Central Desktop, a Sharepoint-like SaaS collaboration platform for the enterprise, is launching a new tool that allows for cloud-enabled document collaboration for Microsoft Office users. Central Desktop’s tool allows users to simultaneously co-author Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in real time, as well as open and save files directly into the cloud. Central Desktop for […]
Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin
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Microsoft officially released Silverlight 4 yesterday. Microsoft has also released a candidate of Expression Blend 4 (compatible with Silverlight 4) this week. The tech giant says that Silverlight is now installed on nearly 60% of Internet-connected devices worldwide. In just five short months, Microsoft has gone from beta to the full release of Silverlight 4, […]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by admin
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Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is announcing significant news today: the startup has just raised $15 million on Series C funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners participating. This brings Box.net’s total venture funding to $29.5 million. As part of the deal, Rory O’Driscoll, […]
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by admin
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There’s no question that Google is setting its sights on taking some of Microsoft’s marketshare in the productivity suite space. Last year, Google announced a new plug-in that syncs Google’s enterprise versions of Apps, including Gmail, contacts, and calendar, with Microsoft’s Outlook. And Google just acquired Docverse, an application lets users collaborate directly on Microsoft […]
Posted on March 18th, 2010 by admin
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Google’s recently announced $25 million acquisition of DocVerse represented one saga of an ongoing war between Google and Microsoft over dominance in the productivity suite place. Today, Israeli enterprise software company Mainsoft is launching a Docverse-like plug-in that may up the ante in the battle. Harmony is launching free plug-ins that bring Google Docs documents […]
Posted on March 9th, 2010 by admin
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday unveiled its Hohm website designed to help residential power consumers save money and reduce their environmental impact by conserving energy. Microsoft has been selling technology to the energy industry for years and is now targeting the home power market as the weak economy forces consumers to find […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company also introduced an entirely new add-on for its Outlook product that we haven’t heard a peep about since. That’s about to change soon. The product, dubbed Outlook Social Connector, essentially aims to make Outlook more social by […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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Microsoft’s new browser ballot screen, which is supposed to randomly scramble the positions of the top five browsers, instead gives Google’s Chrome the best chance of landing in the preferred first spot, an IBM software architect said today. “This was a rookie mistake,” said a professor, who works for IBM and has a degree in […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons. Enjoy, Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, ISP, ITCP/IP3P, […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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Mobile is the new “e” with more mobile phones than people wearing shoes. The implications are tremendous impacting business, industry, governments, academia, media, society, and globally. Here are some great resources. Microsoft Presspass link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/ Official press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-15MWC10PR.mspx Interview with Andy Lees http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/feb10/02-15WindowsPhone7.mspx Video covering the Windows Phone 7 Series design http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/videoGallery.aspx Charlie Kindel’s […]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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