Google Apps gained a lot of momentum primarily because users found it to be an easy, low-cost way to share documents across the Web with people both inside and outside the company. That created a unique level of functionality that Microsoft really couldn’t match until it started making Microsoft Office…

VMware has updated the Zimbra collaboration platform it acquired in 2010, turning it into a cloud-ready service for email and messaging in a direct challenge to Microsoft’s Exchange tool. Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0, available as a beta now with the full release due later this quarter, also features closer integration with VMWare…

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, House Republicans are indeed certifiable. Wednesday will be the 31st time they have tried, and failed, to repeal all or part of President Obama’s signature health care law. But in an…

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Q. I have been using Outlook 2003 for many years and I like it quite a lot, but I have a specific problem. I’m trying to sort my emails by Subject or by Name and it doesn’t work. Could this be because I have too many email messages? Right now A….

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –Cooliris, Inc., the world leader in immersive visual experiences and the creator of the native Android Gallery application, today announces the launch of LiveShare for Android, the free messaging application. The all-new version of LiveShare for Android eliminates the consumers’ expensive The new…

The popular alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook, the Mozilla Foundation’s Thunderbird has finally reached its end of active development stage. This is according to a blog post by the Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker. What implications does it have for more than 20 million users all over the world? Thunderbird Managing While…

BMW aims to make its luxury sports cars more like a mobile office by adding Nuance’s Dragon Drive! messaging service to several models later this year. With a compatible smartphone paired with the service activated in their car, BMW drivers will be able to dictate emails and text messages rather…

Email addresses and passwords of 6,700 civil servants and private-sector staff published online An online document on a hacker’s forum seen by Siliconrepublic.com contains what appears to be the email addresses and passwords of government and private-sector workers, including members of the Revenue Commissioners, Bank of Ireland Life, IBM, AIB, and…

Knights Email, the email service all UCF students are required to have, has finished undergoing its transition from Hotmail to Outlook. The transition occurred because Microsoft is transitioning its higher education email partner institutions from the Hotmail platform to Exchange through the Outlook Web App, Vice Provost and Chief Information…