Messaging ‘critical fix’ available for Belle Refresh smartphones
Available now (/rolling out) for all Belle Refresh smartphones is a ‘Fix for Messaging’, offering ‘critical fixes to known Messaging issues’. Quite what these are isn’t known, but if you’ve been having SMS issues then give this a try and let us know if your problem has been solved. The…
Microsoft Bolsters Ties Between Yammer, Office 365
8 Key Changes In Microsoft SharePoint 2013(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion and that the social networking platform would be integrated into the Microsoft Office division. Details on what that would look like –and This integration…
Open source, Web-based office suite takes on Google Docs, LibreOffice
The productivity software market has several recent success stories, despite the continued dominance of Microsoft Office. Google Docs built up a huge user base by providing a Web-based alternative to Microsoft. And LibreOffice, a descendant of OpenOffice, is providing a strong challenge on the desktop side. Now there is an…
Metalogix product breaks through SharePoint file size limit
Metalogix, an infrastructure provider for SharePoint, announced StoragePoint, a new product that provides a way to get past the SharePoint 2 gigabyte file size barrier–and it will work on SharePoint 2010 and 2013. To be honest, before I got this announcement, I had no idea there was such a barrier, but it turns…
CloudMagic for Windows 8 review excellent search service Windows 8 app
CloudMagic has gone Metro. The excellent search service, of which I’ve been a fan since it made its debut in 2010, is now available as a native application for Windows 8’s Metro interface. CloudMagic’s Windows 8 edition still delivers super-speedy, accurate search results across a host of services, but it You can…
Twitter Obtains Patent for Twitter-Like Messaging System
Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone have obtained a patent for a messaging system that sounds a lot like the micro-blogging site the duo eventually helped launch in 2006. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent on Tuesday, though it was first filed in July 2007 – shortly…
Microsoft nudges Office 365 Home users to the cloud
Microsoft has been dishing out various flavors of Office 2013 since November 2012, when enterprises with volume license plans got first access to the finished software. In mid-January, employees at those companies could buy a discounted copy as part of Microsoft’s Home Use Program. And Microsoft recently took the wraps Office 2013 Office…
Beware of Windows Live Messenger/MSN scams
Now Microsoft is killing off Windows Live Messenger, scammers have stepped in, trying to trick users into downloading fake installers that include malicious software. It’s important to be aware of the threat and be careful about what you download. As Windows Live Messenger users are migrated to Skype, many users…
Google Apps broker exploits enterprise concerns about Microsoft’s Office changes
A cloud service broker is pitching Google Apps to enterprises by playing on their fears about recent changes Microsoft’s made to Office. Atlanta-based Cloud Sherpas has had success moving Google Apps for Business by focusing on two major enterprise concerns about Office 2013: Microsoft’s push to a rent-not-buy subscription model, Those…
Exchange issues with iPhone on iOS 6.1
Exchange emails with Microsoft Exchange Server work fine, but there’s a bug in iOS 6.1 that drains resources when accepting meeting invites or anything that interacts with your Calendar. "Devices using the latest Apple iOS 6.1 are consuming a large quantity of Exchange resources when a user responds to a meeting It…
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