
The mission critical nature of technology in the enterprise has elevated the status of the IT department, which is gaining influence in shaping enterprise business strategy and company culture. However, the inverse is also true. Due to the inter-connectedness between business strategy and IT strategy, decisions made at the business…

The iPad app is now on version 3.0 (free, iTunes), which sees CloudOn introduce support for the iPhone 5, the iPad mini and the iPad Touch, while there is also now the functionality for saving to Microsoft’s SkyDrive. The news means that users can now save their Word, Excel, PowerPoint At the…

Today Palo Alto-based CloudOn, a company known for making Microsoft Office tablet- and smartphone-friendly, announced the launch of its platform for the iPhone and an updated version 3.0 of the software to support the iPad Mini, Nexus 7 tablet, and soon the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. Looking to make a BetaKit covered…

A: When you open Microsoft Outlook offline and compose and send an email message, the outbound message sits in the Outbox until connectivity with the configured SMTP server for the profile is available. The same thing happens when the SMTP server is unavailable for whatever reason. At home, I have…

Google is dropping some features in its software-as-a-service applications that are associated with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, it announced last week. Google uses Exchange ActiveSync as part of its Google Sync service, which synchronizes services such as Google Calendar, Contacts and Gmail. On Friday, Google announced in a blog post that…

ASX-listed specialist services company, Service Stream, has deployed Microsoft Office 365 to over 1,400 of the company’s employees following an overhaul of its communications and collaboration tools to a unified, easy-to-scale cloud solution. Service Stream Chief Information Officer, Craig Wishart, said Office 365 was the best fit with the company’s overall IT "In…

There’s something fishy going on with the Gmail app for iOS it’s sending duplicate emails out hours, sometimes days, after the original message goes out. Google says it is aware the issue is happening to some users and is working on a fix for it. TNW’s own Robin Wauters recently…

The Google enterprise team has published an update about how it is integrating Quickoffice and its office productivity solutions into Google Apps for business customers. The primary focus of the update is to inform Google Apps customers about how to convert old Microsoft Office files to Google documents and then…

The EU now plans to investigate the tech giant’s recent policy changes and how they may affect the privacy of its users. The policy changes were in regards to Microsoft’s Internet services like Bing and Hotmail. According to EU privacy regulators, Microsoft’s Internet products will be formally reviewed to make…

After some Winter cleaning, Google announced the immediate discontinuation of Google Sync and Google Calendar Sync. These applications were designed to synchronize Gmail accounts with Outlook, various devices and other software via Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol. Popular alternatives to Exchange ActiveSync, like IMAP and POP, give users access to…