SkyDrive adds Live Tiles notifications

Looks like the folks at Microsoft might be learning how to write apps for their own operating system, finally. Today, in a post on the Inside SkyDrive blog, Mike Torres announced that the SkyDrive apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT, released back in October, are adding Live Tile functionality: Starting…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

Internet messaging may surpass SMS by 2016

Some 20 years after it was invented, SMS (text) messaging may be giving way to Internet-based (Net) wireless messaging such as Skype, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. A report on TechHive.com cited a Tyntec/GigaOm study showing that by 2016, there may be more Net than SMS messages – about 16 trillion Net…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

Rachel del Valle

Last night, I was picking through the junk drawer that is my Hotmail inbox. I do this every time I remember that I have a Hotmail account. This is about four times a year. Sandwiched between a sale offer from Anthropologie and a Turner Classic Movies newsletter was a note…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

Penn College Offers Noncredit Microsoft Computer Courses

Anonymous The Daily Item The Daily Item Wed Jan 23, 2013, 02:24 PM EST WILLIAMSPORT For those looking to sharpen their computer skills while learning something new, Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering some easy-to-learn computer courses. The Microsoft Office courses are taught by qualified instructors at…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

Freedom for ‘locked-in’ Kingsbridge teen thanks to special car

A teenager who is trapped in his own body and unable to speak or move has attracted support from his South Devon community which has raised funds to help him cope with his condition. Howard Wicks suffered a devastating brain stem stroke in October 2011 when he was 16, leaving Kingsbridge fundraisers…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

AP PHOTOS: A look at jobs replaced by technology

Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. Worse, those jobs weren’t just lost to China and other developing countries. No one got them. They vanished, victims of increasingly sophisticated software…

Posted on: January 24, 2013 9:00 am

US realty sector booms in 2012 after four years

Builders broke ground on houses at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 954’000 WASHINGTON: US builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace since the summer of 2008 and finished 2012 as their best year for residential construction since the early stages of the housing crisis. The Commerce Department…

Posted on: January 23, 2013 7:00 pm

12 Ways to Get Banned From Gmail

Just how bad do you have to be to get banned from Gmail? How many policies and terms do you have to violate to warrant suspension, or worse, Google termination? Google has discretion on the site, with the sole power to warn, suspend or terminate those in violation of its…

Posted on: January 23, 2013 7:00 pm

My Five Big New Year’s Resolutions for SharePoint Managers

With the working year now kicking off it’s a perfect time for SharePoint business managers and administrators to make their New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re looking after an intranet, collaboration portal, website, DMS, BI portal or all of these here’s a few ideas to help you with the process of…

Posted on: January 23, 2013 2:00 pm

Off-duty 911 operator Coryse Hercules used text messaging to alert police that …

If you see something but can’t say something because the bad guy’s near, there’s always text messaging. Off-duty 911 operator Coryse Hercules could not make an emergency call Tuesday when she spotted a man carrying a gun on a Staten Island bus, so she got creative and texted a co-worker Hercules,…

Posted on: January 23, 2013 2:00 pm

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