Google to Shut Down Sync Service, with Microsoft Taking The Brunt
Google has confirmed in a blog post that it will perform some "winter cleaning" to its service platform by shutting down a few services on January 30th, with the biggest one being its longstanding Sync service. Google Sync was Google’s answer to the lack of a unified service for synching…
Newcomer Kaazing Upgrades Backbone for Tibco Messaging
Kaazing 3.5 provides the backbone for Tibco’s Enterprise Web messaging service, a highly regarded, enterprise-strength messaging package for mobile and Web applications. An unusually named new company called Kaazing and the more well-known Tibco are waging a war on data-movement latency. Even a tiny bit of latency in real-time enterprise applications…
Hasty deployments threaten SharePoint platform success
Many organizations are failing to reap the full benefits of Microsoft SharePoint, largely due toslapdash deployments and lack of expertise, according to recent research from the Bethesda,Md.-based Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). "Most [SharePoint] implementations are unplanned, underdeveloped, unloved, but not unpopular," AIIM President John Mancini…
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Google discontinuing support for Exchange ActiveSync, affecting Windows …
In the past, I setup my Gmail and Google Calendar sync with iOS, Windows Phone, and Symbian devices using the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Google posted a Winter Cleaning post on the Official Google Blog stating that syncing via EAS is ending starting 30 January 2013. Google is also discontinuing Google Calendar Sync…
Google drops Exchange ActiveSync support for free email accounts
Google’s campaign to draw a sharp line between its free email offerings and what it delivers for paying customers is nearly complete. Last week, Google announced it was killing off its free Google Apps offering for new customers. Today it dropped the other shoe, announcing, in a bizarrely named "Winter…
Microsoft ending support for Live Mesh sync software, points users to SkyDrive …
As Microsoft continues its push to the cloud with SkyDrive, it’s decided to phase out support for Live Mesh its former preferred tool for keeping files synced across computers and the web. The discontinuation, Microsoft says, is due to the rapid pace of innovation in cloud computing. Additionally, the majority…
Microsoft Shuttering Live Mesh in Favor of SkyDrive
The cloud file-syncing platform is being retired in February and users are being encouraged to switch to SkyDrive. Microsoft is shutting down Live Mesh on Feb. 13, 2013, cutting off access to users of the file-syncing and remote-desktop service. But don’t panic, says the software giant. SkyDrive storage cloud is Live Mesh…
Microsoft Office for iOS delayed due to SkyDrive dispute?
Apple is said to be blocking a Microsoft SkyDrive app update in the Apple App Store over a dispute about its 30% cut of in-app revenue, leading to speculation that the company may also be holding up the iOS versions of Microsoft’s Office apps. The suggestion is that Apple may be…
Microsoft To Shut Down Live Mesh On February 13, 2013, Asks The Few …
Live Mesh, one of Microsoft’s earliest cloud services which launched in beta back in 2008, once looked poised to become Microsoft’s main platform for cloud storage, file syncing, and remote access. At the time, though, Microsoft’s cloud strategy was still up for grabs and it often felt like the company While…
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