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Yahoo Ends Work From Home Program

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently ended the companies work-from-home program requiring all employees to work in the office or leave the company. Hundreds of employees are to be affected when the program ends. The news has caused an uproar across the business world from plenty of work from home employees who don’t see their status as being less productive but more productive.

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Microsoft’s Outlook.com Replaces Hotmail

Overnight the software giant Microsoft began to convert all of its Hotmail online email clients to their new Outlook.com online email system. The new Outlook.com was being brought out of beta/preview and all current Hotmail users will now have access to the new system. Six months ago the product was offered on a limited basis. By the end of the summer all users should be converted and Hotmail will no longer exist. At the current time 60 million users are using the new Interface. A reported 360 million users have Hotmail accounts. Those users will be able to keep their current email addresses even after they begin using the new system.

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Roku And Apple TV

For decades, most consumers have only had a limited number of entertainment options - you could watch cable or satellite television, or you could watch movies on your VCR or DVD player.  However, with the rapid growth of streaming media options online, consumers have a nearly unlimited opportunity to get the movies and TV shows they want with out the bulky equipment or high prices of the past.

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Jailbreaking An IO6 Device

This article explains how to jailbreak io6 device, including the iPhone 5.

Finally, there is a jailbreak process released for iOS6 and above, making this the first jailbreak iPhone 5.

If you have waiting impatiently to jailbreak your device that runs iOS 6 or above, including your iPhone 5, this is your lucky day. Just today, a revolutionary new tool known as evasiOn was introduced.

This is very easy to use-much easier than the iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak I wrote about last year. This one is much quicker and only has a few steps to it. If you are at home with a computer, you can click a few buttons and tap an icon on your iOS phone, you are over qualified to operate evasiOn.

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Microsoft Office 365

February 27 sees the introduction of the new business version of Office. Office 365 was recently released, with users paying an affordable $8 for a monthly subscription.

The Home Premium version of Office 365 comes with several useful features and accessories, including 60 minutes of worldwide phone calls through Skype, and the use of Publisher, Access, Excel, Word and Outlook. Subscribers also enjoy 20GB of cloud storage in SkyDrive for the yearly subscription of $99.99.

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Kim Dotcom's New Site Mega

It appears that this pirate of the Internet has created some cloud storage space that permits limited user sharing.

Kim Dotcom has been at the center of a bitter legal battle because it appears that the cloud storage and file sharing company Mega is back in business. But Kim says that Mega is all above board. Mega is Kim Dotcoms brainchild and the file sharing site was launched in New Zealand on Jan 20th. Mega users are allowed to upload fifty gigs and share their files with other cloud users, but the file sharing is limited. If the Mega user wants a premium membership then they need to sign up.

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Research in Motion LTD. is forming a relationship with 150 carriers in hopes of avoiding the fate that befell Palm Inc. This after RIM's BlackBerry 10 was compared to Palm's doomed WebOS. While Palm originally received great reviews it fizzled soon afterwards. However, unlike Palm's single carrier debut, Research in Motion has wider carrier distribution.

RIM has rebuilt its latest operating system in hopes of competing with Apple's iPhone. They've received positive reviews for this. In fact, it caused their stock to go up 80% since late September. Since then analysts have gone on to suggest that there's too much optimism surrounding the pre-release of the BlackBerry 10.

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Microsoft CEO At CES

At the most recent Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had originally declined to give a keynote speech but still took some time on stage to report on the company's latest developments. His decision indicates that the tech giant is not falling behind the competition or giving up the main spotlight to competitors. Instead, Ballmer's strategic move shows that Microsoft is still a major contender in product innovation, and consumers can look forward to these developments in the near future.

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Employment Laws And Facebook

California and Illinois are leaders in protecting your social media privacy from potential employers by banning employers from asking for Facebook passwords. Social media access gives employers a peek at how you spend your time outside of the office, and use the information in the screening process of new employee candidates.

California and Illinois lawmakers have passed a law prohibiting employers from asking for social networking passwords from their current employees and those seeking jobs with the business.  This new hiring protocol within the business world emerged when social media became popular with today's internet culture. Businesses found they can research a person's personality, morals, and ethics with a simply click of a mouse.

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TOS Lands Instagram In Court

Instagram is not pleased with what Santa left under the tree: a lawsuit. To be more specific, Instagram is now involved in a class action lawsuit after it changed its terms of service, a move that customers are none too happy about. According to Reuters, the suit was started by a California user who is claiming that Instagram breached its contract by changing its service term. Instagram, owned by Facebook, responded by denying any wrong-doing and vowing to fight the suit.