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Your contact list and calendar events on your mobile phone have nothing to do with the contacts and calendar items on your Outlook, even though most of them are the same. For instance, you store contact numbers in your phone and email info in Outlook’s contacts. Shouldn’t they both be connected? Shouldn’t the reminders/events you set on your phone, or the meetings you enter in your Outlook calendar be available at your desk and while you’re on the go?

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Apple released Safari 3.1 today, and has claimed that it is “the world’s fastest browser”.

“Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers…”

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I was reading a Fortune Magazine article on how Ray Ozzie is the vanguard of Microsoft’s new Internet Services strategy. It struck me that Microsoft realizes that we’re moving away from the desktop to the “webtop” paradigm, where your data resides in the “cloud” of the Internet, and that we’re moving towards fundamentally new services that leverage the power of the Web. In other words, MS seems to “get” the Internet of the future.

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