In Messaging War, GOP Says Obama Is Dramatic

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, left, and Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador say House Speaker John Boehner shouldn’t have agreed with Obama that budget cuts are bad. President Barack Obama’s been stumping hard, traveling thousands of miles to warn Americans about longer airport security lines, a lack of food inspections, furloughed government…

Posted on: February 28, 2013 9:00 am

This week at Microsoft: Outlook.com, Lync, and the Surface Pro

Happy Friday dear readers, it’s time for our weekly look back at all things Microsoft. As per usual, ensure that you are following TNW’s Microsoft channel on both Twitter and Facebook, and let’s dispense with babble and embark into the news.Outlook.com: big, growing This week Microsoft announced that…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 7:00 pm

EPiServer Connects SharePoint Content to the Website

Wednesday, EPiServer releases a new connector that allows organizations to collaborate on website content within SharePoint. Bringing SharePoint Assets to the Web Does your organization use SharePoint to collaborate on documents such as whitepapers and eBooks? Maybe you take advantage of the Office integration with SharePoint. It’s a common scenario…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 Release Date: Office 365 Updates Now Available, New …

By I-Hsien Sherwood (i.sherwood@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Feb 27, 2013 03:36 PM EST (Photo : Reuters) A Microsoft Office logo is shown on display at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego January 18, 2012. Microsoft released an update on Wednesday to Office 365, the subscription-based version of Office 2013. The update adds social "In addition…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft officially offers workarounds for iOS 6.1 Exchange errors including …

We reported on Friday that AOL had informed its corporate employees via email that it would be temporarily disabling the ability to manage meetings with Exchange on iOS devices running iOS 6.1. AOL confirmed that it was working with Microsoft and Apple to fix the "continuous loop" bug, and many When…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 7:00 pm

Outlook.com And Hotmail Services Restored

I am not quite sure about you, but some folks did experience an outage when it came to Hotmail as well as Outlook.com services earlier yesterday morning, where these affected users of Microsoft’s recently revamped Outlook.com email service were unable to hook up to their accounts. Of course, there were…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 7:00 pm

Google adds Calendar results to Gmail search in expanded field trial program …

Google has added Calendar results to its enhanced Gmail search in an ongoing field trial program open to Gmail users in the US. The field trial for an enhanced Gmail search began late last year and has been iterated on to include more info in Gmail search, as well as…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 2:00 pm

MetaVis Supports Office 365 for Business and SharePoint Online

Don’t Upgrade Your Mess; Migrate and Organize to Take Full Advantage of Office 365 and SharePoint Online PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire – Feb 27, 2013) – MetaVis Technologies announced today that its SharePoint migration, administration, information management and governance software support Microsoft’s latest release of Office 365 for business, SharePoint Online and SharePoint Many companies…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft Scores With Outlook.com

This may surprise you, but I find Microsoft’s Outlook.com to be a near-perfect email system. You have to laugh at the fact that it took more than a decade for Microsoft to transition from Hotmail to Outlook.com. The company was clearly baffled by Hotmail in every way. First…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 2:00 pm

Canadian government warns BBM PIN-to-PIN messaging is ‘most vulnerable …

Canadian government agency Public Safety Canada, which is tasked with overseeing cyber-security across all federal departments, has issued a memo warning government workers that communicating using BlackBerry Messenger PIN-to-PIN messaging is "the most vulnerable method of communicating on a BlackBerry." Canada’s Postmedia News obtained the memo this week, which repeatedly…

Posted on: February 27, 2013 2:00 pm