Gmail Finally comes Out of Beta

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Gmail and Google Apps Finally comes Out of Beta. Google revealed many of its most popular applications Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk had finally moved out of beta phase.

Gmail, has worn the beta tag for five years. The number of people who use Gmail has grown an astonishing 48 percent in the last year.

Google’s engineers merely looked over the products and were satisfied that our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking our products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.

By removing the beta tag from its products, Google is announcing, in its own unique way, that it’s ready to get serious about this market.

Bing allows the search engine to have real-time data

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Today, Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users. Microsoft is currently looking to make a bigger splash in the search market. Through the first nine months of 2008 the company committed more than $1.5 billion to acquiring search, or search-driven businesses including a $1.3 billion buyout of enterprise specialists Fast Search & Transfer.

Starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres. There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. Among the Twitterers that Bing will index at the outset are Wall Street Journal tech columnist Kara Swisher and a number of Microsoft staffers. Bing will index a few thousand Twitter users in the project's early days. The index includes Tweets from Al Gore, American Idol's Ryan Seacrest, and a number of other high-profile figures from the arts, politics, and technology

Now Bing not just as a search site, but as a so-called decision engine.

Gmail drag and drop messages into labels Features

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Gmail(GoogleMail) is a free email service with innovative features like conversation view, email threads, search-oriented interface. Now Gmail constantly adding features to help people become more organized.

Google has updated its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement labels in a more organized way.

Now the updated Labels feature to be located in a new area on your Gmail interface, above your chat list and grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels. You can also now control which labels that you would like to show and you can hide the rest under a more tab.

It’s also possible to drag labels into the more menu to hide them, making it easier to change labels than going to the Settings function.

Of the more innovative features that have been added is the ability to drag and drop messages into labels, just like you can with folders. You can also drag labels onto messages too.

Microsoft Windows 7 upgrading features and price

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 on 22 October 2009 world wide. Those who want to upgrade to Windows 7 on a older PC will pay a reduced price for the software. Stand alone versions of Windows 7, that can run on more than one PC, will also be available. The worldwide upgrade option programme is due to begin on 26 June.

Anyone outside Europe buying a new PC between now and then - running Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate - will get the chance to upgrade the operating system on it, at no cost, to Windows 7. While Microsoft will not charge for the upgrade, some PC makers may impose a fee to ship disks with Windows 7 on them to customers. Microsoft will make an upgrade offer to buyers of new PCs but will send them a full version of the software rather than an upgrade version. Hence the upgrade option was not available, Microsoft said, because it was trying to comply with European competition regulations. Microsoft has said that Windows 7 will be offered in Europe without the Internet Explorer browser on board.

In Europe the full version will cost the same as an upgrade version. In the UK the upgrade version of the Home Premium edition of Windows 7, available to those with an existing Windows license, will be £79.99. By contrast buying this in a shop, and which can be installed on more than one machine, will cost £149.99.