Cotap, a messaging startup co-founded by two ex-Yammer executives, came out of stealth last year with a very specific aim: using the boom in smartphone usage to break down communication barriers between "knowledge workers" chained to computers and employees who are front line, out in the wild, and directly interfacing…
Earlier today Microsoft rebranded their cloud storage service, SkyDrive, to OneDrive. The rebranding was reportedly due to an ongoing lawsuit between Microsoft and a UK broadcasting company who felt that the names were too similar. In any case hot on the heels of the rebranding, it seems that Microsoft might…
Judging by some of the hysteria on Twitter and other social sites, the relatively brief outage of several Google services on Friday, including Gmail, nearly signaled the end of the world as we know it. Luckily for mankind, Google was able to restore its services within an hour, and much…
Google Inc. (GOOG) lost its bid for afederal appeals court review of a ruling that permitted alawsuit to go forward over claims the company violated wiretaplaws by scanning the contents of private e-mail messages. U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California,denied Google’s request for the appeal hearing…
Starting yesterday afternoon, the Hotmail account of California resident David Peck suddenly became a lot more popular. It’s the result of a bug in Google search, which The Verge was able to reproduce. Search for "gmail" and the first result has a link with a tagline about Gmail’s 10GB of…
Microsoft is partnering with GoDaddy, best known for its domain-name registration services, to provide scaled-down Office 365 packages for very small businesses. The partnership means Office 365 will be offered as GoDaddy’s exclusive email and productivity suite. For GoDaddy, which says it has 12 million customers, the attraction is being able to For…
On the heels of rebranding its "SkyDrive" cloud-storage service to "OneDrive," Microsoft may be poised to make some additional related branding and discoverability changes. Currently, consumers who want to use the free, Webified versions of Microsoft’s core Office apps — the suite known as "Office Web Apps" — need to…
Nearly fifteen years after its introduction, SharePoint is showing its age. User surveys and reports suggest that SharePoint 2013 is not cloud ready, is hard to use and lacks FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance when used in clinical trials. Rancho Cordova, CA (PRWEB) January 27, 2014 SureClinical announced today the publication of their newest…
The Paradise Valley Town Council dais at Town Hall, 6401 E. Lincoln Drive. (File photo) Paradise Valley Town Council is pondering what is and what isn’t appropriate when it comes to the usage of electronic devices like smart phones, PDAs and tablet devices by members of the governing body during public…
If Esso puts a tiger in your tank then what does TigerText put into your mobile? Thanks to an infusion of $21 million in Series B, the company hopes to create "industrial grade" SMS for enterprises, allowing employees at big companies to share data and messages in a secure, encrypted The…