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Cable Companies Admit its not about the Bandwidth.
SpaceX Something Big!
$30.00 VOD?
Hazardous Air in Iraq!
Skype to get Warrant Next court in your Car.
NYT Digital versus Everyone.
Tangibile Good Study.
MPAA & Indie Film Producers.
Amazon Cloud Player.
Do Not Track gaining Favor.
WOW users wants heavy fine now!
SQL Injection Attack!
Slice HD to real!
Boxcar App you need to try!
Google Mobile Updated.
Twitter Real Numbers.
Meteor Radar?
Up close with Mercury.
Refueling in Space.
REBR Calls home after Re-Entry!
Failed Star place to look for Aliens?
Sun Image Spectacular.
Another Skype Outage.
Hard Time for Movie Uploader.
Windows Phone 7 by the Numbers.
Last Pair of Nail Clippers.
Wallet Eliminator.
Water Leak Alarms.
Cyber Snipa Headset!
Cool Commercial.
Roku goes Retail.
Old School Emulators.
Google +1 Button.
Google Versus Demand Media.
Google Page Speed.
Logitech Wireless Windmill
EV Battery Swap Station.
Adobe Photoshop iPad App Demo.
Face Identification?
Apogee Duet 2
207 MPG in ok Looking Car.
Did you backup Today?
Hotmail Desktop Notification.
Google Clamps down on Android.

Todd likes to ask the question, “why is __________ still around?”  He asked it last week about Hotmail.  It’s not a huge mystery if you work in academics.

Hotmail, in the form of “Windows Live” email, exists on a great number of campuses across the country, providing student email that (in theory) integrates with other campus business systems (like class registration, emergency notification, and content delivery).  When clicking on the “student email” link on our college’s home page, students are taken to a page that says Hotmail on one side, and Windows Live on the other.  Their activated login for the mail is their passport to other sites within our system, as well as within Microsoft’s Passport experience.

As long as Microsoft has this link to colleges and universities, Hotmail will live on.

Back in the day, Hotmail was where it was at.  It was one of the first, and most robust, web-based free email systems, and people signed up in droves.  There were problems, yes, but it was still better than needing to be at your own personal computer in order to get your mail.  It eventually offered pop3 access as well, and then the Passport came along, and it was all good.  Not perfect, but good.  And many many people used Hotmail.  It was easy to set up, it was reasonably good at catching spam after the first few years, and it didn’t have down time.  As time went along, other free offerings hit the market.

And Microsoft was smart.  When gmail became available, they knew they were going to take a hit.  The only way to survive was the change the business model, and make Hotmail relevant.  They did that by providing Windows Live to college campuses, creating a model that could integrate with the already-used Exchange systems in place.  All support is handled by Microsoft or a third party, the systems are as automated as possible, and the uptime is nearly 100%.

And this is why Hotmail survives.  And if you’re a college student, you might be using it every day.

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AT&T Network is Saturated whimper whimper.
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IMing, shorthand for Instant Messaging, could waste a lot of valuable business time. Even though IM could be a digital replacement to the office water cooler, replacing the physical congregating to swap office gossip and the athletic spreads, IM seems to be used appropriately.

While some users think that their quick-fire messages can’t be monitored by the boss, but more than two-thirds rightly think that their messages can be traced.

Dave’s Opinion
I think it’s specifically because IM can be traced that we’re using it primarily for business-related work. Sure, it’s a bit like e-mail, but it has the benefit of reciprocal conversation, just like a phone call or face-to-face meeting.

I recommend the Trillian IM app.

Call for Comments
What do you think? Do you use IM on the job? Leave your comments below.

References
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