Microsoft blasts “government snooping,” pledges to enhance encryption

Recent reports of "government snooping," including unauthorized Internet surveillance, has drawn an indignant response from Microsoft. Writing on the company’s blog, Microsoft corporate affairs executive Brad Smith said he is "alarmed" by these revelations and pledged that Microsoft will enhance encryption efforts for its products and services. A report from…

Posted on: December 7, 2013 9:00 am

Google Lets You Download Gmail and Google Calendar Data

Google today rolled out a long-requested feature: being able to download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data. The new feature means you can now back up your emails and calendars, or just export them temporarily so you can import them to another service. Today’s additions let you…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 2:00 pm

Google now lets users download copies of Gmail, Calendar data

Google is opening up the archives to its users, making it easier for them to search and find emails and calendar events from years past. Users of both services will be able to export a copy of Gmail and Google Calendar data for both backups and moving the data to…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 2:00 pm

Revealed: The hidden feature that lets you UNSEND a Gmail (but you have to be …

Handy tool is hidden away among other settings of Gmail’s Labs sectionIt gives users a 30 second window of opportunity to unsend emails By Sarah Griffiths PUBLISHED:06:32 EST, 5 December 2013| UPDATED:09:46 EST, 5 December 2013 Everyone has experienced that sinking feeling after sending an email to the wrong person, clicking on ‘reply all’, or…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 2:00 pm

What question would you ask Microsoft’s Exchange development supremo?

I need your help. Next Friday (December 13), I shall interview Perry Clarke, Microsoft CVP for Exchange development (in other words, Perry is responsible for every bit of code written for Exchange, both on-premises and cloud). I have known Perry for many years and have quite a few questions to I’m…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 2:00 pm

Qumu launches Qumu Video App for SharePoint 2013

Qumu, the business video platform provider, has announced the availability of the Qumu Video App for Microsoft SharePoint 2013. The Qumu Video App for SharePoint builds on Qumu’s award-winning Video Control Center platform to deliver a seamless, integrated enterprise video solution within SharePoint that can scale globally for even the largest…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft assures international business customers on spying

Microsoft Corp pledged late Wednesday to fight in court any attempt by U.S. intelligence agencies to seize its foreign business customers’ data under American surveillance laws, one of a series of steps aimed at reassuring nervous users abroad. The maker of the world’s most popular computer operating system said…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 9:00 am

How to undo in Gmail

When you send a no-take-backs emailmaybe an admission to a secret crush, or accidental reply-allthere’s an instant pang of regret. It feels like there’s no going back. Meet Gmail’s Undo Send feature, a lifesaving little hack buried in the Gmail Labs settings. It gives you a 10-second window to "undo"…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 9:00 am

Hackers Compromise 2 Million Facebook, Twitter and Gmail Accounts

More than 2 million accounts have been compromised from popular sites such as Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn after malware captured login credentials from users worldwide, according to a new report. According to web security firm Trustwave, hackers have stolen login usernames and passwords across various sites in the past…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 9:00 am

Google (finally) lets you download your Gmail and Calendar data, here’s how

Rejoice, Google users, for today, the company announced new data-saving capabilities that will finallyfinally!allow you to export and back up your Gmail and Google Calendar data without needing to turn to third-party software and arcane workarounds. Doing so’s dead-simple: Just head to Google’s data download page, sign into your…

Posted on: December 6, 2013 9:00 am