Sometimes Microsoft gets a good idea and then doesn’t follow through on it. This is the case with SharePoint and support for education. There’s a long history here and Microsoft appeared to drop a major opportunity. But SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 may just change that. Virtual Learning Environments Or VLEs, as…

It all started last year, when tech journalist Nathan Newman conducted an experiment with Gmail. Newman’s experiment, while not exactly scientifically conducted, yielded some interesting results: the email service would give very different targeted ads to people based on ethnic-sounding names. For instance, when writing about buying a car, Jake…

BERLIN Samsung kicked off IFA here by unveiling its new Ativ lineup of portable devices. That included the Ativ Smart PC laptop/tablet hybrid and the Windows RT-based Ativ Tab tablet. The Ativ Tab comes with Microsoft Office 2013 pre-loaded, while Smart PC buyers get a 60-day trial. But how well…

Ithaca College’s Information Technology Services has completed a yearlong process of transitioning the email system from Mirapoint’s 4-year-old Webmail to Microsoft Live@edu, an online service hosted by Microsoft Exchange. The system includes Outlook Web App, the college’s new email service. Outlook provides 10 GB of email and calendar storage Beth…

Microsoft is continuing to eliminate references to its confusing-from-the-start "Windows Live" branding. The latest move: Microsoft has renamed the team formerly known as "Windows Live" to the "Windows Services" team, according to my contacts. The division of which Steven Sinofsky is President is now going to be called the Windows…

The more strategy sessions I conduct with clients, the more clearly I see that messaging is compromise. It may sound obvious, but when you decide to say one thing you are, by default, choosing not to say something else. Particularly when it comes to self-description, you cannot have your cake…

Kodak has announced a new enterprise capture system built on SharePoint 2010 and designed to help businesses automate workflow processes, known as Info Activate. The user interface has been kept deliberately simple to allow knowledge workers to simultaneously digitise paper documents and initiate a business process with a single click. The…

When Postbox 2 () debuted, I thought it blew the doors off Apple Mail and Microsoft Exchange, offering solid performance and an arsenal of first-rate email features. Since then, Apple’s Mail has closed much of the feature gap, integrating its own versions of Postbox features such as quick replies and Postbox 3 Postbox…

Universal Class, a division of Recorded Books has created more than 500 continuing education courses that you may access from home. Once you choose your area of interest you may just get started with video-based lessons, assignments and feedback from real instructors. The range includes such topics as resume writing, interview…

Last year, a tech writer in the US launched an experiment to see if Google was racially profiling users of its popular email service, Gmail. The experiment involved using totally clean email addresses which had racially charged names, sending particular emails with common titles (e.g. "I Need Cash") and then…