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Microsoft launched its consumer focused version of Office 2013, known as Office 365 Home Premium in last week of January and today almost after a month it came out with the business versions of its Office 365 software. There are three different variants to choose from, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, and Office 365 ProPlus, organizations have multiple options for obtaining [...]

Internet Explorer 10 has been available for Windows 8 since the OS released in October 2012, Microsoft today has made the browser available for Windows 7, it will now be available in 95 languages for users around the world. ‘With IE10 we continue delivering the best performance for real world Web sites on your Windows device. As with Windows 8, IE10 on Windows 7 improves performance across the [...]

Google has announced application sign-in and some other  related enhancements for Google+. It is similar to logging on to websites with your Facebook and Twitter IDs. Google seems to have arrived late to the game. Currently there are only 10 developers committed to using Google+ sign-ins. They include Guardian, Shazam, Fitbit and Fancy and USA Today. “If you sign in to Gmail, YouTube or any [...]

Yahoo.com is starting to roll out a new front page, the redesigned homepage was announced in a blog post  by Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer. The new look has been described as being ‘more intuitive and personal’. Yahoo expects to roll out this revamped homepage in the US over the next few days. The UK availability has not been yet announced. “The new Yahoo experience works well [...]

Microsoft is testing video message feature on Skype. Skype users in the UK and US using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other. Strangely Skype Video Messages won’t immediately come to Windows Phone or Windows 8. Video messages sent to Windows users will send a link to the user where they can watch the video online. Tom Warren of The Verge [...]

Dropbox competitor Box.com keeps coming with aggressive approaches to get more users, and one of the ways it does is by giving away free cloud storage left and right. Now, new users can sign up for an account and receive 50GB of space for free. Looks like Dell is simply sponsoring the promotion, but given that it’s an “Exclusive Offer,” we can’t see where the exclusivity lies. if you’re [...]

Microsoft today announced that its cloud storage service SkyDrive now stores over 1 billion Office documents.”Recently we reached a big milestone; our customers are now storing over a billion Office documents on SkyDrive!.” wrote Omar Shahine on Windows Blog. Sarah Filman, Lead Program Manager for SkyDrive.com, also announced a new feature which is said to have been based on customer feedback [...]

Google has purchased Channel Intelligence which according to its blog, “tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to consumer packaged goods”. The deal is worth U.S. $125 million in cash. In an announcement on the Channel Intelligence website, the company noted it has “worked with Google for years” as a featured Google Shopping launch partner with [...]

Facebook  introduced the Facebook Card on Thursday , a resusable gift card that can be loaded with balances for different retailers when a user’s friends buy them gifts through Facebook. Facebook has added a number of options to its Gifts platform, including Target, Jamba Juice, Olive Garden and Sephora, who will offer gift cards to be purchased on Facebook. But instead of sending individual gift [...]

Dropbox today unveiled two new products. The first is Quick Start, which shows an instant preview of the file on Dropbox which saves the trouble of downloading the file it to know what it is. Also launched was a photos tab for the web to make it easy to view and share photos you’ve uploaded. “Both are related to a shift that we’re seeing thats underway at Dropbox from thinking about things as [...]