In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people “perceived” their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. Of the…

Following Google’s rollout of a new Hangouts service for mobile and Google+, the company is giving Gmail users the opportunity to replace Google Chat with Hangouts integration. But heavy users of Google Voice may want to hold off on the switch, because the new Hangouts feature kills your capability to…

We have all experienced that awful feeling after hitting the ‘send’ button and realizing a copy of a sensitive or confidential email has inadvertently gone to the wrong person. Usually, the situation is simply embarrassing. Not so for Maria Fernandes, a Mississauga employee of healthcare communications company Marketforce Inc. In…

Shirley Springer wrote that she has nearly 400 messages in her Outlook Express “Inbox” and asked if she can move them all to a USB flash drive. Yes. Both Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail allow users to drag messages from their inbox (or any other OE/WLM folder) to another location….

Microsoft has rolled out an important update to its Outlook.com, adding support to Google’s chatting service, Google Talk. This means users can chat with their Google contacts within Outlook.com. When you open the messaging section in Outlook.com or SkyDrive, you’ll see a message that guides to set up…

Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile marketing company that delivers campaigns via text, video and picture messaging services. Terms of the deal were not…

Derrick Rose has mail. Lots of mail, actually. More than Tom Hanks, even. And if you’ve ever wondered what lies inside that treasure chest of an inbox of his, look no further. Beyond the Buzzer tweeted a totally fake, but equally believable picture of what the Chicago Bulls superstar’s inbox…

While Microsoft doesn’t seem too interested in adding offline support for the Office Web Appsthe web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNoteit does in fact support this capability in Outlook Web App, the web-based email, contacts, calendar, and tasks management solution in the business versions of Microsoft Office 365. Enabling…

Microsoft’s disdain for Google doesn’t extend to all of its rival’s products. In a rare bit of cooperation, Microsoft’s Outlook.com is giving users of its free email service the option of logging into Google Chat to exchange instant messages and engage in audio or video conversations. The tie-in announced…

Gmail is already pretty great, but Google just announced a couple of new features to make it even better. For one, Google added some “quick action” buttons designed to help you better handle your email and accomplish tasks on your to-do list. For example, if your friend invites you to…