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Yahoo!'s Zimbra Desktop email and calendar software will be available through the Ubuntu partner repository.

Yahoo! subsidiary Zimbra has released beta 3 of Zimbra Desktop, its new email application designed to make it simpler to work with multiple web mail accounts, even when offline. The program also includes calendaring facilities.

Apple's rebranding of its .Mac Internet service to MobileMe is throwing users into disarray as the service has been offline for prolonged periods. Users find that some services still work while others aren't operational at all.

Yahoo! has bowed to pressure from its 266 million email customers fed up with not being able to get a Yahoo! email address that is close to their name: it has made two additional domain names available: ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

I still begrudgingly use Vista, even after making the mistake of retrograding my system to the monumental stuff-up called SP1. I still use Word and Excel 2007, although there are free alternatives that tempt me. However, I dropped Outlook months ago because it's an unacceptable resources drain. Can a new plug-in called Xobni change my mind?