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Amazon To Step Into Work Mail, Calendar Segment Like Microsoft, Google

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Amazon is looking ahead to compete with Google and Microsoft in the workmail service. Currently the e-mail and calendar segment is dominated by Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Amazon is starting these two services for professionals. Its service is dubbed as WorkMail and the retail giant says it will compete with Google's Apps and Microsoft's Outlook for Work to make it daily point of contact with its customers. The service will be built by its technical team who handles the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing segment. With this service the retail giant will also be offering e file-storage service to its customers. This service is named as Zocalo. It is estimated the cloud-based email services market across the world was worth $6.3 billion in 2014 and by 2018 it will increas...

Twitter Adds Group Messaging, Native Video Features

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Twitter is looking ahead to attract more users and for this it has added two new features. The platform now offers group private messaging and native video too, which has been for long been in demand by users. The mobile video camera feature enables users to take up to 30 seconds of video natively from within the app and then include it in the tweet. With this now users don't need to upload a video on YouTube and then link it in the tweet. Also, no need to use vine for a six-second video. In the private group messaging feature users can send direct messages to a group and don't need to follow any one in the group of up to twenty people. To enable the group chat first sending invitation is required and those members are notified by Twitter. Once the group is created, sending pr...

Preventing Your Self from Being a Gmail Phishing Victim – Important Tips

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In the recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of people becoming victims of phishing e-mails on Gmail. The cybercriminals are on the rise and they are misusing the advancement in technology to carry out their phishing activities. They believe that the users Gmail log in information are a soft target and indulge in various scams. What is phishing exactly? Phishing is basically a fraudulent act that the hackers indulge in to deceive the internet users for obtaining their personal and/or confidential details like name, residential or office address, bank account details, credit card number, passwords and security pins. There are a large of people who deliberately indulge in such fraudulent activities; they disguise themselves as genuine people and scam the...