
I love public records laws like a firefighter loves his ax. I love the heft of the federal Freedom of Information Act (or the California Public Records Act) when I slam it into the door of the establishment. And I love it when it gets sharpened. Since 2009, open-records activists In…

Microsoft’s Office team has run like clockwork for at least the past decade. The 5,000 or so Office engineers delivered a new version of Office every 2.5 to 3 years without fail. But these days, two or three years between new product releases is considered an eternity. While it’s all well and good…

I received an email from the Portugal UPS people telling me the bikes and gear I shipped ahead for my global cycle around the world for cancer have been "arrested" by Portuguese customs. Using Google Translate, as it seems they are doing, can cause incorrect translations. (In another unrelated email…

Yahoo! sta cercando di risollevarsi dopo un periodo non molto florido, ed inoltre ha ancora attivi dei servizi ormai obsoleti che richiedono tempo e risorse. Per questo la societa ha deciso di fare una "pulizia" e chiudere alcuni servizi a partire dal 30 aprile. Il pubblico italiano non notera l’assenza di…

It’s clear that users love Skype, but just how much time are we all spending on the Microsoft-owned video chat service? Two billion minutes a day. Skype on Tuesday morning announced the milestone on its blog, noting that 2 billion minutes is enough time to travel to the moon and "Thank…

If you work with sensitive data or need to send private documents via email, you may want to encrypt your messages in Microsoft Outlook. When you encrypt an email, only someone who has a corresponding private key is able to read it. Before your recipient can read encrypted emails from…

Do you use Gmail a lot? Then you need to see this graphic with all the keyboard shortcuts that can make like a million times easier. It comes complete with visualizations of each action, for some reference of what you’re actually accomplishing. The shortcuts aren’t a big secret, but the…

On April 8, 2013 NetCom Learning presented "What’s New Microsoft Technologies", an all day complimentary event on Microsoft’s newest technology launches including sessions on Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013. The Microsoft technology event which was held at Microsoft’s New York office drew nearly one "These seminars provide a major opportunity…

Yahoo! parece continuar su resurrecion de ‘entre los muertos’ de los gigantes de Internet tras la llegada de la ex google Marissa Mayer para dirigir la compania. La estrategia esta clara: apostar por el movil. Hace unos meses lo hizo renovando por completo su aplicacion del servicio de fotografias Flickr…

Yahoo! has decided its Chinese customers don’t need their emailaccounts any more, and is closing the service in the country. A statement from Yahoo!Mail tells users that they will have four months, until 19August, to save their emails and switch to another provider. Thecompany suggests moving to AliCloud — if…