Someone was asking me this question today, so I thought I’d screenshot my response and crystallise it as a blog post.
Computers and Internet
A quick overview of the key updates:
Today’s inboxes are overflowing with mail that most people consider junk, even though it’s mail that’s legitimate. To help keep inboxes clean and organized, the new Hotmail delivers the first and only virtual broom, enabling customers to easily “sweep” unwanted mail out of their inbox. It also helps cut through clutter with intelligent filters that in a single click will filter the entire inbox to show mail just from contacts, just social network alerts, or just mail from the groups users belong to.
Manage your social networks from your inbox
With the new Hotmail, customers will be able to see rich previews of photos and videos from popular sites like Flickr, YouTube, Hulu and SmugMug, and see the status of tracked packages in real time, inside their emails. They’ll also be able to accept invitations to connect with someone on a social or professional networking site like LinkedIn – all from the convenience of their inboxes.
Increased attachment size
One of the biggest changes to Hotmail is the increased ability to manage and share personal photos and documents. Today, people are sharing over 1.5 billion photos and 350 million Microsoft Office documents per month in Hotmail. Still, the “attachment size problem” remains, regardless of which mail service people use. The new Hotmail lets’ customers send up 10 GB of attachments (200 attachments – each up to 50 MB in size) in a single message, erasing worries of attachment size limits.
You can also find out more at http://hotmailpreview.com
If you are an avid console and PC gamer, the meticulous kind who has hunted down all the pigeons in GTA IV, who has explored all the corners of Rapture in Bioshock or who has customized the best ride ever in Midnight Club Los Angeles, Take-Two Asia is looking for you!
Take-Two Asia, headquartered in Singapore is offering gamers their dream job, to run a state of the art game demo room and play games ALL DAY LONG! They are looking for a dynamic person who can not only master the many games on all of the consoles and PC, but one who can also talk and present the games while playing, showcasing the features of the games to important clients from all around the region. The candidate also gets to review all games from Take-Two and from other publishers and provide their feedback and inputs to the Marketing Department.
If you are interested, send your resume to fiona.ng@take2international.com
I loved smartphones ever since they were introduced. As with any new technology or system, the first generation of releases is not always as perfect as it hopes to be.
But many years ago, I was an adopter of Sony Ericsson’s lineup of smartphones and I had used the P800 and P910i for a couple of years before switching to another model (which I would not classify into a smartphone category). But there’s one thing I learnt from being an early adopter is the first generation of releases will be not without bugs. That’s the price I believe most people pay for wanting to be envious for being the owner of a ‘latest technology’.
When Iphone was first released sometime last year, it was not easily available here and that its price was deemed not accessible. But there were many who subscribed to its coolness factor and it paved the way for a second generation release, aptly named iPhone 3G.
Around this time, Samsung announced its Omnia phone, which sparked many discussions and debate over the iPhone.
The attraction of the iPhone 3G is great, and the peer pressure of knowing people around you talking about the product can be influential. But not all features of the iPhone 3G are fantastic – eg. the 2.0 megapixel camera is kinda outdated, and it doesn’t support Flash, along with 6 other ‘relatively-important’ features.
Of course, iPhone 3G users will say that you can download all these from its Service App store, and even though some may be free, it’s like buying an incomplete product and the current price plans and retail cost of the iPhone 3G doesn’t seem to justify the decision to spend.
On the other hand, the Omnia is more complete right of the box and some of its features are far superior. Check out this review site. And if you want to purchase the Omnia from your favourite store, it’s much cheaper. So, I’m pretty much sold on the Omnia.
Oh and another thing.
Samsung says ‘Omnia’ means ‘Everything’ in Latin and ‘Wish’ in Arabic. I think ‘OMNIA’ also means the following:
“OMnia Negates IPhone Always”