- MSN upgrades Hotmail
MSN Hotmail has undergone a major upgrade, delivering customers world class e-mail protection as well as enhanced storage to satisfy all their needs. MSN has rolled out free e-mail antivirus protection to all the 170 million hotmail customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms before they can enter a customer’s inbox. In addition, it provides several levels of enhanced filtering that enable customers to set the level of spam control for their e-mail. By setting spam filters to the exclusive level, customers will receive e-mail only from addresses appearing in their contacts, service announcements from Hotmail, and messages they have requested.
The storage has also been increased to 250 MB. Customers will receive 125 times their current e-mail storage with the introduction of 250 MB inboxes and have the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB. Upon upgrade, MSN Hotmail customers will also receive the MSN Calendar free, enabling both individual and shared calendaring. Also introduced is the MSN Hotmail Plus, an upgraded premium Web service to help customers get the most out of Hotmail. Hotmail Plus will provide customers with virtually infinite storage – 2GB of online storage and the ability to send 20 MB attachments, as well as additional offline storage limited only by the size of their computer hard drive.
- Linux centre opened in Singapore
Oracle and Red Hat have announced a significant development in their longstanding partnership with the launch of the Oracle-Red Hat Linux Enterprise Applications Porting (LEAP) centre in Singapore recently.
Establishing to improve the ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) in the Asia Pacific by delivering solutions on Linux, the LEAP centre is the first significant Linux initiative in Singapore, and the first joint Oracle Red Hat Linux solution centre in the world.
Set to become a hub for the region’s software industry to harness the potential of enterprise Linux, the Oracle Red Hat LEAP centre will assist ISVs and Sis to port, optimize and certify their solutions on Linux. By improving partners’ skills on Linux, and providing access to low-cost, high performance, secure, and reliable Oracle infrastructure software running on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, the LEAP centre will serve to increase the availability of third-party Linux applications for the enterprise, and accelerate adoption of enterprise Linux solutions in Asia Pacific.
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