Microsoft responds to Guardian claims about access to Hotmail e-mail, Skype …
4:10 p.m.: Microsoft issued a statement on today’s NSA reporting to tech blog The Verge. "To be clear, Microsoft does not provide any government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product," it reads in part.Earlier: Tech company Microsoft helped the National Security Agencydevelop methods…
How To Automate Microsoft Office Deployment With Office 365 ProPlus
Here’s a great new video series to help IT Pros understand, deploy and manage the new Office. This week Microsoft’s Jeremy Chapman and Australia’s own Yoni Kirsch (from Fastrack Technology) deep-dive into Click-to-Run: the new Setup tech used by Office 365 ProPlus instead of the traditional Windows Installer (MSI). Yoni This…
How to delete or move a lot of Gmail messages
MLStrand56 had a Gmail question for the Answer Line forum: How does one archive or delete every email from a particular sender–or that matches some other criteria? Gmail lacks an obvious, simple tool for bulk operations. There’s no button to click or menu option to select for deleting or altering…
Hotmail, Outlook, Skype: Microsoft erlaubt NSA Zugriff auf Kundendaten
Microsoft ist NSA-Whistleblower Edward Snowden zufolge direkt in den Skandal um das US-Spionageprogramm "Prism" verwickelt. Demnach habe der Software-Riese der NSA Zugriff auf seine Web-Dienste wie Hotmail, Outlook und Skype gewaehrt.Microsoft hat neuen Dokumenten zufolge eng mit den US-Geheimdiensten zur Ausspaehung seiner Kunden zusammengearbeitet. Wie die britische Zeitung "The Guardian"…
Urban Airship develops in-app messaging hub
Push notifications specialist Urban Airship provides companies like CBS, Groupon and Warner Bros with tools that allow them to send messages to their app users. This could be to promote discounts, events, new products and so on. The marketing firm has now enhanced its services with a new in-app messaging…
Microsoft extends Office 365 availability to more Asian markets
Office 365 is now available in 38 new markets and in five new currencies, several of which cater to the Asia-Pacific region. Office 365 is now available in ringgit, Hong Kong dollar, and rupee. According to a blogpost by Microsoft’s Office 365 technical product manager Andy O’Donald, the office productivity suite is immediately Five…
Microsoft reboots with sweeping reorganization
Microsoft Corp. has decided its entire business needs a new operating system. CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change that has left the world’s largest software maker a step behind its two biggest rivals, Apple and Google. In an effort to…
NSA spionerar på Hotmail och Skype
Microsoft samarbetar naera med NSA, saerskilt vad gaeller Hotmail och Skype. Amerikanska myndigheter jagar visselblasaren Edward Snowden med blaslampa. Fragan om Snowdens asylaerende laer ha fatt USA:s president Barack Obama att ringa upp sin ryske kollega Vladimir Putin pa fredagen. Det storpolitiska spelet om Snowdens asyl aer bisarrt. Samtidigt…
Report: Microsoft collaborated closely with NSA
Protesters march outside the U.S. Capitol against the NSA’s secret Web surveillance program last month. STORY HIGHLIGHTSA new report from the Guardian newspaper claims Microsoft willingly collaborated with the NSA Report: Microsoft allowed feds to circumvent its encryption system to spy on usersMicrosoft says it turns over data on…
Phone Calls Are Back in Gmail
Google announced today on the Gmail blog that it’s bringing back the ability to make phone calls from Gmail, and added the capability to Hangouts and Google+. Like Hangout, phone calls will have Google Effects like applause and laughter (though we’re not sure how it will implement party hats or…
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