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Apple just got in touch with us regarding the removal of the YouTube app in the latest beta of iOS 6, and while it wouldn’t say much, it did confirm the obvious: it’s not there for a reason. The licensing deal it had with Google “has ended, but users can still use YouTube via the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120801_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Hotmail may become cool again and no, we haven’t gone back to 1999.  Microsoft has unveiled Outlook.com, a new email service that will eventually be the home of all current Hotmail users. The product was clearly designed to compete with Gmail, with a simple, easy to use Continue Reading →

Google’s Gmail app for iOS has been docked by some potential adopters for feeling like a poor cousin to other native apps. It may be worth revisiting: the 1.3 update has just arrived with a much-requested ability to save common image attachments to an iOS device’s photo collection. Should that not be enough, Google has Continue Reading →

Today Microsoft has unveiled Outlook.com, a new email product from the company that will eventually be the home of the hundreds of millions of Hotmail users. TNW has extensively tested the product. It’s our view that Outlook.com is a well-designed webmail product that has the potential to reverse Microsoft’s lengthy slide in the product category Continue Reading →

Attachments.me is one of my favorite services, as it really does a great job of wrangling all of those attachments in my various Gmail accounts. Today, the service announced Dropbox, Box and Google Drive integration, which allows you to email someone a huge file without having to leave Gmail. With the Attachments.me plugin, all of Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Steve Lacy and Tai Hernandez on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about changes to Facebook, Gmail and Twitter. Continue Reading →

Google’s been adding a lot of features lately to get us to Hangout, from providing digital moustaches to scheduling virtual soirees. Now, the company’s aiming to get folks video conferencing from their inbox. That’s right, you can now start a Hangout with up to nine friends or colleagues straight from Gmail with a click of Continue Reading →

Singapore-headquartered Insync has rolled out a very useful new service for those who spend a lot of time grabbing documents from Gmail or Google-hosted email. Launched today, Insync for Gmail is a super simple way of managing attachments by storing them in Google Drive and Dropbox. It’s been six months since we last caught up Continue Reading →

Typing out an e-mail will never require actual typing—or even mouse-clicking—again, if the maker of the popular Dragon speech recognition software has its way. The software has long allowed users to dictate e-mails or any other document by voice, but a new version set for release next month brings special integrations into Gmail and Hotmail. Continue Reading →

Anyone wondering why they don’t see many friends or contacts online via Google Talk’s instant messaging list, rest assure that it isn’t due to zombie uprising. The Google Talk service has been down for the majority of users this morning, including a portion of the VentureBeat staffers. Some users are able to sign in, but Continue Reading →