when using an Xbox 360 with Kinect. Your fingers, however, will get a workout interacting with the virtual big cat on the screen.
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Microsoft Marketplace Extra Site Provides Windows Phone App Recommendations

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:30:08 +0000

The Microsoft Windows Phone smartphone platforms currently trails way behind market leaders iPhone, Android and even the troubled BlackBerry. However, if new phones from Microsoft’s primary hardware partner Nokia builds marketshare, new Windows Phone owners will need a way to find great apps for work and play. This was a knotty task after Windows Phone launched in the October 2010. There was not way to see the full app market place on the web and the on-device app store had its share of stability and navigation issues. These problems have been resolved a year later. The new Microsoft Marketplace Extra website provides a curated collection of app recommendations, reviews and videos.
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Viral Radar: Microsoft Reveals Their Vision Of Future Productivity

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:41:00 +0000

An amazing new video that was uploaded earlier this week to the Microsoft Office videos YouTube channel and is going viral today, reveals Microsoft’s vision of the future. In the future, according to the video’s description, “technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go.”
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YouTube Hack Fest Claims Its Next Victim: Microsoft

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:36:34 +0000

Exactly one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was hacked, with children’s videos replaced with porn, another major brand has fallen victim to YouTube hackers—Microsoft. Microsoft’s YouTube channel was hacked on Sunday afternoon. All of the videos were taken down from the site and personal videos were uploaded, asking viewers to submit content, including background images, for the channel.
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Google+ Traffic Returns To Pre-Spike Levels

Kenna McHugh — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:55:07 +0000

Google Plus’ growth spurt, powered by opening the network to the public, was short-lived according to data analytics company Chitika.
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Microsoft Brings Broad Range of TV Shows to Xbox

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:45:44 +0000

The holidays will bring the owners of the Xbox 360 a broad range of TV shows and other entertainment content through their gaming consoles. Microsoft announced that the company is partnering with Comcast, HBO, Bravo, Verizon’s FiOS service and others with the intent to bring on-demand and live television content to the Xbox. The partnership is exciting but there is a catch – there always is a catch in these deals — most of the content is not free.
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Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone Can Navigate and Control Xbox 360 Content

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:37:08 +0000

If you have an Xbox 360 and a Windows Phone, you will have an app that brings the two products a lot closer together in the future. The Xbox Companion App will be available for free for Windows Phone. It will let Windows Phone users control content on an Xbox 360.
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Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People?

Tom Johansmeyer — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Facebook, right? It’s always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of the winners. Google, LinkedIn and Apple, however, are doing pretty well, too. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft and Yahoo! are at the other end of the spectrum.

The battles over the best minds in the Valley directly affect the users of the many social media platforms on the market. There are endless races to develop and launch new features that will attract more users and get them to commit more of their time. Just look at Facebook’s latest developments, not to mention the launch of Google Plus and the coming of a new iPhone, and you’ll see how important it is to have smart folks working for you in this space.

And maybe the latest hiring trends will show us who the ultimate winners in social media will be! Let’s take a look:

Facebook: there are no surprises here. According to Top Prospect, Facebook hires 15.5 people from Google for every one person Google hires from Facebook. It’s almost double that between Facebook and Microsoft!

Google: sure, Google is already publicly traded, so the big employee payouts are in the past, but it’s still considered a great place to work. And let’s not forget that Google is still the online leader, even if not in social. While Facebook has been raiding Google for talent, according to Top Prospect, Google has been taking people from Microsoft, Yahoo! and Apple. The biggest loser is Microsoft, which gives Google 5.2 employees for every one it takes.

LinkedIn: even after the big opening bell on the NYSE earlier this year, people want to work for LinkedIn. For every one person that Google takes from LinkedIn, LinkedIn picks up 4.8. It wins a whopping 43 new employees from Yahoo! for every one it loses to the once-upon-a-time leader of internet search.

Apple: Steve Jobs may be gone, but many new people are still coming in. Apple trades employees with LinkedIn one-for-one, but it’s still in a net-winning position with Microsoft. For every one person lured from Apple up to Redmond, Washington, the maker of the iPhone draws five. Like everyone, it seems, Apple pulls people from Yahoo! … at a ratio of 7.6:1.

Yahoo!: does anyone really want to work for Yahoo! anymore? Yahoo! is the only company in the Top Prospect study that isn’t pulling talent from at least one other company. Sure, the board of directors is in disarray. The massive portal doesn’t have nearly the prestige it once enjoyed. The real question, now, is what this means for the future of Yahoo! Could it wind up losing even more market share to its online competitors? That’s my guess, at this stage of the game. A great CEO and board provides leadership, but you need smart people below that level to come up with new product ideas and execute them efficiently. It’s pretty clear that Yahoo! is losing the race by a widening margin.

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Windows Phone 7.5 Update Being Delivered. Feels Like My Phone is Faster & Better Now

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:48:41 +0000

Example of new Windows Phone 7.5 threaded messaging.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 (pre-launch codename “Mango”) was released as an update for the first generation Windows Phone 7 devices this week.
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Windows 8 Tablet has No Flash

Kenna McHugh — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:54:48 +0000

Microsoft’s new Windows 8 Metro is now on the market enhancing social media usage and, hopefully, making user’s lives easier. But, Adobe Flash and other plug-ins may not find the new product so special. Window 8 Metro’s interface will not support Adobe Flash or other plug-ins. In its place the new product welcomes the HTML5 set of web standards, according to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team leader Dean Hachamovitch.
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Google Desktop Retires

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:39:47 +0000

Google Desktop retired as of yesterday, and I don’t think the 7 year-old application will be getting the proverbial gold watch.
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