Axceler Offers End-to-End Migration Support for SharePoint 2013

Axceler’s Migration Axceleration Promotion Provides Organizations With Unmatched Capabilities to Manage SharePoint Migrations WOBURN, MA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2013) – Axceler, a leader in enterprise collaboration governance, administration and migration solutions, today announced its Migration Axceleration Promotion in support of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 to provide businesses with end-to-end migration support. The migration…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Office Included Free on Small Windows Tablets

If Acer’s $379 Iconia W3 is any indication, small Windows 8 slates will have a tough time competing on price with other cheap tablets. To compensate, Microsoft will include a free copy of Office Home and Student 2013 with "small screen" Windows 8 tablets. The Acer Iconia W3 is the first tablet to take…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 2:00 pm

TechEd 2013’s sleeper hits: Windows Azure, Windows 8.1, and Exchange

Given the number of items Microsoft announced last year across the Windows OS, Windows Server (including Exchange), and Visual Studio product lines, I expected this year’s TechEd conference to be fairly boring. It’s true that the announcements this week at Microsoft’s annual customer conference aren’t rocking the industry, but there…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 2:00 pm

Next MSP Backup Move: Microsoft Exchange Server

My previous guest blog described why MSPs need to push beyond file-level backup to offer database backup. A natural first step, I noted, involves backup services for Microsoft SQL Server — which continues to enjoy double-digit sales growth. But don’t end your journey there. Expand your scope to include Exchange…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

SMS remains the best channel for business messaging

Some commentators on the state of the SMS messaging industry point to the death of SMS as a communications medium. This may be true for global consumer use of SMS messaging in the face of newer communication technologies but these prophecies of SMS’s doom are overstated when looking how SMS…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

Insightly links cloud CRM with Microsoft Office 365, Outlook 2013

One of the most popular cloud CRM applications, Insightly, — a perennial favorite in the Google Apps marketplace — now boasts a tighter integration with Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook 2013. That means, essentially, that small-business owners can manage customer interactions, leads, proposals and such right from within either the Office applications…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

With last tweet, Hotmail bids goodbye

The official account of Hotmail got its last tweet out on Tuesday bidding farewell to its followers on the social networking site. Microsoft completed the move from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million accounts. The new Outlook email client has several different features from…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

Saudi Regulator Blocks Viber Messaging Service, Threatens Others

Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’sbiggest economy, blocked the Viber messaging applicationservice, the kingdom’s communication authority said. Viber doesn’t meet the regulatory requirements and laws inthe kingdom, the Saudi Communications and Information TechnologyCommission said today in statement on its website. Thecommission will "take appropriate action against any otherapplications or services that…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

AllRegs Selects Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint 2013

Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, is pleased to announce that AllRegs, the leading information provider for the mortgage industry, has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to improve issues surrounding findability and search for its mortgage…

Posted on: June 5, 2013 9:00 am

Cracker Barrel: Value messaging drove 3Q sales

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. reported a same-store sales increase of 3.1 percent during the third quarter of 2013, marking the company’s sixth consecutive quarter of increased traffic and sales. During an earnings call with analysts, Cracker Barrel chief executive Sandra B. Cochran attributed some of the company’s boosted sales to…

Posted on: June 4, 2013 7:00 pm