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Kif Leswing Feb 11, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- good morning redmond

It’s true: Microsoft officially acquires mobile calendar app Sunrise

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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Mobile
Kif Leswing Feb 4, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- sunset for sunrise

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…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Jan 29, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Out of Android beta

Microsoft’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…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Jan 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Agencies must be warned

Tutanota 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…

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Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Nov 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft 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.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Oct 6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pretty 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.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kif Leswing Jun 11, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft 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…

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Mobile
Gordon Mangione, Tipbit Jan 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Finding 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?…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Rani Molla Feb 27, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

How free online storage got to be so ubiquitous [infographic]

Remember when your email was capped at 2 MB? It wasn't that long ago.…

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Technology
David Meyer Feb 4, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Fruux’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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer May 22, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Clippy’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.…

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Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow May 10, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

BetterCloud 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Mar 8, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Facebook 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.…

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Europe, Technology
Ryan Lawler Feb 27, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Xobni 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
jessicas1 Nov 17, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Whodini: 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Jul 5, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Outlook 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
chamilton Jun 28, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Harmon.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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
chamilton May 3, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Xobni’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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Apr 26, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Scrubly 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Mar 11, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

How 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:…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Jan 13, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

NEO 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Nov 16, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

ClearContext 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Simon Gibson Oct 27, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Sync 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
chamilton Sep 14, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Liaise 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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Technology, Work & Collaboration

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