Major League Soccer was struck by tragedy Sunday, as Columbus Crew midfielder Kirk Urso died at the age of 22. No cause of death was immediately announced. According to The Columbus Dispatch, Police were called to a bar in Columbus at about 12:50 a.m. Sunday morning, and Urso was taken from…

Software giant publishes step-by-step guide to help ease Hotmail users through the Outlook.com changeover. By Caroline Donnelly, 6 Aug 2012 at 12:24 Microsoft has issued some further guidance to help ease Hotmail users through the transition to Outlook.com, after many admitted struggling with the switchover. The firm announced Outlook.com as the…

Mimecast is set to upgrade its cloud-based Mimecast Email Security service for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. The enhanced email security service contains new features and functionality designed to address end-user autonomy, Mimecast says. MSPs and VARs have a growing list of cloud-based email security services from which to choose. Some…

August 28, 2012 – LIVE AT 11:00 AM PT Optimized Messaging and Collaboration through Cloud-based Email Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Time: 2:00 PM EDT Join the growing number of companies leveraging the cloud to optimize their email environment, help reduce expenses, preserve their application investment and simplify their IT requirements to free up valuable resources….

Last week, attackers socially engineered Apple tech support to hack into a Wired writer’s iCloud account, wiping out the journalist’s iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Air, as well as compromising his Gmail and Twitter accounts. Mat Honan recounted the gory tale in a blog post: "At 4:50 PM, someone got into "The…

Content Writing King has announced the addition of a new Windows Live account to their social media campaign. This campaign is to promote their website with blog post content creation (PRWEB) August 05, 2012 In very recent times, Content Writing King made yet another of many additions to their famed social media…

It’s been around a month since I looked at how mobile messaging apps are challenging social networks, and the difference between the two just got a little narrower after Line a Japan-built app with more than 50 million downloads worldwide announced the introduction of two features that are core to The…

On Friday, I wrote about how Gizmodo’s Twitter account was hacked. It turns out that this was Apple’s fault. Let’s take a step back. Over the weekend, it quickly became clear that the bigger story was how the whole thing started. First, former Gizmodo employee Mat Honan’s iCloud account was…

The winner receives a free class from the new Mindsharp SharePoint for Business Series. Mindsharp, a global SharePoint education company specializing in computer-based and instructor-led training, is pleased to announce that Maree Percival is the winner of the "SharePoint Video Clip Summer Sampler" contest. The contest was held to celebrate…

Office 2013 is touchscreen ready and cloud friendly, and it adds bold new twists to the Microsoft Office franchise. On Monday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined what he said was the "biggest most ambitious Office" update to date. For the desktop, Office 2013 delivers a host of smart updates to Word, Ahead…