Gun-control foe to speak in Oneonta

Staff Report The Daily Star The Daily Star Mon Feb 18, 2013, 08:00 AM EST Thomas King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, will be the featured speaker Tuesday at a meeting of Citizen Voices at the Elks Club in Oneonta. King, a board member of the National Rifle…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

Apple promises to squash iOS 6.1 Exchange bug

Apple has been having some significant issues with software of late. The company had some serious issues with its Maps software that was providing some users with downright dangerous driving directions. When Apple issued its latest iOS update, several issues were noted. The issues with the operating system were bad…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Offers Workarounds for iOS 6.1 Exchange Bug

iOS 6.1, which was released two weeks ago, brought with it a handful of serious bugs. The first bug, which affected 3G performance on the iPhone 4S was fixed yesterday, following Apple’s release of 6.1.1 for the iPhone 4S. The second bug involved an error that caused iOS devices running 6.1 to As…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

StarHub, SingTel to take on messaging apps with own platforms

Two out of the three Singapore telcos are going heads on against popular messaging apps, and have plans to develop their own WhatsApp-like applications and partner app developers. According to Today news site on Monday, SingTel and StarHub are developing their own platforms amid a decline in SMS usage driven…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

Skype launches video-messaging service

Mac users also get the option to download the video messages they receive. The feature is not comparable to Vine, Twitter’s recent offering which allows six-second clips to be posted and run as a loop on the microblogging site Skype says its service has been launched in an early beta…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft Outlook 2013 review

For many business users, Microsoft Outlook is the go-to client for email. That includes a good part of the more than 1 billion Office users worldwide. This update to Outlook 2013 sports a clean new look, more social integration, and a few nifty new gadgets, but it’s not a revolutionary Outlook 2013 All…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

MAKING SENSE OF EMAIL SOFTWARE PROGRAMS

Outlook Express is an email program that came bundled with all versions of Windows prior to Vista. In Vista, Microsoft replaced Outlook Express with Windows Mail, which was a similar program. In Windows 7 and 8, Microsoft did not include an email program, but urged users to download Windows Live Outlook is…

Posted on: February 18, 2013 9:00 am

Monster Microsoft Patch Tuesday focuses on Windows, Explorer, Exchange

In addition to covering Windows and Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s latest monthly batch of patches covers the widely used Exchange Server, both the Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 editions. "Microsoft delivered a monster sized patch this month … It’s enough to make your head spin," wrote Andrew Storms, director of security Overall,…

Posted on: February 17, 2013 7:00 pm

Horse trainer’s business vaults to success

Some might say you can’t do anything like starting a business until you reach a certain age. Don’t tell that to Addie Manning. One passion of the 21-year-old has led her to start a horse training business and vaulting club in the Yakima Valley. Growing up in Canada, Manning lived…

Posted on: February 17, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Suggests Blocking iOS 6.1 Over Exchange Bug

Apple’s iOS 6.1 update may have solved an issue that undermined cellular performance on the iPhone 4S, but evidently it didn’t repair a second bug that cut some users off from Microsoft Exchange. On Tuesday, Microsoft broadcast a support document acknowledging the issue and offering some workarounds to avoid it…

Posted on: February 17, 2013 7:00 pm