Nokia, Avanade team up to offer devices, services to enterprises

Nokia has penned a deal with business technology and managed services provider Avanade that will see the company create and deliver Nokia Lumia devices, along with supported applications and services to large enterprise customers.Windows Phone 8. Credit: Microsoft Accenture subsidiary Avanade, which was part founded by Microsoft in 2000, will Avanade…

Posted on: January 9, 2013 9:00 am

SharePoint upgrades cause problems for some users, developers

Recent back-end upgrades by Microsoft to Office 365’s SharePoint Online are causing problems for some users and developers whose workflows and applications have been disrupted by a variety of bugs. At SP Marketplace, a Sacramento, California, developer of business applications that run on SharePoint, staffers are now constantly monitoring their…

Posted on: January 8, 2013 2:00 pm

Glider Automatically Eliminates Distracting Emails from Your Gmail Inbox

Email quickly becomes overwhelming when you have tons of messages prying away your fickle attention span. Glider helps alleviate the issue by automatically pulling notifications and commercial emails out of your inbox and into specific labels. All you have to do is enable the service, spend a minute training it,…

Posted on: January 8, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft Unhappy With Google’s Decision To End Support For Exchange …

Google has just made it a little harder for Gmail users on rival platforms to synchronize their important Google-related stuff by dropping support for Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync. As you know, Exchange ActiveSync or EAS is a protocol that is designed to sync email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a…

Posted on: January 8, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft Office 365 Migration: Growing Opportunity for Channel

As businesses look to cloud services providers to take their existing systems and move them to the cloud, whether it’s in public or private cloud offerings, there’s a growing opportunity for channel partners to provide their customers with migration services. One of the big opportunities in that area is in…

Posted on: January 7, 2013 2:00 pm

Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

On paper, InterScan Messaging Security from Trend Micro is a wonderful product. Combining on-premise software with an optional cloud-based pre-filter, the tool provides a flexible approach to email security. If we would have been able to get it working, we would probably be impressed. The software shipped to us was…

Posted on: January 7, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 adding more …

As we await the launch of Office 2013, with rumors suggesting it will be made available to the public on March 31, Microsoft says it wants to expand the support for its productivity software suite to even more people across the world. In a post on the Office blog, Microsoft has announced…

Posted on: January 7, 2013 2:00 pm

Step by step: Exchange 2010 virtualization on vSphere

As you move through the process of virtualizing Exchange Server 2010, remember that Exchange isa mission-critical enterprise application. A cautious, systematic approach will yield the bestresults. Follow the steps outlined below to minimize problems and streamline your Exchange 2010virtualization project.Step 1: Identify the five Exchange 2010 server roles The ultimate goal here…

Posted on: January 7, 2013 2:00 pm

Three Hurdles SharePoint 2013 Faces this Year

Never before has Microsoft tied so many of its big products together before as it has with this latest wave. Windows 8, Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 all share the same common look and feel. Office 2013 is now part of Office 365, and will even save files to the cloud As a result any one…

Posted on: January 7, 2013 2:00 pm

Gadgets that can IMPROVE Windows 8 experience

Here’s how you can make life easier while using Windows 8 on your old desktop Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400R Price: Rs 2,995 The keyboard comes with a large 3.5-inch touchpad which is compatible with Windows 8. Scrolling vertically and horizontally on my old laptop was a charm.

Posted on: January 7, 2013 9:00 am