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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Some Hotmail users report missing e-mails (AP) : Technet

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Some Hotmail users report missing e-mails (AP) : Technet

Some Hotmail users report missing e-mails (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 02:56 PM PST

– Sat Jan 1, 5:56 pm ET

NEW YORK – Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft's online forum that all of their messages have disappeared.

"Please help me get them back," wrote one user under the moniker 'Zacgore' in a post dated Saturday. "All my kids' info and pictures are in there!"

Others complain that the majority of the e-mail in their inboxes was sent to their deleted mail folders instead. It is unclear from the posts how widespread the problem is. The free Web-based e-mail service is the world's most used with about 360 million users globally, according to comScore Inc.

Windows Live support technicians have said in numerous threads that the Hotmail team is aware of the problem and working on a fix.

"At this point it appears to be a limited issue, and Microsoft is working with individual users who are impacted. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers," Microsoft spokeswoman Catherine Brooker said in statement Saturday. She declined to disclose what caused the glitch.

Microsoft's forum contains 476 pages of complaints about lost and deleted e-mails that date back to early November.

Don't Depend on iPhone Clock's Alarm Tomorrow [UPDATED] (Mashable)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:56 AM PST

Charlie White Charlie White – Sat Jan 1, 12:56 pm ET

Many of us like to use the iPhone as an alarm clock, but if you're thinking about setting a one-off alarm to wake you up tomorrow morning (January 2, 2011), don't do it.

Twitter was abuzz with complaints and comments about the iPhone bug that failed to wake up those who depended on it this morning, so we wanted to be sure you knew about the problem so you wouldn't make the same mistake when setting your alarm tonight.

UPDATE: There's a workaround: If you still want to use the iPhone clock as an alarm for tomorrow, set a recurring alarm and it'll work normally, Apple told Engadget (see quote below).

The good news? You won't need to fiddle with this forever, because the iPhone bug will somehow right itself as soon as the calendar changes over to January 3, 2011. Even so, this was a rude awakening for New Year's Day. Come on Apple, fix this bug.

Meanwhile, might I suggest an alternative alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, Best Alarm Clock, the trusty $.99 app that wasn't affected by this bug. It lets you choose to wake up to a variety of sounds, iPod music, or my favorite, a single vibration. While I could do without most of its garish colors and accompanying sound effects with each tap of an icon, it has other virtues, such as helpfully displaying a current weather report. I especially like the way you can program different times for each day of the week, great for those of us with flexible schedules:

Don't like that one? Here are five other choices.

UPDATE: Engadget got the following response from Apple:

"We're aware of an issue related to non repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2. Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning January 3."

Japan's DoCoMo new tablet aims to take on iPad (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 08:58 AM PST

– Sat Jan 1, 11:58 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo is to launch a tablet computer running Google software to challenge Apple's hot-selling iPad, a report said Saturday.

DoCoMo will marry the new Google-backed Android operating system with a device made by South Korea's LG Electronics to launch the product in Japan by the end of March, the Nikkei business daily said, without naming sources.

Users will be able to get on the Internet via DoCoMo's cellular connections, it said, adding pricing and other details were yet to be decided.

Google is expected to release a tablet-friendly operating system worldwide in early this year.

HOW TO: Land a Job at Twitter (Mashable)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:45 AM PST

Lauren Indvik Lauren Indvik – Sat Jan 1, 2:45 pm ET

Microblogging service Twitter is on a hiring spree, having raised $100 million in September 2009 and another $200 million earlier this month.

Between that period, Twitter roughly tripled its employee base to more than 300 and disclosed plans to "have a small number of people on the ground in Europe in 2011," a spokesperson said recently.

We've received inquiries from a number of you about how to land a job at the San Francisco-based startup and what it's like to work there. We've compiled your most frequently asked questions here, including information about what kinds of jobs are available at Twitter, what the company culture is like, as well as a few tips about getting hired.

If you have interviewed for a position or worked at Twitter, we'd love to hear about your experiences and advice in the comments below.

What Kinds of Jobs Are Available at Twitter?

There are many different departments at Twitter, thus many different kinds of positions and skill sets are needed for each. Twitter is currently filling out its business development and sales, engineering, finance, HR, legal, mobile, operations, product management, support and user experience and design teams. Other (seemingly non-hiring) departments include executive (management) and communications.

What Is It Like to Work There?

Twitter is very vocal about the quality of its corporate culture -- and so are its employees. If you've ever followed a new Twitter employee during his or her first day on the job, he or she likely finished that day by tweeting that it was the "best first day of work ever," or something similar.

And if you've ever asked an employee what they like best about working at Twitter, they'll likely tell you about how most employees stick around on Friday evenings to spend time with their colleagues, listening to the company's leaders talk about ideas developed in the past week over drinks and snacks.

Others have observed that it's a "creatively stimulating," place to work, filled with lots of natural light, whiteboards and meeting spaces. Employees are "buzzing with ideas" and "constantly brainstorming." Because Twitter is rapidly expanding, parts of the office are frequently under construction -- one recent visitor noted that although the space is well-designed, Twitter already needs more of it. An added bonus: breakfast and lunch are free.

Any Advice on Getting Hired?

As Twitter Director of Communications Matt Graves explains, "There's no one set of skills or experience we're looking for -- it really depends on the position. But we do look for certain traits: hard workers, smart thinkers and respectful team players. Having a great sense of humor is a (big) plus; I've never worked with so many funny people in my life."

Don't forget to include your @username on your resume. "Seems obvious, but people forget!" he says.

For more information, check out Working at Twitter, and follow @jointheflock on Twitter. Those interested in university recruiting and other campus-related topics can direct inquiries to @TwitterU.

Social Media Job Listings

Every week we put out a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we post a huge range of job listings, we've selected some of the top social media opportunities from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!

More Job Search Resources from Mashable:

- 19 Resources to Help You Land a Job in 2011
- 6 Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter
- HOW TO: Land a Job at Microsoft
- HOW TO: Land a Business Development Job
- 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube

Image courtesy of Flickr, @Twitter

95+ Predictions for the Web in 2011 (Mashable)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 07:48 AM PST

Josh Catone Josh Catone – Sat Jan 1, 10:48 am ET

2010 was a busy year for social media and the web. It began (more or less) with the launch of the Apple's genre-defining iPad tablet and culminated with the ascent of Facebook as the web's most visited site. In between we had the fall of Palm, the rise of Android, the surprise of Groupon and the success of the Facebook movie. There was more, too, from fun new gadgets to embarrassing downtime (at a startup not called Twitter).

If all that was packed into the final year of the last decade, what's coming our way as the calendar flips to the next?

For the past two weeks, editors and contributing writers at Mashable have been gazing into our crystal balls to try to discern what's coming in the next year. Below is a roundup of all of our predictions posts for 2011, covering over 90 topical predictions for what's in store for the web and social media in the coming year.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, sparkia

NTT DoCoMo to launch tablet computer: Nikkei (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:44 PM PST

– Sat Jan 1, 12:44 am ET

TOKYO, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Japan's top mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, is looking to launch a tablet computer that will be produced by LG Electronics and run on software developed by Google, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.

The device, which is scheduled to be released in Japan by the end of March, is expected to have a smaller than 9-inch screen, but other details have yet to be determined, the newspaper said without identifying the source of its information.

DoCoMo officials were not immediately able to comment on the report.

The tablet PC would compete with a slew of models from the likes of Dell, Samsung Electronics and Sharp to challenge Apple's iPad in the new gadget segment.

(Reporting by James Topham in TOKYO and the Bangalore Equities Newsroom)
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