Startups cleaning up Microsoft Exchange, Gmail and JavaScript

Finding an enterprise IT company at a startup gathering these days can be like searching for an obscure email in a crowded inbox. But in prepping to attend Tuesday night’s Web Innovators Group (Webinno) event in Cambridge, Mass., I did find one, and maybe two enterprise-focused newcomers: Skimboxand Qbaka. Skimbox,…

Posted on: September 26, 2013 9:00 am

Kate Moss Sells as Collection Reaps $2.73 Million at Christie’s

"Kate Moss on lounge chair I, Glen Cove, NY" (December 1995) by Sante d’Orazio, for Italian Vogue. One from an edition of three, the C-print mounted on aluminum is included in an auction of works in various media depicting the British supermodel being sold by the German collector Gert Elfering A…

Posted on: September 26, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft could be making Office 365 a great place to analyze data

Say what you will about Microsoft Office 365, but it’s actually turning into a pretty good place to analyze data. The latest improvements, which the company announced on Wednesday, include natural language search and improved geocoding capabilities. Much of the new goodness is part of Microsoft’s Power BI service, a collaboration…

Posted on: September 26, 2013 9:00 am

Top Pennsylvania School Officials Resign Over Racist, Raunchy Text Messaging …

Former Coatesville, Pa., School Superintendent Richard Como and former Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Donato. In the scandalous text messages exchanged by two now former top school officials from the Coatesville Area School district in Pennsylvania, a white female is berated for allegedly having sexual relations with a black…

Posted on: September 26, 2013 9:00 am

Twitter turns its social messaging platform into an emergency alert system

Building on previous disaster response efforts, Twitter is rolling out a feature that will let agencies broadcast messages in a crisis. The program, called simply Twitter Alerts, lets users sign up for emergency messages from agencies like FEMA, the World Health Organization, and local police departments. Once you opt into…

Posted on: September 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Text-Messaging Debt Collector Hit With $1 Million Fine for Posing as Law Firm

Getty Images/Image SourceHarassing text messages aren’t just for scorned lovers anymore. At least one debt collection agency has been using texts to go after indebted consumers — and the government says that those texts broke the law. The Federal Trade Commission regularly sues debt collectors for illegal collection practices,…

Posted on: September 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Prevost: A look into the numbers for the Georgia-LSU matchup

National and conference championship aspirations abound Saturday in Athens as No. 6 LSU and No. 9 Georgia, two founding members of the nation’s finest football conference, meet for the 30th time. Toe-to-leather is set for 3:30 p.m. between the hedges of Sanford Stadium and CBS will televise the contest nationally. ESPN’s ever-popular…

Posted on: September 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Sotheby’s to Auction $60 Million Pink Diamond in Geneva

A 59.60-carat pink diamond is estimated to raise more than $60 million, a record for any gemstone at auction, when it is sold in Switzerland in November. The oval-cut stone, the largest internally flawless fancy vivid pink diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), will be sold by…

Posted on: September 25, 2013 2:01 pm

Recopilar datos mediante mensajes de correo electrónico

Conozco muchos informaticos y usuarios, incluyendome a mi, que menospreciabamos el uso del paquete de Office, simplemente nos conformamos con decir ante un problema muy simple o tipico de una empresa: "Vamos a programar un pequeno software que realice esa funcion", existiendo desconocimiento de las funcionalidades del paquete de Office….

Posted on: September 25, 2013 2:01 pm

SteamOS: could Valve’s game console challenge Windows?

On Monday, the developer responsible for possibly the most critically acclaimed video games of the modern era Half-Life and Half-Life 2 announced that it was building its own Linux-based operating system to deliver PC games to the living room. Tomorrow, Valve is widely expected to announce hardware as well, possibly Valve…

Posted on: September 25, 2013 2:00 pm