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This Monday marked the 15th anniversary of the birth of Hotmail. That July 4th launch date is no coincidence — the service’s founders intended its release to highlight the symbolism of its independence from more traditional e-mail models. The following year, the service would be snatched up by Microsoft and housed under the software giant’s MSN umbrella. The subsequent years haven’t always been easy for the brand, thanks in part to competition from Yahoo and Google-owned services. In 2007, the service fired back, revamping and rebranding itself as Windows Live Hotmail. It’s been a decade and a half of ups and downs, but the webmail service continues to be one of the most widely used in the world. Got any Hotmail-related memories? Please share them in the comments below.

Hotmail turns 15, checks spam folder for misfiled birthday wishes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s reportedly trying to put all of its product eggs into one self-branded basket. According to Mashable, two of its most popular services — Picasa and Blogger — may go under the branding knife and come out the other side looking like ‘Google Photos’ and ‘Google Blogs.’ With the exception of the latter’s planned UI overhaul, both services should function exactly the same. The move — alleged to take place within the next six weeks — would unify the search king’s user offerings ahead of the public launch of Google+. And if that social service’s rumored July 31st launch date pans out, we could be seeing this overhaul very soon. But don’t expect crown jewel YouTube to receive similar treatment, that site’s brand equity already sent its ugly step-sister — Google Video — to the grave.

Picasa, Blogger to get renamed: now with more Google? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Macworld put 2 and 2 together today to figure out that there are over 1 million iPhones that are unaccounted for from Apple’s numbers. Earlier Apple said that 3.7 million iPhones were sold in 2007 during the first 6 months it was available. AT&T on the other hand, said that they have a little under two million iPhone customers. Combining that with the estimated 400,000 iPhones in Europe leaves us with over a million that mysteriously disappeared into the abyss.

That abyss is the world of unlocking, where people modify devices they can be used on any network… and eBay is a seller’s haven for unlocked iPhones! I went through some of the completed auctions for unlocked iPhones, and there is one successfully being sold just about every 2 minutes. Sellers who ship internationally fetch upwards of $600 or $700 for an unlocked iPhone, which isn’t bad considering that the devices retail for just $400. That comes out to hundreds of these being sold everyday on eBay!

I actually expected the number of unlocked iPhones to be even higher because of all the people in foreign countries who want to use these on their own networks. It will be interesting to see whether this trend continues to rise, or if AT&T will still be getting a majority of the subscribers.

Thanks to Andrew for the tip!

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