Iran Limited GMail, Yahoo, and Hotmail Usage

Iran's Telecommunications Ministry began to restrict the use of electronic messages (email) from foreign service in corporate banking, insurance, and mobile operators. The government wants the company to use Iran's Mail, a local email service that have addresses domains ending with .ir (dot IR).

Not only employees, restrictions on the use of foreign mail applies to the customers of the company engaged in three industry sectors. Government agencies and universities must also use the email address from domain .ir.

The Iranian government is not directly banned GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail. Reported by the AFP on Tuesday (5/15/2012), this step is part of government efforts to secure and monitor the communications of their citizens, by cutting off internet connection to foreigners and global email service providers.

In contrast with Google, Bing will capture Social Network Website Content

Microsoft is revamping their search engine system. Microsoft will reform Bing in order to capture content from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others. Bing step of course in contrast with Google that since the beginning of 2012 decided to stop to capture social networking content.

In demonstration that conducted by Microsoft on Thursday (5/10/2012), search activity at Bing will be divided into three columns, Core Web Results, Snapshot, and Sidebar. This three column is scheduled to be released in late May 2012.

On the left side, there is Core Results Web. This will show several website according to keywords. There is no difference with previous Bing search. Since this is main search engine, then it is greatest portion in search results than others.

Microsoft Will Sell Bing to Facebook?

Facebook is aggressively buying patent, after Instagram and AOL patent , Facebook reportedly being persuade to buy Bing search engine from Microsoft. As quoted from Cnet, said there are some people in  Microsoft is trying to explore that possibility. However this is without the agreement of CEO Steve Ballmer.

This news was published at New York Times. The reason why this step must be done is to compete Google that so dominate recent years. So, it need a company that focus more on the internet. Facebook which has good relationship with Microsoft is considered as strong candidate to buy Bing.

But according to New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the plan. Facebook still wants to concentrate on its core business.