Metalogix Announces Best Of Breed Sharepoint Showcase Awards Finalists

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, Metalogix and its Best of Breed Showcase Partners announced the finalists of the Best of Breed SharePoint Showcase Awards. Finalists have been selected based on their abilities to conceive, develop and deploy SharePoint tools and best practices that improve and enhance SharePoint deployments An impressive…

Posted on: February 24, 2014 2:00 pm

The Outlook 2013 slider and its potential effect on archive mailboxes

In September 2012, I speculated whether the change in OST format in Outlook 2013 and the introduction of the "slider" would have any effect on users. As it happens, the slider which allows users to decide how much of their mailbox should be cached in the OST for offline access When introduced…

Posted on: February 24, 2014 2:00 pm

Will WhatsApp go the Hotmail way?

At $19 billion, Ukraine-born Jan Koum-founded WhatsApp is a much bigger gamble for Facebook than the one that Microsoft took in 1998 when it bought Indian-born Sabeer Bhatia-founded web-based e-mail service Hotmail for $400 miillion. Hotmail was without fanfare folded into Outlook.com by Microsoft in 2012, with an unimpressive 350 Where is Facebook going…

Posted on: February 24, 2014 2:00 pm

BigContacts CRM Now Synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook

BigContacts, the leading provider of web based customer relationship management software for small businesses, announced today that its software now syncs with Microsoft Outlook. The software enhancement will allow users to seamlessly synchronize contacts, calendar events, tasks and emails between Outlook and BigContacts. With the BigContacts update the two systems…

Posted on: February 8, 2014 7:00 pm

Transitioning from Exchange 2003: It’s Harder Than You Think

Time is running out for organizations running Exchange Server 2003, but Microsoft hasn’t made it easy for those wanting to move away from the decade-old mail server. On April 8, 2014, Exchange Server 2003 will lose "extended" product support, just like Windows XP, which means there will be no more security Getting off Microsoft’s…

Posted on: February 8, 2014 7:00 pm

Google Glitch Sent Thousands of Emails to Some Guy’s Hotmail Account

On Friday, a Gmail outage led to widespread panic and confusion across the globe. That same day, an apparently unrelated glitch also caused thousands of emails to end up in the inbox of some guy named David S. Peck. (A Hotmail user, it should be noted.) Here’s what happened: users…

Posted on: February 8, 2014 7:00 pm

Gmail

Gmail is undoubtedly one of the most-used email platforms by people all over the world There must be a reason for it to be so popular. Definitely, it is popular for reasons more than one and this does not stop the Gmail team from trying to incorporate even more features…

Posted on: February 8, 2014 7:00 pm

The message about constant messaging: It can’t be good for your heart

Posted on: 4:40 pm, February 7, 2014, by Meryl Lin McKean, updated on: 05:47pm, February 7, 2014 KANSAS CITY, Mo. Call it "seeking behavior." We want that next message. We’re not unlike our ancestors, the hunter-gatherers, except we’re hunting and gathering on digital devices. "Our cortisol level rises each time we get that stimulus," said…

Posted on: February 8, 2014 9:00 am

Sick of Outlook? Here are our picks for the best alternative email clients

Despite the sheer amount of unfledged devotion Microsoft’s flagship e-mail client since it arrived on Windows computers in the mid-’90s, there’s more than just one capable offering on the market for sending and retrieving email. Desktop email clients are an absolute necessity in today’s digital age, designed to access email…

Posted on: February 7, 2014 7:00 pm

The next thing to break: Microsoft Exchange sync?

Sometimes an AAS news or flow item is as much about the community gathering data points as it is about delivering hard and fast news. That’s very much the case here, with many conflicting reports coming in from around the globe this week that Exchange sync with Microsoft Hotmail and…

Posted on: February 7, 2014 7:00 pm