Microsoft To Introduce Web-Based Outlook; Brian Hall Comments
Microsoft Corp. will introduce a free and web-based email portal under the Outlook brand, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft’s Windows group general manager Brian Hall said Hotmail will likely be phased out in the next year. The web-based Outlook service will feature sorting of emails according to contacts, social media updates and newsletters. Hotmail users also have the [...]
Skype will become a business unit of Microsoft Corp. after the board of directors of each company agreed on the terms of an $8.5 billion acquisition. Microsoft said the move will accelerate the companies’ efforts to transform real-time communications for consumers and enterprise customers. In the long term, Microsft will integrate Skype into many of its products “to broaden [...]
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The European Union approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of online phone company Skype. The EU’s approval is thought to be the final hurdle in finalizing the deal. There had been opposition to the acquisition from competitors of Skype, who argued the communication company’s 145 million active users combined with Microsoft’s market heft would lead to an unfair [...]
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Nokia has suspended its developer forum website after it discovered a recent attack that resulted in members’ data being compromised. The database tapped by hackers included member e-mail addresses and, in some cases, personally identifiable information such as birthdates, homepage URLs and screen names from messaging services such as AIM, Skype and Yahoo. Before the [...]
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A Russian self-proclaimed “freelance researcher” claims to have reverse-engineered part of Skype’s code to make the program an open source and then released the code online, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The hacker, Efim Bushmanov, said in addition to making Skype open source, he wants to find “friends who can spend many hours” to finish [...]
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A group of crytoanalysts have published what they claim is the Skype encryption algorithm. The group, led by Sean O’Neil, claim to have successfully reverse engineered the RC4 cipher, an encryption technology used by Skype. The encryption technology is used by Skype to protect communications between clients and the company’s servers. Nevertheless, even if the [...]
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