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Important notice: Google Apps browser support ! NO MORE IE6 Support!

Here’s the Exact Email :

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Dear Google Apps admin,​

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
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Google Paying for finding Bugs in Chrome ! Woot ! Woot ! upto $1377 !!!

[from Google]

In designing Chromium, we’ve been working hard to make the browser as secure as possible. We’ve made strong improvements with the integrated sandboxing and our up-to-date user base. We’re always looking to stay on top of the latest browser security features. We’ve also worked closely with the broader security community to get independent scrutiny and to quickly fix bugs that have been reported.

Some of the most interesting security bugs we’ve fixed have been reported by researchers external to the Chromium project. For example, this same origin policy bypass from Isaac Dawson or this v8 engine bug found by the Mozilla Security Team. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of these people and others, Chromium security is stronger and our users are safer.

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Facebook Memorial ! Reconnect with the Dead !

Facebook is giving users a way to stay in touch with the dearly departed with its Facebook Reconnect service, which is now touted as a way to memorialize the deceased.In addition to its recently implemented News Feed and Live Feed formats on its homepage, the social networking giant released a Reconnect tool, which offers a service designed to “reconnect” members with old friends and contacts if they haven’t communicated in a while.

The Reconnect feature is an extension of the site’s Suggestion service, which appears on the right hand side of the page, reminding users to get in touch with contacts possibly needing help on Facebook.

However, there still might be some bugs that have to be ironed out in Facebook’s “Reconnect.” The new tool took reconnecting to a whole new level when it offered users a way to stay in touch with exes, current spouses and deceased Facebook contacts with existing profile pages.

Meanwhile, Facebook maintains that the option to use Reconnect to stay in touch with dead people was deliberate. The social networking giant maintained in a company blog post that members could use the Reconnect feature to memorialize loved ones whose profiles remained intact by posting remembrances on their Wall.

“We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it’s important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized,” said Max Kelly, Facebook chief security officer.

Kelly used a personal example of a good friend who was killed in a bicycle accident to illustrate the necessity for memorializing user’s profiles on Facebook.

“As time passes, the sting of losing someone you care about also fades but it never goes away. I still visit my friend’s memorialized profile to remember the good times we had and share them with our mutual friends,” he said.

Kelly said that the profiles of the deceased no longer appear in the Suggestions box once family members decide to memorialize their profile, and also mentioned that the site would remove sensitive information, and prevents users from logging into it in the future, while enabling family and friends to post on the user’s Wall in remembrance.

The blog post elicited numerous comments, some critical, others in praise, of Facebook’s effort to reconnect family and friends with their deceased loved ones.

However, one Facebook user asked an obvious question. “There are 540 comments so far—I’ve not read all of them to see if it has been asked yet, but I don’t understand why everyone isn’t asking this,” said Don Orkoskey. “What if the person isn’t really dead? What if a friend (or non-friend) is playing a sick joke?”