Microsoft announced yesterday, 10 May 2012, the Middle East and Africa winners of its new creative storytelling contest, Microsoft Advertising Story Awards. Ogilvy South Africa’s Michelle McKenna, Taryn Scher and Philippa Heal won the brand category and Tal Schweiger, copywriter and Nir Hersztadt, art director, from McCann Erikson Digital Israel Launched in…

We reveal the pick of the hundreds of new features in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and a guide to the controversial new Metro UI As Windows 8 creeps ever closer to completion, we now have a firm idea of what is and isn’t going to be in the most ambitious This…

KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung has announced the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango powered Omnia M handset for the UK, a larger-screened alternative to the Samsung Omnia W. Offering similar specifications as the Focus 2 that was announced for the US earlier this week, the Samsung Omnia M features a 4in Super AMOLED Buyers…

In my blog post last week, as well as showing a cool video of Ubuntu for Android in action, I asserted that open source makes the perfect foundation for innovation. A sequence of news releases about open source desktop productivity suites have shown up over the last few weeks to…

Microsoft fixed 23 security flaws across all versions of Windows, Microsoft Office, .NET Framework, and Silverlight, as part of May’s Patch Tuesday release. Of the seven bulletins, three were rated as "critical" and four as "important," Microsoft said in its Security Bulletin summary released May 8. All but two bulletins addressed Highest…

KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung has announced the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango powered Omnia M handset for the UK, a larger-screened alternative to the Samsung Omnia W. Offering similar specifications as the Focus 2 that was announced for the US earlier this week, the Samsung Omnia M features a 4in Super AMOLED Buyers…

In an IT environment of MacBook laptops, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads and Droid devices, why would any enterprise stick with Microsoft Outlook for email and collaboration? That very question prompted a 60-day pilot test at New England Biolabs, an Ipswich, Mass.-based molecular biology company. Given the growth of Macs and…

DENVER, May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –CipherPoint(TM) announced today significant new capabilities that expand the availability of the company’s transparent encryption technology for SharePoint users. These new features and software modules include: CipherPointCS(TM) content scanner: CipherPoint has released a free content scanner, CipherPointCS, that allows SharePoint administrators and IT security administrators…

Computerworld – A Windows developer, upset at the likely demise of Windows Live Writer as part of Microsoft’s move to retire the Live brand, has launched an online petition drive to save the tool. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it was retiring the Windows Live brand, and will replace it with…

CIO – Whether you use Google’s Gmail service at work or for personal purposes, you probably have a good handle on the basics: organizing your contacts, sending emails, setting up folders and more. But if you’ve mastered the basics and are looking to increase your Gmail prowess and productivity, here’s…