Microsoft Expected To Show Off Office 15 On Monday

Microsoft will soon answer a whole bunch of questions on its next version of Office, known as Office 15. The company is expected to take the wraps off on Monday, according to numerous reports. Although Office 15 has been in the hands of a select few testers, it hasn’t been in Will…

Posted on: July 14, 2012 9:00 am

Salesforce, Twitter Partner for Social CRM

Companies have long been using Twitter as part of their CRM strategy. Now, Twitter is getting the nod from an industry behemoth. Salesforce.com and Twitter on Friday announced a strategic global alliance to provide Twitter’s so-called fire hose of public tweets to Salesforce Radian6 customers. With the partnership, Salesforce…

Posted on: July 14, 2012 9:00 am

Microsoft patches Windows Live identity theft flaw

21-year-old Abdeljalil S’hit and 23-year-old Yasser Aboukir recently discovered a serious vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows Live service. The two young security researchers from Morocco responsibly reported it to the software giant even though the company does not provide any compensation for doing so. The vulnerability in question leveraged Cross-Site Scripting…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

1M Android Forum Users’ Data Hacked

(NEWSER) – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his mammoth patent lawsuit targeting a host of major web companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Aol, and Yahoo. Allen’s original lawsuit, filed in August, was dismissed because it was too vague, failing to name specific products or services. The refiling,…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

Cloud Telephony Pioneer CallFire Surpasses 50000 User Milestone, Sets Sights …

Company Delivers Customizable Software Solutions, Strong ROI Across Diverse Client Base Art of Political Campaigning SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire (www.callfire.com) today announced that it has surpassed…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

AWeber Announces Call Loop Integration for Simple SMS Text and Voice …

NEW Call Loop Integration Gives AWeber Users a Simple Way To Send Targeted SMS and Voice Messages To Optin Subscribers Delray Beach, FL (PRWEB) July 13, 2012 Call Loop, a mobile messaging platform, announced another email software integration designed to make voice and SMS text message marketing simple for small businesses. AWeber,…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

How to Quit Microsoft Outlook, Part I: Why I’m Jumping Ship

Although we’ve been together since the early days, I’m just not happy anymore. If I’m being I honest, I haven’t been happy for a long time. I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was when message indexing suddenly stopped working; my most recent emails no longer appeared in…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

Stay connected with these five messaging apps

Let’s face it, SMS is dead. Short Message Service, is slowly being replaced by free messaging services that tap on the data bundle in more developed worlds. While some telcos are trying to give away more free SMSes while decreasing the size of the data bundles, this likely isn’t sustainable….

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

NewsGator to integrate its SharePoint add-on with Yammer

NewsGator will integrate its social networking add-on for SharePoint with Yammer, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after Microsoft’s decision to buy Yammer, in a deal that some have speculated could adversely affect NewsGator. In a blog post Thursday, NewsGator Vice President of Products Brian Kellner announced that…

Posted on: July 13, 2012 9:00 am

View Only Your (Important) Unread Messages in Gmail

A couple months back I wrote about how to filter your Gmail inbox so it shows only unread messages. A while later, reader Patrick wrote to ask if one could further filter the inbox to show only those unread messages marked as "important." Yes. Yes, there is. I know this…

Posted on: July 12, 2012 9:00 am