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Medical firm avoids Exchange nightmare with outside help
International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the...
Zeus variant tricks Facebook, webmail users into exposing card details
A new variant of the Zeus trojan tricks users into exposing their debit card details by displaying rogue offers when they visit Facebook, Gmail,...
About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's...
Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine
Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social...
5 Hidden Gmail Tricks for Power Users
Whether you use Google's Gmail service at work or for personal purposes, you probably have a good handle on the basics: organizing your contacts,...
Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange?
In an IT environment of MacBook laptops, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads and Droid devices, why would any enterprise stick with Microsoft Outlook for...
At Interior Department, Google Apps will co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now
Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain...
After legal tussle, Google beats Microsoft for large US contract
The U.S. Department of the Interior has picked Google Apps to provide cloud-based email and collaboration applications to about 90,000 staffers,...
Tuesday's Gmail outage broader than originally reported
Google underestimated the scope and consequences of the outage that hit Gmail on Tuesday.
Tuesday's Gmail outage broader than originally reported
Google underestimated the scope and consequences of the outage that hit Gmail on Tuesday.
Yahoo's new CEO lays out strategy for smaller, more focused company
Yahoo plans to cut about 50 properties and refocus on its core business, CEO Scott Thompson said in an earnings call on Tuesday.
Google fixes Gmail outage that affected millions of users
An outage that prevented millions of users from accessing Gmail on Tuesday has been resolved, according to Google.
Microsoft gets large India order for its cloud suite for education
Microsoft said it has gained in India its largest cloud customer ever, where the company is providing Live@edu, its free cloud services for student...
How to Tell If an Email Is a Phishing Scam
Email phishing scams have grown more sophisticated since they first began popping up in corporate inboxes in the 1990s. Early phishing emails were...
Many Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition
Many companies that rely on Office Live Small Business (OLSB) for their e-mail and website hosting are complaining that a required transition to...
Microsoft says SharePoint isn't late to enterprise social networking
Although enterprise social networking (ESN) products that replicate Facebook-like and Twitter-like functionality for workplaces have been around for...
Microsoft says SharePoint isn't late to enterprise social networking
Although enterprise social networking (ESN) products that replicate Facebook-like and Twitter-like functionality for workplaces have been around for...
Microsoft restores access to phones that couldn't access Skype
Microsoft has fixed a bug that made it impossible for about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones to log into the popular IM, VoIP and...
Analysts: Microsoft didn't cut Office 365 prices just to be nice
In announcing price reductions for Office 365 this week, Microsoft said its cost of running the cloud suite has fallen and that it wants to "pass on"...
Microsoft cuts the prices of some Office 365 plans
Microsoft has lowered the prices of some editions of the Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite, which was launched about eight...