Tag: MSN

With more and more applications moving to the Internet, it's getting easier and easier for one shady developer to rip off the work of another. Often, you can easily see the source code (the behind-the scenes plumbing that makes it all happen) of a given site and then copy it for your own with just a few clicks. Change a few images and, presto, you've got your own app. That's apparently what MSN ...

MSN, Microsoft's news and search portal, has remained largely unchanged over the last decade. The familiar butterfly logo, blue background, and oppressive quantities of links have gotten only minor tweaks since 2001 -- a different shade of blue, more links, more photos. But now, Microsoft is prepped to unveil a drastic redesign of its flagship portal, reducing clutter and ditching the "Microsoft ...

It's never fun to be on the wrong end of a hack. But often, we can use them as learning experiences So, what did we learn when around 10,000 Hotmail, MSN, and Live.com account passwords were revealed on PasteBin last weekend? Either people are lazy or our memories have withered away to nothing in this digital age. According to Wired, the most common password on the list was "123456." That's right, ...

A new report from Fudzilla claims that Microsoft is getting ready to lay off 15,000 employees, or about 17-percent of its worldwide staff. The axe will apparently fall on January 15th, exactly one week before its second quarter earnings report, and they expect MSN division to be hit hardest, while the successful Xbox crew will probably make it out relatively unscathed. Meanwhile, an anonymous ...

There is one sure fire way to make the normally quiet and geeky Bill Gates a little peeved -- question his company's record of "capitalizing on the innovation of others." According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop, that's exactly what a blogger, Jonathan Snook, did at a small meeting between the online-citizen journalists of the tech world and the founder/honcho of Microsoft at ...

While Web-based mail sites like Gmail and Hotmail make it easy to access your messages from anywhere -- even mobile devices -- instant messaging on the go isn't always so easy. Web-based solutions like Meebo have sprouted up to allow you to use several IM clients from almost any computer without having to download software. But point your mobile phone's browser to Meebo's site, and you'll find ...