More than 140 billion emails sent in 2012

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Posted on: January 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Google retracts Gmail’s new ‘Quote selected text’ feature and puts it back …

Last month, Google graduated three Gmail Labs features: "Send and archive," "Default reply to all," and "Quote selected text." Exactly 50 days later, Google has decided to retract the last one, pulling it away from Gmail. Here’s Google’s explanation: We’ve been listening to user feedback since the graduation and have decided…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 7:00 pm

10 Ways Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Will Improve Productivity

The key to success with any technology upgrade is to prove a return on investment from a productivity perspective. Businesses can often rush into updating technology or infrastructure deployments without carefully considering the benefits that they can bring. Decision makers need to keep the potential productivity benefits in mind and…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 review

Microsoft has so much going on this year, it’s difficult to conceive how it could also deliver a new version of its office suite. Office is a vast behemoth. Each of its many applications are stuffed full of features, developed after years of constant upgrades; adding anything of note must…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Hands on with Just.me’s unified messaging app for the iPhone

There’s certainly no shortage of smartphone apps that enable you to engage in conversations and share digital media with other people, but I couldn’t help impatiently awaiting the arrival of Just.me’s iPhone app during the past few months. The app finally launched this week, but in private beta, so…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Windows 8 and Xbox: How to realize their hidden synergy

The gaming PC and the living room game console have never been close friends. So PC gamers play their PC games, console gamers play their console games, and never the twain shall meet. Or is everything changing? Windows 8 helps tear down the wall that’s been built between these two Windows…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft reportedly testing Outlook application for Windows RT

Microsoft is reportedly testing an Outlook RT edition of its popular email client. ZDNet reports that the company has finished and is testing a version of Outlook for Windows RT, the operating system used on Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet. At present Windows RT ships with Office 2013 RT Home & A…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 2:00 pm

This company went Gmail because it’s “cool” — then discovered a surprising thing

Google, to borrow a turn of phrase from a bow-tied time traveler of some renown, is cool. At least, that’s what Bill Schechtman, IT Director for Quixote Studios, says, on his reasoning for moving the company’s 200-plus employees from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Google Apps. "Google is just cooler. We have…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 2:00 pm

Dutch survive crisis with tradition of compromise

The Netherlands is the world’s second largest agricultural exporter’ after the United States. AMSTERDAM: In the U.S., tax hikes have been the subject of partisan warfare that brought the country to the very edge of a "fiscal cliff." In southern Europe, spending cuts have led to mass protests and labor…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft revenue up, aided by Windows unit sales, though profit declines

Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft’s revenue increased 2.7 percent to US$21.46 billion in the quarter, which ended 31 December. Net income shrunk to $6.38 billion, or $0.76 CEO Steve…

Posted on: January 25, 2013 9:00 am