SWIFT should not be singled out over Iran Belgium
BRUSSELS Feb 16 (Reuters) – Belgium-based SWIFT,which operates the bulk of global cross-border payments, shouldnot be the only company required to comply with sanctionsagainst Iran, Belgium said on Thursday. Telecoms operators such as BT and Internet serviceproviders such as Google, Microsoft’s andHotmail, should also be included, the foreign ministry said…
Rackspace buys Sharepoint consultancy
Network World – Cloud services company Rackspace has purchased SharePoint911, a consulting firm for SharePoint users. SharePoint is the Microsoft product used by businesses to collaborate on and manage projects. Since 2008, Rackspace has hosted SharePoint in its suite of cloud offerings in a software-as-a-service model. 2011’s hottest M&As in the…
Lies, damn lies and Microsoft spam-filter stats
Microsoft is crowing about a study that it says shows Hotmail having better spam filtering than Gmail or Yahoo. Really? If that’s the case, then there’s been a huge turnaround in Hotmail’s spam-filtering accuracy. Is there any Devil in the detail? Of course there is, outlined here in The Long…
SmartVault Offers New Plug-In For Outlook
Cloud-based document storage and sharing service provider SmartVault has released the SmartVault Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, allowing business users and accounting professionals the ability to send, receive and manage documents securely inside of Outlook. The SmartVault Plug-in creates secure links for sending files and embeds them in email messages, instead…
Microsoft gets busy with 58 fixes in first Exchange 2010 SP2 rollup
Hot on the heels of the Exchange Server 2010 SP2 release in December, Microsoft announced the availability of the first rollup update that includes a whopping 58 fixes. Some administrators and IT managers may be surprised at both how quickly the rollup was delivered as well as the sheer number of fixes…
Cloudmark To Address Next Generation Mobile Messaging Security Threats at …
Chief Technology Officer Jamie de Guerre and Thompson Reuters Correspondent Georgina Prodhan to Discuss the Market Trends and Reveal What Operators are Doing and How They Can Protect Their Networks and Subscribers from New Messaging Threats Mobile World Congress 2012 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security,…
Tips to bond with Ribbon interface
To remain compatible with the majority of the businesses I deal with, I have to use the Microsoft Office suite including programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint. Naturally, in my role as an IT consultant I often have to teach others how to use it too. I don’t…
Mimecast Continues Rapid Growth with 50% Revenue Increase
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Mimecast(R), the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced record revenues for the nine months to December 31, 2011, up almost 50 percent on the previous year. With revenues up to $36m This rise in revenue has…
OpenText Unveils Advanced Capture Solution for Microsoft SharePoint
Allows Organizations to Quickly and Efficiently Digitize Paper Documents, Automatically Import Enterprise Content into SharePoint Libraries and Workflows WATERLOO, ON, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTC) today announced OpenText Capture for Microsoft SharePoint, a software solution that allows organizations to quickly and efficiently capture, digitize and This new…
Study shows that Hotmail email accounts have less spam then Gmail
Hotmail has hired Cascade Insight consultancy to conduct a contest for ranking the spam-stopping capability, of the three major web email providers. Hotmail happens to be the largest provider of e-mail in the world and has a bad name for having spam-filled inboxes, where this hire is an effort to…