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Webmail has captured a sizable educational market nowadays. Schools and Universities incorporates services like e-mail and calendars to facilitate their faculty members and students. But there are number of web services that provides quality service and are successful in gaining public confidence. Microsoft’s Outlook, Yahoo’s Zimbra and Google’s Gmail are quality services that can be compared with each other and can challenge a tough competition to each other. Currently  Yahoo’s Zimbra is ruling as it has won a bid of Stanford University.

Yahoo!’s Zimbra is an open source, next generation messaging and collaboration software that has already gained some extra points over other web services due to its outstanding features. Stanford is another big addition in a long list of Zimbra’s victories.

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AT&T and Vizible are developing Pogo, a web browser which aims to use eye candy to increase productivity and change the way we look at the internet. And change it has, with a bit more complexity to everything we do like view history and add bookmarks. Even the tabs are called cells which makes it hard to understand for an average joe as to what a cell is and where are the tabs. To think of it, even Microsoft didn’t give a propriety name to tabs and just called it tabs in IE. Is that such a hard thing to do ?

We had gotten an invite some time ago and we’ve been using Pogo since then. We love the eye candy and we’re all game for using coverflow for history and bookmarks, but the collections feature isn’t really simple to use. And we don’t understand why it is there when we have bookmarks. The cells are placed in the bottom dock. And that is where any new tab you open is contained. You get a visual overview of all the tabs rather then the name in text which is useful for a quick glance, but the cells do not provide a real time view of the tab like the window previews in Windows Vista. This is something that would really prove useful rather then just a gimmick as the cells zoom in on some part of the page and show that as the cell thumbnail, which doesn’t make the quick glance, quick.

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We had recently reported the breakdown of Yahoo properties based on the detail and this week we viewed another report from Heather Hopkins at Hitwise Intelligence providing the breakdown of Google Properties. The recent upheavals faced by Google (both ways round) with the court asking or the IPs of the YouTube users to the launch of Lively, Google’s Virtual world have caused quite a stir in the Web-world.

The analytics performed break Google by listing up its 20 properties according to the market share of Internet visits in the US in June, 2008. The given data shows the percentage of visits to the concerned services provided by Google, including the Search, YouTube and Gmail.

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Tapulous is a new startup with a good stockpile of applications for Apple’s App Store. They have acquired some neat applications and a good team of developers who were already working on iPhone Apps before the SDK had launched. The Apps are going to be introduced through the App Store that is about to be launched, but they aim to create a social web between their Apps just like Rock you did with Facebook Apps.

Tapulous currently have 3 Apps ready to launch on with the launch of Apple App Store, with more coming soon. They include Twinkle ( based on Twitter ), Tap Tap Revenge ( sounds like Dance Dance Revolution doesn’t it? ) and a Friend Book which is a super address book, and incorporates “Handshake� which lets you hold two iPhones together and shake them to exchange contact information.

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Google has turned to be an excellent service in terms of the search result it returns. This has increased their traffic tremendously. Sighting their traffic, Hitwise, the Internet analysis firm, predicted earlier this year that the company might release a virtual world. They proved right as Google launched Lively this Tuesday. This makes you think that whats next in Google’s pipeline?

Some predictions made by Hitwise were that the company will be looking for something like ‘Google Autos’ or ‘Google Music’. According to Heather Hopkins of Hitwise:

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NewTeeVee has reported that the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on an encryption technology to protect the all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The name of the project is “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,�? or IPETEE for short. The Pirate Bay aims to provide encryption at the network level and not the application level, so that all data exchanged would be encrypted regardless of its nature.

The Pirate Bay have been in the news a lot for privacy concerns, specially highlighted by the fact that European politicians have been talking about moving to DMCA like copyright laws in Europe, which were authorized in the form of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive.

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BOSS! No we aren’t addressing your employer but Yahoo’s latest project launched Wednesday night that allows you to create your own customized search engine upon Internet Company’s technology. The service will be in its public beta testing. And the acronym stands for (Build Your Own Search Service). BOSS allows users to build your Website with a search box that lets you pass queries to it, processing results that are thrown in by Yahoo’s search engines and hola! The results are there on your screen.

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That’s right folks, the iPhone App store is being rumored to launch this Thursday! According to Forbes the online store will open at noon, Eastern Time, Thursday, to coincide with when the iPhone goes on sale in New Zealand. The App store is going to play a pivotal role for iPhone’s success in the future as it’ll coincide with the iPhone 2.0 software update which will also make it to the iPod Touch. This move will mark the beginning of the recognition of the iPhone and iPod Touch as general computing devices.

The smart moves that Apple has made with App Store are the 30% share of all the software sales revenue made via App Store ( that will be the only way to distribute your app too ) and the provision of iPhone 2.0 software to the first generation iPhone and iPhone Touch. Applications will be free as well, as shown by a survey done by Apple Insider at the WDDC, which showed that the average cost of an iPhone application will fall below $3.00 with 71%  of the developers aiming to publish their applications for free. Whereas, Steve Jobs told USA Today in an interview that the Apple App Store will launch with more then 500 applications on Thursday night, with 25% free applications and 90%( of those for sale ) will cost $9.99 or less.

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