As had been rumored last week, Microsoft has officially purchased Sunrise Atelier, a startup that makes a popular calendar app for basically every…
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Report: Microsoft bought calendar app Sunrise for $100M
Microsoft’s been buying up mobile app startups recently to go along with CEO Satya Nadella’s “mobile-first, mobile everywhere” mantra, and its latest…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s cross-platform Office push includes revamped Outlook
If you’re a fan of Microsoft services and you have an iOS or Android device, today’s your lucky day. The company has…
Read MoreTutanota releases iOS encrypted email app after notifying NSA
The German encrypted email service Tutanota has released its iOS app, weeks after its Android app came out. The delay in the…
Read MoreMicrosoft ties services into new African e-commerce portal as Internet.org app spreads
Microsoft is making a concerted effort to promote its services to people in emerging African markets, as part of a new e-commerce ecosystem aimed at the unbanked. Meanwhile, Facebook's Internet.org portal is opening up in Kenya.…
Read MorePretty Easy Privacy project aims to make encryption easier for regular people to use
pEp is a user interface scheme that's designed to help users judge how secure their conversations are, and make them more secure with as little knowledge as possible.…
Read MoreMicrosoft brings a business-only Outlook app to Android
One of the themes of Satya Nadella’s short tenure as Microsoft CEO so far has been an increasing focus on bringing Microsoft’s most…
Read MoreFinding the path to post-desktop email that works
We're still tethered to our desktop email clients and our desks to handle much of complicated emails. How can we improve the medium to make it more mobile?…
Read MoreHow free online storage got to be so ubiquitous [infographic]
Remember when your email was capped at 2 MB? It wasn't that long ago.…
Read MoreFruux’s cross-platform iCloud rival gets team-friendly
The tool, which synchronizes contacts, calendar entries and tasks across most platforms, is now explicitly targeting business users with the new Fruux Team version.…
Read MoreClippy’s dead, but KeyRocket resurrects the good bits
What use are hundreds of shortcuts if you don't know them? Berlin's Veodin has come up with a free tool called KeyRocket, which trains users in the way of the shortcut with more relevance and less irritation than Microsoft's hated old Office assistant.…
Read MoreBetterCloud raises $2M to make Google Apps better
New York City-based startup BetterCloud has raised $2 million for its quest to bring better business-oriented management, reporting and other capabilities to Google Apps. The funding comes from BetterCloud CEO David Politis and unnamed angel investors.…
Read MoreFacebook hasn’t fixed Friend Finder, says German group
Facebook has been slapped down again by the German authorities over privacy problems with its Friend Finder feature -- but while reports suggest the social network has fixed the problem, the consumer group that launched the complaint says it is still not happy.…
Read MoreXobni raises $10M ahead of mystery product launch
Contact management startup Xobni has raised a $10 million round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The company verified the funding and said it was coming from a commercial partner that is investing in Xobni as part of its agreement.…
Read MoreWhodini: Extracting contact gold from messy inboxes
What if a product could sort through all the messy chatter and lunch invitations that fill a company’s inboxes to pinpoint exactly who has expertise in what, and then automatically created a searchable directory of profiles? That’s what start-up Whodini is aiming for.…
Read MoreOutlook Attachment Reminder: Never forget to include an attachment again
If you use Outlook and often forget to include attachments in your emails, check out CodeTwo's Outlook Attachment Reminder, which scans the text of outgoing email for certain keywords. If one of the keywords is present and an attachment is not, it pops up a warning.…
Read MoreHarmon.ie adds social collaboration tools to Outlook
Harmon.ie 3.0, is an Outlook add-on that's adding new social and collaboration features. The new "people" tab in the Harmon.ie sidebar lets users see colleagues' profiles and availability, displays an activity stream, and lets workers call, chat or videoconference directly.…
Read MoreXobni’s Gadgets Bring Third-Party Collaboration Tools to Outlook
Xobni, a popular productivity add-on for Outlook that automatically displays additional information about email contacts, has announced that it is making available "gadgets," third-party additions to Xobni that will let well-known collaboration tools like Yammer, Chatter and Dropbox become an integral part of the Outlook interface.…
Read MoreScrubly Wants to Help Clean Up Your Address Book
If you're anything like me, you probably have several email address books, each with a daunting number of duplicate, conflicting and junk entries. Scrubly is an automated online tool that can help clean up Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail address books.…
Read MoreHow to Deal With “Bacn” Email Without Using Gmail’s Smart Labels
Gmail's Smart Labels, which can automatically label many types of "bacn" email, is a great feature and works really well, but if you don't use Gmail or aren't comfortable with Google analyzing your emails, there are options for dealing with bacn in desktop email clients:…
Read MoreNEO Pro Makes Outlook More Productive
Dealing with our overloaded inboxes takes time; anything that makes the email experience more productive has the potential for considerable savings for businesses. NEO Pro 5.0 is an add-on that promises to make the Outlook experience more organized and productive.…
Read MoreClearContext Personal Makes Outlook More Productive
ClearContext Personal, an add-in for for Outlook, wants to help make your inbox time more productive. It automatically files unimportant emails into categorized groups, taking it out of your inbox. It's all done completely automatically, with no need to set up complex inbox rules.…
Read MoreSync Outlook and Remember the Milk With MilkSync
Up until now, if you wanted to sync tasks between popular to-do list management app Remember the Milk and Outlook, you've had to rely on third-party apps and plugins. But now there's MilkSync for Outlook, a new app from the makers of Remember the Milk themselves.…
Read MoreLiaise Exits Beta, Offers Free Licenses to WWD Readers
Liaise, an email-based project management and collaboration system, is now available publicly, and its developers are offering 100 free one-year subscriptions to WebWorkerDaily readers. Liaise is intended for heavy email users who collaborate with many different people both inside and outside their organization.…
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