Microsoft claims to have corrected the problem of "missing emails"

Microsoft said Monday night that corrected a problem in its Hotmail e-mail, which removed thousands of emails from users. Hundreds of people had complaints over the weekend disappearance of messages on the forums of the company. In some cases, messages were simply destroyed, in others they were transferred into the trash mail.

Microsoft claims to have been able to restore all the messages affected by the problem, which involved more than 17,000 users, according to the company. Microsoft claims to have identified the problem, related to a "load balancing between servers," without giving details. According to figures from the firm Comscore, Hotmail, the first courier in the world, has about 360 million users.

Chinese police adopt micromessages

More than 500 police stations in China have opened accounts on sites micromessages to improve the image of police as well as communications with the public, reports, Tuesday, Jan. 4, the official press. Last month, Meng, Minister of Public Security, had prompted the police to embrace the new social networks to open accounts and micro-blogging.

Even if the Chinese government blocking Twitter, the leading global service instant messaging, since it encourages officials recently microblogs to post on other similar systems in order to highlight the policies. Since 2009, reports the Beijing Review site, several important players in the Chinese Web, such as portal sina.

MySpace should significantly reduce its workforce

The social network MySpace, owned by News Corporation, is about to announce massive job cuts, says the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, Jan. 4. "Between a third and half of 1 100 employees" could be affected by the economic daily, also owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., citing unnamed sources. This restructuring could be announced as early as January.

No spokesman was available for comment MySpace sections of the Wall Street Journal. A year ago, the social networking site had already announced a reduction of its workforce by nearly 30% after the arrival of a new direction. Acquired in 2005 for $ 580 million, the social network is facing competition from Facebook.

Chrome continues to grow

A market share that has doubled in one year to reach 10%: the Google browser, Chrome, has grown steadily in 2010, according to year-end figures released by the consulting firm NetApplications. The growth was mainly made of Chrome at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer - which is clearly number one sector but has lost 4% market share in one year - but also Firefox, down 2% the same period.

The law antidescargas use Megaupload fires in France

What was announced is happening. French Internet users abandon the system P2P file sharing sites for download or direct viewing of content such as Megaupload. Hadopi law to punish protected file downloads surveillance focuses on P2P networks and this causes the migration of surfers to other formulas.

According to Le Figaro, in a year, Megaupload visits have grown by 35% in France and has 7.4 million users in this country. The authorities are aware of this phenomenon and have announced that they will examine what happens to eventually decide to follow up these sites. The president himself has admitted that the law needs some tweaks.