Facebook’s paid messaging experiment lets you harass celebrities for a premium

Remember the Facebook experiment that’d let you pay to send messages to strangers inboxes? According to several reputable sources, not only will you be able to inflict your opinions on members of the general public, but for a premium you’ll also be able to abuse celebrities. According to The Sunday…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Outlook hitting Windows RT this year, report says

Microsoft Outlook — the Redmond company’s email and calendar software — is rumoured to be coming to Windows RT later this year. Win SuperSite’s Paul Thurrott claims to have met two people on the Microsoft campus (though not employees of the company) using the application on their Surface with Windows…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 9:00 am

Messaging App Line’s Kawaii Characters Get Their Own Cartoon Series In Japan

Line’s animated characters, which helped it become one of Asia’s top messaging apps with more than 120 million users, now have their own cartoon series. The TV show, called "LINE TOWN," premiered on Tokyo TV Channel 6 last week (h/t Asiajin). "Line Town" features half-hour-long episodes and a prime 6:30PM to…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 9:00 am

RDA Partners with Nintex to Offer Advanced SharePoint Workflow Platform …

Leading business solutions provider RDA Corporation has formed a strategic partnership with Nintex to offer advanced SharePoint solutions for workflows, forms, and analytics. As a gold certified Microsoft partner with more than 40 SharePoint specialists, RDA has delivered over 350 successful custom application development projects involving SharePoint since its founding This partnership…

Posted on: April 8, 2013 9:00 am

Twitter, Google Celebrate April Fools’

The Internet is full of jokes, hilarious images and funny comments. But on April 1 the Internet reaches all-time high levels of tomfoolery. Yes, April Fools’ Day is the Internet’s favorite prank day. But of all the companies and people playing jokes, tech companies take to their natural habitat to RELATED:…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 7:00 pm

Google Picks Twilio As The First Voice And Messaging API Through Its Cloud …

Twilio today is taking one more step in its bid to become the most ubiquitous voice and messaging API available to developers: it is announcing a partnership with Google’s Cloud Platform. This makes it the first time that a voice and messaging API-based solution has been integrated with the Google…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 7:00 pm

Practice Safe Search: 10 Essential SharePoint 2013 Search Hints

A recent Nielsen Norman Alertbox post talked about how most "users are incredibly bad at finding and researching things on the web." The article mentions that most users have learned to limit their use of search on intranets because intranet search is so poorly implemented. I have also found this…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 Review: Refinement, Integration, and Ribbons

Microsoft’s flagship suite of productivity software, Office 2013, offers enhanced integration and many refinements over the previous 2010 iteration of the suite. The company has also created a two-paths-to-ownership approach of the software rent it for a year or buy it for one device. For more information on how to None of…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 7:00 pm

Google Babel shows up in Gmail message and Google Groups

It’s now widely accepted that Google’s new unified chat service is named ‘Babel’. The role that Babel will play between Google’s various chat services, unifying them, is a hat tip in itself to the Tower of Babel, pictured above. Babel is said to allow users to access the same conversation…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 7:00 pm

Worthing café owner calls on Herald readers to re-name business

A WORTHING cafe owner who has struggled to re-name his business is asking people from the town to come up with a new name. Tom Lines took over Julie Scrumptious, in Brighton Road, back in October from previous owner Julie Evans, who had named the business. Having worked in different…

Posted on: April 7, 2013 2:00 pm