Google Updates Gmail to Add Google Calendar Events

With the update, Gmail users will see dates and times in their emails lightly underlined. Once they click underlined date and time, Google says, users can quickly schedule an event such as a conference call or lunch date on Google Calendar without leaving Gmail. Just as on Google calendar, users…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 2:00 pm

Goodbye Hotmail! Microsoft completes Hotmail to Outlook migration.

For some time now Microsoft has been maintaining two email services at the very same time. First the established Hotmail email service and then the recently released Outlook.com email service. Hotmail users who were interested in the new service could migrate their accounts to Outlook.com. The decision was solely theirs…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 2:00 pm

Spam’s birthday and Hotmail’s closure lead email milestones

Spamthat scourge of the Internetturned 35 years old. And Microsoft pulled the plug on its hoary webmail service Hotmail.Spam started early The first spam message sent on what was to become the InternetArpanetis attributed to Gary Thuerk, who on May 3, 1978 sent a message to a mailing list of The practice…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 2:00 pm

Nova Offering Free SharePoint Training Session

Local software development company Nova Limited is offering either a free SharePoint training session or SharePoint Roadmap workshop to help local businesses get the most of their investment in the technology. Nova offers a range of SharePoint services but sees significant importance in the training and planning side of any…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 9:00 am

The End of Hotmail and Other News You Need to Know Mashable

Welcome to this morning’s edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google Keep now has an offline-capable Chrome app. Hotmail has finally closed down, and existing users…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 9:00 am

Kloudless Saves and Shares Gmail Attachments to Dropbox, Box, and More

Chrome: Kloudless is a free web service that can automatically move any email attachment you get to the cloud storage service of your choice, including Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive, and more. You can also share and upload files on those services to emails you send with a few clicks….

Posted on: May 4, 2013 9:00 am

How to make the move from Google Apps to Office 365

You may have decided a few years ago to move your email, file sharing, and productivity apps to the cloud using Google Apps — why manage all those servers and apps in your data center? But for productivity apps, Google Apps is not as richly featured as Microsoft Office. Now…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 9:00 am

RIP, Hotmail, and Thanks for All the Spam

I met you first at a Kinko’s in 1996. All those copies seems a bit wasteful now. We’d gather ’round in our blue aprons to watch those crazy-expensive color prints come spitting out, then we’d check our Hotmail. I know your buddy Kinko’s would have some stories to tell. I Even…

Posted on: May 4, 2013 9:00 am

Outlook.com vs. Gmail: What Microsoft is still missing

The great Hotmail migration is over. Microsoft recently announced that Hotmail as we’ve known it for yours is gone baby gone, and all its users have been transitioned to Outlook.com, which now boasts more than 400 million users worldwide. In its heyday, Hotmail was the go-to email client over competing…

Posted on: May 3, 2013 7:00 pm

AvePoint Outsmarts the Chaos with Interactive Meetings App for Microsoft …

AvePoint Meetings delivers new features for tracking notes, actions, and decisions, bringing order and efficiency to your organization’s meetings Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 AvePoint, the leader in governance, compliance, and management solutions for social enterprise collaboration platforms, today announced the launch of AvePoint Meetings, the latest addition to its…

Posted on: May 3, 2013 7:00 pm