Notorious rapist to be released

Convicted sex offender Ernie Meigs talks to CTV News in this file image.v One of B.C.’s most notorious sex criminals is being released from prison in a matter of weeks, according to documents obtained by CTV News. Ernest Thomas Meigs is due for statutory release on Nov….

Posted on: October 17, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft offers education sector Office 365 sweetener

Microsoft is giving the education sector a leg up into the cloud by offering free access to its Office 365 online productivity suite to existing Office licensees. The offer is part of the software giant’s Student Advantage programme, which is being ushered in on 1 December 2013 across the globe. From this date,…

Posted on: October 17, 2013 2:00 pm

SharePoint Will (Almost) Never Be Your Sole ECM System

This topic has to some degree been a theme in many of my posts over the last 18 months, but given how often I’m asked to speak to this in my day-to-day travels and given the amount of churn it causes among us pundits and prognosticators on both sides of The…

Posted on: October 17, 2013 9:00 am

BC looks to Ireland for construction workers

VANCOUVER The current shortage of skilled tradespeople in Western Canada is so dire that the B.C. Construction Association is returning to Ireland this month to hire 600 people, said the group’s vice-president. In fact, even if one-in-five students graduating from high school in B.C. during the next three years were…

Posted on: October 17, 2013 9:00 am

Why I don’t think on-premises Exchange is dead

One of the questions raised by some attendees at the recent Exchange Connections conference is the future of on-premises software. Apparently there’s quite a few people who think that Microsoft us busily killing off all its on-premises editions of server applications in the rush to embrace the cloud. In other…

Posted on: October 17, 2013 9:00 am

Reversal: Telstra no longer keen on Windows Live

blog It seems like only yesterday that Telstra first confirmed it was interested in dumping the email, blogging, photos and online storage platforms used by customers of its BigPond division and migrating customers to Microsoft’s Windows Live platform. It was just three years ago when the idea was first proposed,…

Posted on: October 16, 2013 7:00 pm

Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail: NSA greift 250 Millionen E-Mail …

Bis der Speicher voll ist: Einem US-Bericht zufolge greifen NSA-Mitarbeiter im grossen Stil Kontaktlisten bei bekannten E-Mail-Anbietern ab. Darunter Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail und Facebook. Die Rede ist von fast 700 000 Listen pro Tag.Der US-Geheimdienst NSA sammelt nach einem Bericht der "Washington Post" weltweit hunderte Millionen von Kontaktlisten aus E-Mail- An…

Posted on: October 16, 2013 7:00 pm

Cireson Unveils New Outlook Console App for Microsoft System Center

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Today Cireson, a leading force in the Microsoft System Center space, unveils yet another much anticipated app. This new release integrates with the Microsoft Outlook email client and is the first integration app of its kind. For Service Manager users, this means that (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131016/PH97159LOGO…

Posted on: October 16, 2013 2:00 pm

Hwy. 1 near Yale opens after MVI

Effective at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 15, open fires will be permitted in all fire zones within the Kamloops Fire Centre, due to a decreased risk of wildfires. Photo: Castanet Staff – File Photo Members of the public will be allowed to:burn waste, slash or other material burn stubble or grass…

Posted on: October 16, 2013 9:00 am

iCloud review

iCloud is currently the world’s most widely used cloud storage service, reaching 300 million users in April 2013. That’s a figure that beats Microsoft’s SkyDrive, at 250 million users in May, not to mention Dropbox, which only reached the 100 million user milestone in November last year. Yet while its rivals from iCloud’s issues…

Posted on: October 16, 2013 9:00 am