Microsoft Closes Oracle Outside In Security Holes With Critical Patch

Microsoft closed a series of security holes stemming from vulnerabilities in the code for Oracle Outside In as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday update. Tucked within Tuesday’s bevy of security bulletins is a critical update for versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. The vulnerabilities, however, are not within the code…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

WinZip Courier 4: First Take

Keeping files in the cloud is certainly convenient, but most of us still have plenty of local files and often need to send larger ones by email to people we’re collaborating with. If you’re working with a customer, you can’t rely on being able to convince them to use your…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

New cloud service offers Microsoft Office 2010 on the iPad

Are you looking for a way to get the real version of Microsoft Office on your iPad? Yeah, me too. There are plenty of Office clones on the App Store and Apple’s iWork suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) is a servicable option for natively authored documents. But what about that…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

Why I couldn’t connect my Windows 8 tablet to Exchange

As Windows 8 approaches and we all wonder whether tablets like the Microsoft Surface running it will gain the upper hand in the battle for dominance with the iPad, it’s easy to forget the so-called post-PC devices owe a huge debt of gratitude to Microsoft. Why? Because Microsoft licensed Exchange EAS…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

Microsoft Overhauls Hotmail To Step Up Its Social Game

Microsoft announced that it has given Hotmail a makeover by replacing it with a newly designed email client called Outlook.com. Like AOL, which announced a redesign of its email client last week, this is the first email redesign by Microsoft in years. The company hopes that the new product will…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

Why Hotmail changed its name to Outlook

Brian Hall uses multiple aliases and sweeps to organise his inbox and make space for tweets.Photo taken from techradar.com The Hotmail name has a heritage. It was one of the earliest webmail services and according to Brian Hall, general manager of what’s still called the Windows Live team,…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

Not so secure: Text messaging on iPhone can be hacked

San Francisco: A hacker Friday revealed a security flaw that he claimed could make Apple’s iPhone particularly vulnerable to text message cheating. The flaw has existed since iPhone was first launched in 2007, and is still not solved in the beta version of iOS 6, the next operating system for Under the…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

Gmail gains enterprise cred with added Postini features

August 17, 2012 CSO In moving its Postini messaging security into Google Apps for Business, the search giant is making Gmail a more attractive cloud-based option for Postini customers with on-premise mail servers, one analyst said. Google has been gradually integrating Postini’s security and compliance capabilities into Google Apps since acquiring the…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

ARMSTRONG: MIS Repave A Challenge

Round Two for the New Chassis: Heading back to Michigan International Speedway (MIS) for the second time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and for just the third time in his career, Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 98 EverFi Toyota Tundra team will once again have the confidence of Armstrong…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am

GEEK TO ME: E-mails are crashing MS Outlook

>> Question: Outlook 2010 has all of a sudden begun to freeze. Clicking on an email results in the screen going opaque and the [Not Responding] message atop the screen. Task Manager requires multiple attempts to shut it down, and it happens in both normal and safe mode. It appears…

Posted on: August 19, 2012 9:00 am