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Support documents show Microsoft Office coming to iPad

An example of a French support listing referencing Office products for the iPad. Via Mac4Ever. It looks more and more like Microsoft Office is coming to Apple’s iPad. There have been rumors and screenshots of Office potentially coming to iOS devices, but now new documents at official French and…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 7:00 pm

Microsoft’s Office 365 reportedly at the heart of battle with Apple over its …

Yesterday TNW broke the news that Microsoft is at odds with Apple over fees required to be paid over subscription services that have a presence in the iOS App Store. This has led to a delay in the update schedule for SkyDrive for the Apple platform, as the two companies…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 7:00 pm

Opinion: Apple Should Not Give In To Microsoft’s Demands Over Office For iOS

I’ll be honest with you: I use Microsoft Word on my Mac. I can’t tell you exactly the reasons that I do this, except to say that old habits are hard to break. If anything, it probably goes back to my corporate days when I used a PC each day….

Posted on: December 16, 2012 2:00 pm

Google screws over Gmail users on Windows Phone, essentially telling them to …

Google on Friday announced it is shutting down a slew of features and services as part of its latest "winter cleaning." The biggest news was dropping consumer support of Google Sync, meaning the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol, on January 30, 2013, and instead recommending CalDAV for calendar, CardDAV for contacts, At first…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 2:00 pm

Hit Asian messaging app Line launches in China, the home of staunch rival …

Japanese messaging service Line is lining up to enter a new market again, and this time it’s a significant one: China, where it arrives as a serious underdog to Tencent’s WeChat (know locally as "Weixin"). The Chinese name for the service owned by Korean Internet giant Naver is "Lian Wo",…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 9:01 am

Google Dropping Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync: What Do You Do?

Google has officially announced that it’s removing support for Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol (Google Sync) as of January 30, 2013. Those currently using Google Sync to connect their mobile devices to their Gmail will remain unaffected, but new users will not be given the option to use Google Sync. The company is…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 9:01 am

Amazon launching its own cloud-based push messaging system for Kindle Fire …

Amazon has just announced it’s own cloud-based push messaging system built specifically for Kindle Fire apps, called Amazon Device Messaging. Right now it’s purely a developer tool, but it should eventually make Kindle Fire apps a lot more useful previously, developers had to write their own push notification systems, but…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 9:01 am

Google’s sync changes are going to screw Gmail users on Windows Phone

Posted on: December 16, 2012 9:00 am

[Infographic] SharePoint 2013 in 2012

In August, we illustrated the current state of SharePoint. As it is now December and time for retrospectives, we decided that we’d take a look back at what kept us most engaged about SharePoint this year SharePoint 2013. Currently in beta and scheduled to be released for the public in the…

Posted on: December 16, 2012 9:00 am

Study shows text messaging the most distracting form of ‘distracted walking’

We hope you don’t need examples like "the Fountain Lady" and "distracted walker in China" to know that distracted walking, which is using your mobile device while walking can be dangerous. If you need examples, however, there is a study (not an app) for you. The study was published on…

Posted on: December 15, 2012 7:01 pm