Gmail, Facebook Messages Inch Toward Legal Protection

"How many times have I told you? Always call from an outside line!" Those of you with a history of sketchy dealings lurking in your Facebook messages and/or Gmail archives are one step closer to search-and-seizure protection. Last week, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced an amendment that would require the…

Posted on: September 21, 2012 9:00 am

Staff predictions: Kansas State vs. OU

By SoonerNation staff | ESPN.comOklahoma 35, Kansas State 21Like last year’s bout, this game will be close through the first half. But K-State will struggle to handcuff Landry Jones in the second half again, and touchdown passes to Justin Brown and Trey Metoyer allow the Sooners to pull away. In Oklahoma…

Posted on: September 21, 2012 9:00 am

Why Linux on the desktop is still struggling

I have had my Linux laptop for several months now and I really like the platform. The performance is better, because the operating system has a smaller, more elegant footprint. Applications, available on the platform, are more easily controlled. And, to date, none have hung the laptop to where I…

Posted on: September 21, 2012 9:00 am

Office 365 Has the Potential to Drive Technology Business [interview]

<!–[if lt IE 7]&gt;–> end javascript to email the article Emma OkonjiAll Africa Global Media Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Emmanuel Onyeje, tells Emma Okonji about Office 365, and its significance to cloud computing. Excerpts: What is Office 365 all about and what relevance has it in today’s business? The Microsoft…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 7:01 pm

How to make SharePoint search less problematic

SharePoint was designed to serve as a repository for user data (among other things). Thedownside is that it’s not always easy to pull a particular piece of data from that vast vault ofinformation. Asmore and more data accumulates, a SharePoint search becomes an increasingly complex task.Fortunately, the task can be…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 7:01 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 Faces Open Source Rivals

Even as Redmond ramps up for the debut of Microsoft Office 2013, open-source rivals continue to challenge MS Office’s domination of productivity apps. And one of its rivals, Google Apps, has very powerful backing. All of this points to a big decision that IT managers at midsize firms will be facing…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 7:00 pm

Iron Mountain Releases RIM 360, Offers SharePoint Records Management …

Last year Iron Mountain sold off its digital assets to Autonomy. Then Autonomy got gobbled up by HP and we thought that was that. But any fears that Iron Mountain exited the information management space can be put to rest by today’s announcement of its new records management product that…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 7:00 pm

Hotmail’s Back, Punks

I’ll admit, I haven’t been very nice to Microsoft since I moved to Seattle a few months ago. *See alsoWindows 8 Phone: 4 Things to Expect But maybe it’s because they’re kind of like family, a little brother to pick on at dinner. After all, I sit here writing on a Windows…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 7:00 pm

Microsoft releases Office 2011 14.2.4, Microsoft Office 2008 12.3.4 updates …

Posted by: Chris Barylick Date: Thursday, September 20th, 2012, 07:24 Category: News, Software On Wednesday, Microsoft released its Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.4 update. The update, a 116 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Office 2011 for Mac now supports retina rendering on Mac computers that are equipped with a Retina display. Improvements for…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 2:00 pm

One Thing I Hate About Gmail

This is a very small complaint, so I apologize for taking your time with it, but it exemplifies something that used to make a lot of Google products really annoying and limited the company’s growth potential–something that, thankfully, Google has gotten a lot better about in recent years. For more…

Posted on: September 20, 2012 2:00 pm