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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Here's A Leaked Internal Microsoft Video Making Fun Of Gmail For Reading All Your Emails (MSFT, GOOG)

Microsoft made the following video spoofing Google's Gmail for its Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) event, which is a gather of its salesforce.

ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley got it from an attendee, and while Microsoft hasn't officially commented, it looks real -- it has the "Contoso" brand that Microsoft uses in a lot of its demos. (Microsoft actually owns the copyright so nobody else can use that name.)

This ad isn't airing publicly and is not meant for official distribution -- it's really just to fire up the troops -- but it is a little bit misleading.

The video shows the "Gmail Man" reading through people's letters looking for keywords to serve up ads. This is what the personal version of Gmail does.

However businesses can turn the ads off -- that's one of the things businesses get by paying for Google Apps. So there's really no advantage for Microsoft's Office 365 here.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Comment on Is it time for a charter to improve the emails we send? by Peter

These are the same "rules of email" I've been seeing for 10 years, nothing new here. This whole idea sounds like a bunch of self-proclaimed experts chasing a problem that doesn't exist for most people. Maybe THEY just can't figure out how to deal with email, but most of the rest of the users seem to be getting along just fine.

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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Leaked Emails From Google Show How Important Location Data Is To Android (GOOG)

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The San Jose Mercury News landed some leaked emails from Google CEO Larry Page, as well as other top Google executives, which show how important gathering location data is for its mobile plans.

Last year, Motorola, one of Google's biggest mobile partners, was planning on using Skyhook Wireless's location data for its handsets over Google's location data.

The Mercury News says that when Page read about Motorola's decision to use a "competitor's" location service -- we're guessing it was Skyhook -- he pasted the article in an email to top executives at Google and asked, "Can I get a response on this?"

The Mercury News says "a detailed memo" was quickly sent back to Page, with Android boss Andy Rubin writing, location data from mobile phones was "extremely valuable to Google," because it was having trouble getting the data via its Street View cars.

Google's Street View cars were busted for gathering data from unsecured wifi networks. That blow up made it more challenging for Google to build a location database driving around and collecting data from wifi networks.

To build its location network, it would have to rely more heavily on Android phones. But if its partners weren't going to use Google's location technology, that would be much more difficult.

Google location product manager Steve Lee wrote to Larry Page, "I cannot stress enough how important Google's wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy ... We absolutely do care about this (decision by Motorola) because we need wifi data collection in order to maintain and improve our wifi location service."

Skyhook is currently suing Google saying it unfairly blocked Motorola from using Skyhook's services.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Steve Jobs Emails Apple Staff In Japan

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Steve Jobs has personally sent a touching and heartwarming message of support to Apple employees in Japan.

He offers resources and also ways to help out.

It's a great gesture:

To Our Team in Japan,

We have all been following the unfolding disaster in Japan. Our hearts go out to you and your families, as well as all of your countrymen who have been touched by this tragedy.

If you need time or resources to visit or care for your families, please see HR and we will help you. If you are aware of any supplies that are needed, please also tell HR and we will do what we can to arrange delivery.

Again, our hearts go out to you during this unimaginable crisis.

Please stay safe.

Steve and the entire Executive Team

(Via MacRumors)

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