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Microsoft has said a number of times before that it has a calendar upgrade for Outlook.com in the works. Today we’re finally seeing the Redmond based company reveal what exactly does this calendar update entail. Starting this week, the company will rolling out an updated version of Outlook.com calendar. A lot of the features have been improved. It has been entirely redesigned and optimizes ‘content over chrome’, which means that things of substance have are focused upon the most. For Outlook.com calendar, it means that appointments and events are entirely focused upon.

Users will now able to add events with a single click. Navigating around the calendar is easier and faster than ever before. Tasks can now be added without having to open a new page. Facebook, Skype, LinkedIn, birthdays, weather forecast and holidays can be integrated in to the calendar. The calendar is private by default but there are a host of sharing options available from the ‘Share’ menu in the header. Microsoft says that the updated Outlook.com calendar will be available across the world later this week. It can be accessed from http://calendar.live.com.

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Game of Thrones has a unique honor to its name. It became the most illegally downloaded TV show of 2012. According to latest numbers, it is not giving up that throne any time soon. Last night HBO aired the Game of Thrones Season 3 premier and in merely a day it has been downloaded over a million times. There have never been so many people sharing a file at the same time, with 160,000 simultaneous peers, its a new record. It broke the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever. Previously this record was held by the season premier of Heroes with 144,663 peers.

One of the main reasons behind this rampant piracy is the delay in airing for viewers outside the U.S. HBO has been working to plug these delays but adamant turn to piracy as they don’t want to miss out on the latest and greatest episodes. The data shows that Australia has the highest piracy rate, with a population of over 22 million. London was the city with the highest piracy rate followed by Paris and Sydney. The U.S. comes in at the top. We’ve got to ask, how did you watch the premier last night?!

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As soon as news broke out of Google Reader being shut down, the search began for viable alternatives. Feedly stood out among the rest, amassing over 500,000 new users in a matter of days. They’ve really been stepping up their game. Today Feedly updated its iOS and Android apps with a host of new features, which includes better search capabilities. The new search and discovery engine makes it easier to find feeds faster. Search bar now autocompletes typing, in a bid to make it easier for users to discover new sites that they might be interested in. The new search algorithm takes in to consideration user interaction, this would result in the feature getting better as time passes.

Users can now mark any item in their RSS feeds as a “Must Read” item. Such an item is then featured in Feedly’s Today section automatically, ensuring that users don’t miss out on what they’ve saved for reading at another time. The new Tile view affords an easy glance of the headlines. The sidebar now comes with the pull-to-refresh gesture baked in. Users can choose which sharing services get a shortcut in the sharing panel, support for sharing to Google+ has now been added. The new Feedly apps for iOS and Android can now be downloaded from iTunes App Store and Google Play Store respectively.

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One of YouTube’s co-founders teased he was close to launching a new video service, but was about a month away from its actual launch. What better day to launch an actual product, or in this place a video platform, than on the day where the Internet is running rampant with April Fools’ Day stories? We could think of 364 better days, but regardless of what we think, Chad Hurley decided today was the day to launch his new video platform, MixBit.

The announcement came as sort of an April Fools’ Joke as Hurley announced on his Twitter profile “Since YouTube is ending, we’re launching a new video site.” Of course, YouTube is far from closing its doors, but MixBit is actually a new video platform, although information regarding what it actually does and how it’ll attract the attention of online video watchers is to be seen. Instead of MixBit being a direct competitor to YouTube, the site would provide its users the “flexibility for people to work together and create content.” If that means more cat videos an anime music videos, then we’re all for it.

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We’ve heard of countries such as China who are heavily censoring the internet, and it seems that Russia has joined in as well. According to a report by The New York Times, the Russian government has recently begun enforcing a new law which was introduced in November 2012 in which they will “block Internet content that it deems illegal or harmful to children”. Now before you get up all riled up about another country censoring the internet, it seems that Russia’s way around it does make sense and isn’t as extreme where an entire country is denied access to a certain website.

For example in Russia’s case, what they are doing is that they are asking companies to selectively block certain postings, so that “contentious material can be removed without resorting to a countrywide ban on, for example, Facebook or YouTube, which would reflect poorly on Russia’s image abroad and anger Internet users at home.” Seems fair, doesn’t it? However we guess that there will be some argument about how the internet shouldn’t be censored, even if only affects a certain number of users, but we guess that will be a debate for another day.

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