Group hug: The future of Microsoft Office is shared and social

Microsoft Office doesn’t want you to be alone. Productivity should be a shared experience, apparently, and now the vaunted Office suite wants to integrate your social circles into all your spreadsheets, Word docs, and presentation decks. Imagine your co-workers, gathered virtually around your desk, showing you how to get more…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 7:00 pm

Questions raised over Dunderdale’s blackout emails

"Forty-six emails is what you might get in a morning," Parsons said. He estimated that in a day, he probably gets between 50 and 100 emails. "I’m an opposition MHA, and this is the premier – the premier’s office. I find that very hard to believe," he said. New Democrat Leader Lorraine…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 2:00 pm

Study: Use of patient portal secure messaging does not impact office visit …

There was no significant change in the frequency of office visits for patients who used an electronic messaging system through a patient portal, according to a retroactive study of 2,357 adult primary care patients at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester, Minnesota location. The data in the study was from April 2010 to August "The…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 2:00 pm

Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone available for download

Last week at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore announced that Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone would be available soon, and sure enough, it’s available now through the Windows Phone Store. Facebook Messenger has been available on iOS and Android for some time, and now you…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 2:00 pm

Former President Bill Clinton at Microsoft SharePoint event: Technological …

President Bill Clinton speaking today at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. President Bill Clinton today keynoted the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, thanking the roomful of Microsofties for their longstanding support of the Clinton Foundation and spelling out a future in which technology can help solve global problems. The…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 2:00 pm

Windows for free? Microsoft toys with service-stuffed ‘Windows 8.1 with Bing’

Microsoft is already rallying Windows for a price war with Google, and now it may be gearing up to call in some fresh troops to help combat the looming threat of Chromebooks and Android, andperhaps more importantlytransition users of past versions of Windows over to the Live Tile-clad Windows 8. Late…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 9:00 am

SharePoint gets personal with the Office Graph and Yammer integration

Microsoft kicked off this week’s SharePoint Conference 2014 with a demo of several new features coming to the collaboration platform later this year, bringing the social graph closer into the productivity experience with tighter Yammer integration and a search feature that works across the entire Microsoft Office ecosystem. Microsoft is working…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 9:00 am

Things to do to stay secure post Windows XP end of life

Windows XP April 8, 2014 deadline is just over two months away and there are still over 29 percent systems running the operating system. If you are using one of these systems, following are the things that you need to take care to remain secure past the end of life Web browsers can…

Posted on: March 5, 2014 9:00 am

BlackBerry email/messaging outage resolved

BlackBerry says an email and messaging service outage that affected customers in Canada and the Asia Pacific region on Tuesday has been resolved. Lisette Kwong, a spokeswoman for the Waterloo-based smartphone maker, thanked users for their patience but did not offer details on numbers affected or the cause of the…

Posted on: March 4, 2014 7:00 pm

Wiz Khalifa Releases Paid Sticker Pack For Multiple Messaging Apps Via …

As awareness of messaging as a social phenomenon in its own right grows, awareness of the role of stickers in monetizing free messaging apps is also growing. Stickers represent one of the major music marketing opportunities on messaging platforms as demonstrated by acts like Paul McCartney and One Direction. They’re…

Posted on: March 4, 2014 7:00 pm