Microsoft Plans to Switch Windows Live Messenger with Skype

After months of speculation about the possible removal of Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft has decided to replace its messenger service with Skype in March 2013. Tony Bates, president of the Skype division in Microsoft, confirmed in his official blog that Windows Live Messenger will be withdrawn in all countries worldwide, except…

Posted on: December 10, 2012 9:00 am

Mailvelope Offers Free, Easy-to-Use PGP Encryption for Gmail, Outlook, and …

Chrome/Firefox: It’s no secret that email is grossly insecure. If you want a little privacy in your inbox, the easiest way to do it is to encrypt your messages, and Mailvelope offers free, OpenPGP encryption for most popular webmail services that’s easy to configure and a breeze to use….

Posted on: December 10, 2012 9:00 am

Top iPad office apps Winter 2012 edition

The iPad is more than a content consumption device as many can attest. There is no official Microsoft Office suite for the iPad but the apps on this short list of office suites go a long way to fill that void. Apple’s Office suite is not really a suite, consisting…

Posted on: December 9, 2012 7:01 pm

Use Hotmail Technical Support to Unblock your Hotmail Account

Microsoft is known to bring out innovative products that change the way things are being looked at. Within a span of a couple of decades, the company has credits to bringing out several kinds of products that are not only useful, but a vital part of today’s world. Windows till…

Posted on: December 9, 2012 2:00 pm

Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault

The Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault contains concise videos on topics related to running Microsoft Exchange in a virtualized environment. You will learn why you should virtualize Microsoft Exchange, tips on how to get started virtualizing your Exchange landscapes and advice on optimizing your virtualized Microsoft Exchange deployment. Learn how VMware can…

Posted on: December 9, 2012 9:00 am

Microsoft Readies 5 ‘Critical’ Updates for December

Microsoft will be finishing off 2012 with a monthly security update that addresses 11 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Office and Windows. This months patch will feature five bulletins rated "critical" (highest severity warning) and two rated "important," (second-highest severity warning) according to Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Advance Notification. Six of…

Posted on: December 8, 2012 7:01 pm

Text messaging on a contact lens coming soon

Though I’m visually impaired, I’ve never been much of a contacts guy. Something about having something on my eyes all the time freaks me out. Though, my glasses never do project images that I can see just by having my eyes open. While contacts could for a while, the technology…

Posted on: December 8, 2012 7:01 pm

Google revamps Gmail for iPhone, iPad; adds multiple account support

Computerworld – Google on Tuesday rolled out version 2.0 of Gmail for iOS, a redesigned upgrade that supports up to five email accounts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Matthew Izatt, Google’s Gmail product manager, announced the update yesterday in a blog post. Google introduced Gmail for iOS in November 2011. By most…

Posted on: December 8, 2012 7:00 pm

Tool to Move SharePoint Database Files Is Now Packed With New Capabilities

Gothenburg, Sweden, 8 Dec, 2012 Via this release, organization wants to explore that process to move SharePoint database files from one account to other is not so complicated now as SharePoint Organiser is integrated with new capabilities to boost up the performance of application. Shifting data from one version of These days,…

Posted on: December 8, 2012 7:00 pm

The Future of Tech Conferences Is Tech

I was able to attend a couple of tech conferences this fall. The first was the revived Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in September, which was put on by Microsoft to celebrate the launch of Exchange Server 2013. The second show was Microsoft Exchange Connections, part of the larger Windows Connections Although…

Posted on: December 8, 2012 2:01 pm