RIM allows India to access messaging service

After a battle lasting almost two years, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has knuckled under to the Indian government, giving security forces in that country access to private instant messages. Experts say the change, first reported in the newsmagazine India Today, could lead to similar access for other spy agencies…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

ZipSend Lite

WinZip is famous for its file compression software, and chances are good that you’ve used it to shrink files before attaching them to an outgoing email message. But even when compressed, some files can still take up plenty of space, slowing down your emails as they travel. Enter ZipSend Lite,…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

What’s Coming in Microsoft Outlook 15

I make no apologies for my refusal to use Microsoft Outlook, but hundreds of millions of business users and consumers rely on this multi-functional solution every day. In fact, it’s the center of many people’s computing experience, period, the dashboard by which they manage their daily lives. For these folks,…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

Google updates Gmail’s ‘people widget,’ now includes previous images

When it comes to an ideal conduit for minor announcements, Google’s found a home on its very own social network. And this time, it’s telling the world about a small update to the people widget — that bar currently occupying real estate on the right-hand side of gmail.com. Along with…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

Technology: The Lumia 900 may light the way to Nokia’s revival

You can now see Indystar.com in a format specifically designed for your tablet. Experience the best local news, video, and photos in a beautiful finger-friendly interface. You will only see this screen once. You can always browse directly to Tablet.Indystar.com or Indystar.com depending on which version you want to…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

Microsoft Takes a Stand Against Stealthy Creeps at the Office

Consider yourself on notice: If you buy a counterfeit copy of Microsoft Office, your small business could end up infested by bodysuit-wearing creepers. That’s about as much as I can glean from this odd video that Microsoft created to raise awareness of something. Piracy? Spyware? Identity theft? It’s a bafflingly…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

Use Microsoft Office on your iPad with the OnLive Desktop app

When the iPad was released two years ago, it was incorrectly labeled as a "content consumption" device. Not by Apple, who had their own iWork office suite ready to go on day one, but by seemingly everyone else. The iPad wasn’t for "real" work, or so the digerati told us….

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

New secure messaging system to come to JB MDL’s 87th MDG

4/6/2012 – JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — The Air Force Medical Service is scheduled to begin patient registrations for the military’s online confidential secure messaging service April 9 at the 87th Medical Group. The messaging service, MiCare, has been shown to significantly reduce the number of phone calls between patients and…

Posted on: April 8, 2012 9:00 am

Leftist Israelis, Beinart’s boycott and the limits of negative messaging

When Peter Beinart proposed of a boycott of goods coming from the occupied territories, the most widely read responses came from American Jewsamong them Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe, Gary Rosenblatt of the New York Jewish Week and Barry Shrage of Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies. I wrote about the response…

Posted on: April 7, 2012 9:00 am

PC version of Street Fighter X Tekken will not have on-disc DLC, will be …

Posted by SFilp 53 minutes ago Street Fighter X Tekken is being released for PC on May 11, 2012 and will be using Games for Windows Live. Quite a few PC related questions have been asked over on the Ask-Capcom forums for both Street Fighter X Tekken and Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade There…

Posted on: April 7, 2012 9:00 am