Dennis-Yarmouth offers Microsoft Office for adults
By popular demand, Dennis-Yarmouth Adult Education will offer a six-week course in Microsoft Office starting Wednesday, April 24. The course includes an open forum classroom to address student’s specific questions and problems. Pre-register online at dy-regional.k12.ma.us or by mail to D-Y Adult Education, 296 Station Ave., South Yarmouth, MA 02664. For…
Subway recognized for fruit and vegetable messaging
The Subway restaurant chain was named an Industry Champion by the Produce for Better Health Foundation. The brand was recognized for "encouraging customers to build their sandwich or salad just the way they like it, with their choice of fresh vegetables and toppings." Subway was also commended for including its…
Microsoft Adds Needed Features To Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, People Apps
When Windows RT and Windows 8 launched last year, several of Microsoft’s built-in apps were functional, but lacked elegance and usefulness. With a trio of updates scheduled for this evening, Microsoft is improving the Mail, People, and Calendar apps to appeal to a wider range of users and catch up Microsoft…
SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but a long-term plan
CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map last week, but the updates were a reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products. It’s been about eight months since Microsoft closed the $1.2 billion While…
North Ridgeville schools switch telephone messaging systems
NORTH RIDGEVILLE – The city school district will contract with eSchoolView for its Instant Connect telephone messaging system. The school board March 19 approved awarding a contract running through June 30, 2015 to the company for its system that automatically dials parents with a prerecorded message in the event of The board opted…
Chicago Stock Exchange chooses Informatica for messaging..
Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) has standardized on Informatica Ultra Messaging as its enterprise messaging backbone. Informatica Corporation (INFA), the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, today announced that this is resulting in more effective trading services for CHX.Informatica Ultra Messaging, part of the Informatica Platform, enables CHX…
Microsoft Cloud Services Locks You Out Of Your Digital Life, Won’t Explain Why
Microsoft wants to be the provider of all of your cloud services, from webmail (Outlook) to storage (SkyDrive), aiming for the same market as cloud services from competitors like Google and Apple. The new product has a lot of fans, including Josh. Well, Josh was a big fan until Microsoft…
Open-Xchange: Killing Microsoft Office Softly With Kindness?
Open-Xchange is launching OX Documents, a cloud-based office productivity suite that includes OX Text, an in-browser word processing tool that adds direct editing capabilities for Microsoft Word .docx files and OpenOffice or LibreOffice .odt files, and offers real-time collaboration features to improve workflow and efficiency. The German-based open-source software (OSS)…
Windows Blue ISO image, video leaked online
Just six months after the first retail computer systems with Windows 8 went on sale, an early development snapshot of Windows Blue has been leaked to the web. As you’d expect, enthusiastic early adopters who aren’t concerned about that Microsoft Confidential warning have taken to forum sites and YouTube to So…
How 3 decades of weak Democratic messaging undermined Medicare and …
Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday excoriating Republicans for the damage they caused their own party by supporting the Iraq war. The title of the piece asks whether the Republican party can ever recover from that one mistake. Considering that Democrats…
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