Messaging apps skirt carriers’ fees
LOS ANGELES TIMES Monday May 20, 2013 1:43 AM Francine Orr | Los Angeles Times Mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp have caught on with such force that users are sending trillions of messages a year through them, avoiding traditional texting fees. SAN FRANCISCO WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley’s most buzzed-about companies, yet…
You must protect your electronics, digital data
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Wacom Announces ‘Bamboo Loop,’ a Fun Photo Messaging App PetaPixel
Wacom the same company that brings Photoshop artists and big spenders products like the 24HD Touch announced today that it is making an addition to its more whimsical line of Bamboo products. Dubbed Bamboo Loop, the new iOS (and soon Android) app puts photo sharing and SMS together to create…
Four Ways to Build Confidence in Your SharePoint Governance Strategy
In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. Of the…
Hangouts in Gmail dumps Google Voice integration
Following Google’s rollout of a new Hangouts service for mobile and Google+, the company is giving Gmail users the opportunity to replace Google Chat with Hangouts integration. But heavy users of Google Voice may want to hold off on the switch, because the new Hangouts feature kills your capability to…
How a ‘reply all’ email led to a lawsuit Hamilton Spectator
We have all experienced that awful feeling after hitting the ‘send’ button and realizing a copy of a sensitive or confidential email has inadvertently gone to the wrong person. Usually, the situation is simply embarrassing. Not so for Maria Fernandes, a Mississauga employee of healthcare communications company Marketforce Inc. In…
USING FLASH DRIVES TO MOVE, STORE DATA
Shirley Springer wrote that she has nearly 400 messages in her Outlook Express "Inbox" and asked if she can move them all to a USB flash drive. Yes. Both Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail allow users to drag messages from their inbox (or any other OE/WLM folder) to another location….
Microsoft allows chat with Google contacts within Outlook.com
Microsoft has rolled out an important update to its Outlook.com, adding support to Google’s chatting service, Google Talk. This means users can chat with their Google contacts within Outlook.com. When you open the messaging section in Outlook.com or SkyDrive, you’ll see a message that guides to set up…
Mobile Payment Startup Payvia Buys Mogreet To Add Messaging-Based …
Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile marketing company that delivers campaigns via text, video and picture messaging services. Terms of the deal were not…
A Look Inside Derrick Rose’s Fake Gmail Inbox
Derrick Rose has mail. Lots of mail, actually. More than Tom Hanks, even. And if you’ve ever wondered what lies inside that treasure chest of an inbox of his, look no further. Beyond the Buzzer tweeted a totally fake, but equally believable picture of what the Chicago Bulls superstar’s inbox…
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