Rather than syncing Google Calendar with Outlook, reader Seth uses the “homepage” feature of Outlook 2003 to access Google Calender. Here’s how: 1) Right-click on your calendar in Outlook and select…
Link to Microsoft Outlook Tip: Access Google Calendar Directly From Outlook

by Mark Bloomfield
In a world where applications are taking themselves online, there’s a host of amazing web applications that perform all types of services and cater for just about any industry. Thanks to the joys of technologies like AJAX, Rails, PHP, XML powered Flash and the like, there’s no limit to the functionality that can […]

Google launched Sky today, a new feature in Google Earth 4.2 that lets users explore not only our home planet but other galaxies, too.

Link to Google Sky: explore the stars

Microsoft’s full-on war with Google is about to heat up as the company expands its Content Ads beta program to include more US partners.
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Link to Google in its sights, Microsoft opens up Content Ads beta program

Last week’s Skype outage was apparently caused by a massive user reconnect after a Windows Update forced millions of computers to restart.
Link to Outages: Last week’s Skype outage was apparently caused …

Microsoft recently opened up the hooks for its Windows Live ID service, formerly known as Microsoft Passport, to all web developers. We’ll take a look at what this might mean for the future of online authentication.
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Link to Microsoft aims for online supremacy, opens up Windows Live ID

After an initially patchy recovery through the weekend, Skype says all systems are go and running normally. [Skype Heartbeat]

Link to Skype: After an initially patchy recovery through …

A major outage is affecting many Skype users’ ability to log on to the network and send IMs. The company is mum, but some pin the blame on a series of Microsoft updates released yesterday.
Link to Skype Outage Cuts Off Communication; Company Won’t Comment

Yes the Hotmail team has been quiet for a while since their v1 launch, however they’ve just launched a small but feature-packed update. As well as offering free accounts the new storage size of 5GB, paying customers (Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium) now get 10GB. Some other features include auto-away messages, useful for when you […]

Microsoft ups Windows Live Hotmail storage space to 5 gigabytes, as compared to Google’s 2.89GB and Yahoo’s unlimited storage.
Link to Web Mail Storage Showdown: Microsoft ups Windows Live Hotmail storage …