Oh boy! Here we go again. Another senior government official has had his BlackBerry stolen by another foreign intelligence agency. But this time, it’s not an American official. According to the U.K.’s The Sunday Times a senior aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had his BlackBerry stolen by Chinese intelligence agents while on a trip to China.

Reader Stuart is having problems uninstalling Office. In this tip, we show you some quick resources you can use to force Office to completely remove itself from your system.

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigation arm of the United States Congress. This month, the GAO released a 74-page report entitled "National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management". After reading the report, we made three key observations. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has completely abdicated responsibility for investigating records management in the U.S. government, putting all U.S. government record-keeping at risk. The four agencies investigated by the GAO aren’t doing all that bad by government standards, but by corporate standards, oh boy! And, it wouldn’t be a new article with a new security risk, this time there’s a whopper at the Department of Homeland Security and another at the Federal Trade Commission.

No matter whether you’re going to do the fixing or finding, or call up a smart buddy, you’re going to have to know certain details about your Outlook configuration. Write these down, commit them to memory, or know how to find them. After all, on the day you lose all your email, it’d sure be nice to know how to get it back.

In this week’s ten-minute tip, we manage to provide you with an incredibly helpful tip and, somehow, also include mention of David Hasselhoff, cats, and a beverage. We’ve just got it that way.

In this all-new book review shootout, we put two books to the test. Read on to learn how BlackBerry Hacks by Dave Mabe, and BlackBerry For Dummies by Robert Kao and Dante Sarigumba stand up to our editorial review.

Just as our subscribers below are experiencing, Outlook reminders can become corrupted or unusable. There are various reasons that can cause this type of issue including a problem with reminders themselves, the Outlook profile, or a third party software just to name a few. In this article, we explore some fixes.

A few months ago, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz was invited to give the Saturday afternoon keynote address at the 31st Annual Independent Computer Consultants Association National Conference in Washington, D.C. With all the work he’d done on White House email, it seemed appropriate to address some of the nation’s leading computer consultants in the cradle of our democracy. This is his trip report

In Outlook 2007, Microsoft introduced the concept of To-Do’s. These are similar to, but distinct from Tasks, and have caused no end of confusion for people. If you’re one of the many people who is unsure about the difference between these two aspects of Outlook 2007, stick around. By the end of Bill Mann’s helpful article, we’ll have the confusion cleared up.

After the 9/11 disaster of 2001, the United States government took steps to protect American citizens and curb terrorism and terrorists in the country. One way was to enact the controversial USA Patriot Act. Like many laws, the Patriot Act has its detractors and supporters. But what exactly is the Patriot Act and, for the purposes of this article, how does it affect records management?