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...Wrottesley, of course, believes they will, and he's already planning additional features to this beta version. He'll be adding New Bond Street to Near London early in 2010, and there are plans to recreate other London shopping zones, including Knightsbridge and Kensington. The site will also soon feature advertisements on billboards, buses and taxis, up-to-the-minute headlines on newsstands and even simulated weather that will mirror real-time conditions. Movie theaters, hotels, restaurants and bars could be part of the mix, too. Click on a theater, and you might watch trailers of what's on; visit...
Those of us who still live in a cave use the FAS Webmail application to check our e-mail may have noticed that we now have the option to try a brand spanking new interface. This "FAS Beta" is, we will admit, slightly spiffier and simpler, but apparently, its only purpose is to improve security while FAS IT performs a great e-mail migration over the next several months...
According to Noah S. Selsby '95, senior client technology adviser for FAS IT, FAS Beta is not a full-fledged new version of FAS Webmail, but rather a temporary upgrade while FAS IT moves student FAS accounts to Mail2World, the company behind the "@College" domain. Faculty and staff accounts will be migrating to Microsoft Exchange, a process he says is estimated to take eight months...
Meanwhile, FAS IT has included shiny new features for users to enjoy in FAS Beta during this transition period. Some of these include the removal of Webmail-based email filters (apparently works better now), better foreign language support (¡bueno!), an improved address book (better for stalking), and better support for attachments and HTML messages (make emails bigger and brighter...
Harvard’s 48 new Phi Beta Kappa members will be officially inducted in a private ceremony on Tuesday...