MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WALA) – Starting Wednesday, texting, emailing and instant messaging while driving will become illegal in Alabama, with violators facing fines and possibly higher insurance rates. Republican Rep. Jim McClendon of Springville persuaded lawmakers to approve legislation in April that made Alabama the 38th state to ban the practice….

So much to-do has been generated around preventing unauthorized mobile devices from accessing sensitive corporate resources, but what happens when security researchers turn that model on its head? What happens when the theoretical attackers use unauthorized, spoofed servers to connect to mobile devices? This Thursday at Black Hat, an Australian…

Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the first significant tangible gear from a year-old multicompany effort, called the Open Compute Project, to…

Microsoft revenue rose slightly but due to several one-time items, it posted a net loss during its fourth fiscal quarter, when the Windows division’s sales fell 13 percent. Revenue in the quarter ended June 30 came in at US$18.06 billion, up 4 percent year-on-year but below the $18.13 billion expected by The company posted…

I’ve made no secret of my distaste for Microsoft Outlook. That said, it’s a required piece of software for a lot of business users — and even a desirable one for some. Recently I’ve made peace with the program, as uninstalling and then reinstalling it (along with the rest of…

A new development has once again hinted at the possibility of Microsoft’s flagship productivity software, Office 2013, making its way to the iOS platform. According to a new report by 9to5 Mac, a job listing posted by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earlier this month advertised for a software engineer on the Outlook…

Google has acquired iOS and Mac email client Sparrow, with the team behind the popular app heading to Google to work with the Gmail team. "We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience," Dom…

Which cloud company profits most from Microsoft Office 365 and hosted software like Exchange, SharePoint and Lync? The obvious answer is Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). But my number two guess is Parallels. Admittedly, Parallels isn’t profiting "directly" from Office 365 and Microsoft’s other hosted applications. But Parallels does enjoy a big "indirect" Also,…

One of the new features of Office 2010 (yep that’s 2010) was the Outlook Social Connector. This addon brought with it the ability to display social network information within Outlook itself. It took a little while for developers to get on board but last time I checked you could download Well, Office…

CECOM deploys SharePoint portal to boost collaboration By Defense Systems StaffJul 27, 2012 The Army Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM) is using a portal to centralize its data, streamline applications and connect its more than 13,000 employees worldwide, reports GCN, a sister publication of Defense Systems. The agency anticipates that the Microsoft SharePoint portal, which…