By acquiring Yammer June 25, Microsoft revealed two important things: first, it has finally awakened to adding a tried-and-true social network as a major focus of its catalog; and second, SharePoint isn’t the socially aware work collaboration offering it had once purported it to be. For the last five years, Microsoft…

I love Gmail; however, I’m not exactly in love with some of the choice usability/interface features Google insists upon. Perhaps the most annoying "feature" of all has been the apparent inability to mark all unread messages as read. Now, if you only ever have one page of unread emails…

When Emily Davis bought her first smartphone, all of her friends had BlackBerrys, so she got one, too.More Related to this Story The 23-year-old, who recently graduated from business school at the University of New Brunswick, kept in touch with all of her friends through Research In Motion Ltd.’s…

Summary: It’s difficult to see how Yammer will improve SharePoint, or what value it will add for customers. It’s just another tool in an increasingly chaotic Microsoft toolbox. "So what improvements do you see Yammer bringing to SharePoint?" I asked Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud collaboration vendor Box, at a…

A long term project to migrate to a SharePoint 2010 intranet at the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has required a major focus on the fundamentals of information management. BNZ is one of the largest and oldest banks in New Zealand. Founded in 1861, BNZ operates 200 branches and has over Mick Gasson,…

Microsoft today quietly rolled out its new, browser-based versions of Word, Excel and other Office programs for consumers, expanding its widely used productivity applications to the web. The Office Web Apps will let people create, edit and share documents for free online, through the advertising-based Windows Live service. A version…

Microsoft Confirms $1.2 Billion Yammer BuyMicrosoft will add Yammer to the Microsoft Office Division, placing the cloud social service side-by-side with SharePoint. Microsoft will add Yammer to the Microsoft Office Division, placing the cloud social service side-by-side with SharePoint. Rumored for more than a week, Microsoft’s plan to acquire Yammer became…

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering splitting its business in two, separating its struggling handset manufacturing division from its messaging network, The Sunday Times reported. Shares in the company were down 7.34 percent, to $9.14, in mid-day trading. RIM, which last month hired JP Morgan and RBC Capital to look at…

Google today updated the iOS version of its Gmail app, which adds full support for Apple’s Notification Center. The search giant also added the ability to send messages from alternate email addresses and improved the log-in experience. With the Notification Center update, iOS users can now opt to have their…

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