Daily Archives: March 9, 2011

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Google Announces Gmail Smart Labels

Google is starting a public test of a new Gmail feature called Smart Labels

When it’s on, Smart Labels creates three labels called Bulk, Forums and Notifications.

Once you turn it on from the Labs tab in Settings, Smart Labels automatically categorizes incoming Bulk, Notification and Forum messages, and labels them as such. “Bulk” mail includes any kind of mass mailing (such as newsletters and promotional email) and gets filtered out of your inbox by default (where you can easily read it later), “Notifications” are messages sent to you directly (like account statements and receipts), and email from group mailing lists gets labeled as “Forums.”

More info: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-in-gmail-labs-smart-labels.html

Internet Explorer 9 Launch March 14

Microsoft will launch IE9 on March 14th, at SXSW (South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals) in Austin, Texas, according to comments from Ryan Gavin, senior director of Internet Explorer business.

“Exactly twelve months from the first platform preview of IE9, on Monday 14 March we will celebrate the developers and designers who are making a more beautiful web for all of us. We will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 for download beginning at 9 p.m. Pacific time.”

Microsoft released a public beta of IE9 last September, and followed that with a “release candidate,” (RC) a month ago.

Internet Explorer 9 features:

New Tab page

Notification Bar

One Box

Pinned Sites

Tab enhancements

Web-focused browsing

Windows 7 integration

Trusted
ActiveX Filtering

Add-on Performance Advisor

Compatibility View

Cross-site scripting filter

Domain highlighting

Download Manager

InPrivate Browsing

SmartScreen Filter

Tab isolation and recovery

Tracking Protection

CloudSight Search Searchable Archive Solution for Social Media and Google Apps Announced

Backupify has announced the private beta launch of CloudSight Search, the industry’s first unified search and archiving service for cloud computing. CloudSight Search enables Backupify users to quickly locate data across multiple cloud services and to analyze, download and restore items to their original location. The service supports Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, and other popular services managed by Backupify. Access to the CloudSight Search private beta program is limited. For more information and to request access to the beta program, visit http://www.cloudsight.com.

“Emerging social search engines are exciting but limited in that they only let you locate information – not restore it if it was deleted or view it if your cloud service is unavailable”

“Emerging social search engines are exciting but limited in that they only let you locate information – not restore it if it was deleted or view it if your cloud service is unavailable,” said Rob May, Co-Founder and CEO, Backupify. “CloudSight Search from Backupify is the first service of its kind that gives you the ability to not only find information across the social sphere, but also interact with, and restore it when necessary.”

Currently in beta, CloudSight Search will be available to Backupify users and will be active once their initial backups occur. The service provides an intuitive search interface for locating data across all services and filtering results based on keyword, by date, and by service type. CloudSight Search spans all cloud services to give users quick access to the information they’re looking for, whether it is stored in a Gmail message, in a Flickr photo comment or on a Facebook Fan Page. Resulting items are displayed, by priority, in real time, allowing the user to view, download or restore them to their original location.

For businesses, CloudSight Search offers powerful data management capabilities that solve critical problems encountered by the increasing amount of corporate data moving to the cloud. The service gives social media and compliance professionals an automated audit trail of customer-facing corporate online communications across all major social media and cloud platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Gmail. Also, Google Apps domain administrators can use CloudSight Search to query the archives of all their users. In the case data was deleted, CloudSight Search can make it even easier for the IT professional to restore the document on behalf of a Google Apps user.

For consumers, CloudSight Search provides a comprehensive view of one’s online life, making it easy to locate pictures, online conversations with friends, documents and more, across any number of photo-sharing sites, Web-based email accounts and social media sites.

For more information, including a video and signup form for the CloudSight Search private beta program, visit http://www.cloudsight.com

CloudSight Search will be available for demonstration at the SXSW Interactive conference starting Friday, March 11, in Austin, TX. Users that sign up for Backupify CloudSight Search with the promo code “#SXSW” will be given priority access to the service as it is made available to beta users. To celebrate the launch of its groundbreaking unified search service, Backupify will be cosponsoring, alongside HubSpot and oneforty, the “Boston in Austin” cocktail hour at 5:00PM on March 13, 2011. For more information, visit http://bostoninaustinsxsw.eventbrite.com

Google Releases Stable Version Of Chrome 10

Google has announced the arrival of it’s Chrome browser 10.0.648.127 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

Version 10 addresses 23 security vulnerabilities.

Chrome 10 features improvements including:
New version of V8 – Crankshaft – which greatly improves javascript performance

New settings pages that open in a tab, rather than a dialog box
Improved security with malware reporting and disabling outdated plugins by default

Sandboxed Adobe Flash on Windows

Password sync as part of Chrome Sync now enabled by default
GPU Accelerated Video

Background WebApps

webNavigation extension API

More info: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/chrome-stable-release.html