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SBTUG – May 2010 BUSINESS &TECHNOLOGY NEWS Nicholas Rayner http://nicholasrayner.com/blog

SBTUG News 26 May 2010

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Page 1: SBTUG News 26 May 2010

SBTUG – May 2010

BUSINESS &TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Nicholas Raynerhttp://nicholasrayner.com/blog

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WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL FIGURES• 370 million active Hotmail users worldwide

• About 75 percent of Hotmail users--or over 275 million users--also use Messenger

• 350 million Office documents pass through Hotmail every month

• Over 15 billion Office documents are stored in Hotmail right now

• 1.5 billion photos are delivered through Hotmail every month

• New photo and Office document sharing limits in the new Hotmail: 10 GB of photos or documents per email message, up to 200 photos/documents, each up to 50 MB in size

• Exchange ActiveSync compatibility is available on roughly 300 million phones worldwide

• 80 percent of mail reported as "spam" is not spam but is instead "junk mail" or "gray mail"

• 50 percent of the typical email inbox is unwanted mail of some kind (spam or junk mail)

• Almost 90 percent of all web mail traffic online is spam

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OTHER NEWS• Google Wave officially open

• Google TV announcement

• Google PacMan forver!

• Free access to Facebook from a mobile device

• http://0.facebook.com *

• TEGA Tablet launched at CeBit Australia

• Amazon Kindle update begins

• Google AppEngine for Business

• Foxtel & Xbox Live

• w00t!

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