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Gmail More and More Like Late '90s-Era Hotmail Every Day

John Paczkowski in News on September 24, 2009 at 8:38 am PT

So much for those Gmail-reliability improvements Google promised us earlier this month. The service, which was felled by a major outage just three weeks ago, is once again suffering from accessibility issues. It’s not yet clear what, exactly, is amiss. Some users say they can’t access contacts and chat. Others can’t get into the service at all.

Gmail More and More Like Late ’90s-Era Hotmail Every Day

John Paczkowski in News on September 24, 2009 at 8:38 am PT

So much for those Gmail-reliability improvements Google promised us earlier this month. The service, which was felled by a major outage just three weeks ago, is once again suffering from accessibility issues. It’s not yet clear what, exactly, is amiss. Some users say they can’t access contacts and chat. Others can’t get into the service at all.

TiVo to DISH: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

It’s not the $974.5 million TiVo had been looking for, but the $200 million in sanctions against EchoStar’s Dish Network the company has been awarded isn’t exactly petty cash, either. On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the satellite broadcaster to cough up that sum for its continued infringement of TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system” patent.

TiVo to DISH: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

John Paczkowski in News on September 4, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

It’s not the $974.5 million TiVo had been looking for, but the $200 million in sanctions against EchoStar’s Dish Network the company has been awarded isn’t exactly petty cash, either. On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the satellite broadcaster to cough up that sum for its continued infringement of TiVo’s “multimedia time warping system” patent.

Using Publisher Documents on a Mac

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 18, 2009 at 2:52 pm PT

Walt’s advice on working with Microsoft Publisher documents on a Mac, improving searches with Surf Canyon (even the beta version) and using a smartphone as a modem.

Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 13, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt reviews Linux’s relatively slick Ubuntu variation and finds the alternative operating system too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users. (Video)