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Microsoft has revealed its ‘Mojave Experiment’ results. Last week Microsoft showed the demo of the experiment to those users who complained about Windows Vista. After the demo was show, they were told that its ‘Windows Vista’ and 90% of the users responded positively by liking it. Now the results of the experiment are made public by the Microsoft.

Microsoft flew to San Francisco where 120 users took part in the experiment. According to Chris Flores of Windows Vista Blog, following are some of the facts of the  research:

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Ifbyphone is a telephone application platform company. It is actually a web based tool which allows marketing campaign or businesses of small and medium size to set up a virtual call center with a very little cost per month and no direct cost. To get started for your company, all you need to do is to visit the website of the company.

The technology eliminates communication obstacle for all size of companies, allowing them to route calls that are coming into the company at anytime, anywhere. The Chicago based company is announcing the release of its ‘Ifbyphone Lead Distributor’ today.

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Electronics Arts, an Internet Game giant, has recently announced that its single player multi captivated online game Spore is going Gold. The game that is an outcome of the most talented and successful game designer Will Wright by Maxis was under development since last three years.

Spore has reshaped the massive web 2-ish games world. It allows users to create everything from a single cell into a multi-celled giant monster and you can keep on expanding your creativity by creating communities, civilizations and Space. It was officially out to few selected creative minds back on June 17. The team at Spore had also created a website named as ‘SporeVote’ to celebrate Maxis Spore Creature. With an aim of finding the most creative and innovative self created species,  it had picked around 75 ingenious and innovative users depicting a clearer idea of how to make your own Creature.

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MyYearbook, a high school social network has come ringing with an announcement of fetching $13 million series B funding round that was led by Norwest Venture Partners along with existing investors namely US Ventures Partners and First Round Capital. The total sum is predicted to reach $18.6 million as Sergio Monsalve joins the investors (As reported by Eric Eldon).

The company has made huge leaps in growth despite the bigger horses already well set in the business. According to analysis, MyYearbook currently holds about 1.54% of the total US social network market. Though way behind MySpace (71.92%) and Facebook (16.91%), MyYearbook stills boasts of being the third largest social network in the US and it shows a lot of promise already.

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MySpace after making quite some news with changes and its business reports has for us is plans at announcing new hires into its team. The present hiring tops out to be among the elites coming from various well known firms like Yahoo, MTV and LA Times.

MySpace had been up and about doing upgrades to its site lately along with partnering with OpenID and the most recent Classifieds by Oodle is turning up barrels to have a place in the spotlight. But does this present recruiting a bit odd form what is going on within MySpace?

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Google Maps have updated their layout and the new interface has now been more simplified. You can still access all the stuff  but this time its a bit easier. You can search a place with just a single search box. Prior to this release, Google Maps released their new feature ‘Walking Directions’.

The orange tabs which used to appear earlier, have now been removed, and more blue colour has been added in the interface.

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Twitter might have been considered to be a tool for those who enjoy keeping themselves updated on the whereabouts and doing of their friends everywhere but we saw Twitter come out shouting ‘I can be of other more important use’. This was highlighted when news about a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near LA.

Twitter was out spreading the news long before it was brought to light by major news services. The idea of spreading news about natural disasters immediately has always been there and surprisingly enough it came from the micro-messaging service that was lightening fast at scattering the information everywhere it has its reach.

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It hasn’t been long since the shut down of Scrabulous from Facebook, when its replacement, Scrabble reportedly gets hunt down by a ‘malicious attack’. The Scrabulousers might not have been hurt much when Scrabulous was taken away as they thought of having Scrabble to take its place but all they found was that the new one didn’t work.

The creators of the game for Hasbro; Electronic Arts wee quick to come out with a pretty amusing reason that al this is due to some invasion from a hacker; rendering the game unplayable for most of the hours after its launch (as reported by the LA Times). The company said:

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Since the release of iPhone, it has gained huge popularity which is evident from the increase in number of its apps. 20 to 40 new apps are coming out on daily basis. The product contained 500 applications when it was released, but now it has crossed the milestone of 1000.

977 apps were available till Sunday night, among which 25% were games. Games are proving to be a popular iPhone app as they are leading the paid app board carrying 53 of the top 100 places. Expensive apps have also started to  make their way in the App Store. Two MyAccountsToGo apps are running for $449.99, and another iChart EMR is charging $139.99, but you don’t have to worry about it because it is meant for certain people i.e. professionals, who can rely on these apps.

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