Microsoft gives Office to students whose teachers buy it
For years, Microsoft, Apple, and others have offered educational discounts to students. Now, Microsoft has gone significantly further, providing a free copy of Office to students whose schools license it for their faculty and staff. The Student Advantage program essentially extends an Office 365 subscription to the student body. Beginning Until…
BC construction industry looks to Ireland to recruit workers
The 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, the group’s vice-president said. In fact, even if one in five students graduating from high school in B.C. during the next three years were…
Violin gangs up with Microsoft: Psst, big biz, want an all-flash Windows …
Flash array front runner Violin Memory can now run Windows Server inside its high-end arrays, giving the server OS access to up to 64TB of NAND with the ability to run all Windows enterprise applications in solid state storage. Violin and Microsoft have partnered to make Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft…
Microsoft adds more e-mail, SharePoint integration to Yammer
Microsoft is making good on its commitment to add more e-mail and SharePoint integration to its Yammer enterprise social-networking product. On October 15, as part of its "Working Social Tour" event in San Francisco, Microsoft execs shared more on how the Yammer roadmap is evolving. (This is the update to Here’s…
US spy agency grabs Yahoo!, Gmail, and Hotmail address book data
America’s National Security Agency is gathering email and instant messenger contact lists from hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens worldwide, many of them Americans, The Washington Post reported late Monday.The US agency’s data collection program harvests the data from address books and "buddy lists,” the newspaper said, citing senior intelligence…
Mobile Networks Set to Suffer with Free Messaging Built Into Android
As free, instant messaging services take over, and Google looking set to introduce its own version though its Hangouts app, mobile operators – less able to charge for conventional text messages than ever before – face increased pressure to change their business model. Google is soon to include own SMS…
Users hate Yahoo’s ‘gorgeous’ new look, call it ‘Gmail knock-off’
Yahooligans are yodeling in rage over the broken features and unfamiliar interface that came with a significant new redesign to the Yahoo email service — a look that many are dismissing as Gmail knockoff. Yahoo Mail’s estimated 275 million users were angered to discover many of the service’s most useful – "Someone…
Tuesday Newsday: THQ sues EA, and gamers sign up for Movember again
THQ just won’t stay down; now it wants the lucrative UFC licence back. THQ returns from the grave to sue EA over the UFC licence I remember the moment that THQ died in my heart, months before it was formally declared bankrupt. It was at E3 in June last year,…
Twitter Adds Option to Open Direct Messaging From Folks You Don’t Follow
Twitter quietly snuck in an option that I’ve been wishing for for a long time, so color me happy. It’s a simple opt-in that would allow people whom you don’t follow to send you a direct message. This option has a huge potential for misuse, but I think the opportunities…
Yahoo Mail Users Hate “Gorgeous” Redesign, Can’t Find the Print Button
Critics agree: The new, redesigned Yahoo Mail is gorgeous. In true Marissa Mayer fashion, the company gave its email service a minimalist makeover last week, stripping away unfashionable features like tabs and the "print" button in favor of a sleek layout that looks well, an awful lot like Gmail. And,…
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