Microsoft’s Office Web Apps have been around since 2010. Since then, they have slowly morphed from lightweight document viewers to relatively full-blown Office apps. Going forward, Microsoft senior product marketing manager Amanda Lefebvre wrote in a blog post last night, the plan is “to deliver Office Web Apps that people In…

A detection-avoiding advanced persistent threat (APT) has been found targeting a flaw in Microsoft Office to infect thousands of machines across over 100 countries. Security firm Trend Micro uncovered a campaign, codenamed SafeNet, targeting a known flaw in older versions of Microsoft Office on Friday. “The distribution mechanism the Safe campaign…

LOS ANGELES TIMES Monday May 20, 2013 1:43 AM Francine Orr | Los Angeles Times Mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp have caught on with such force that users are sending trillions of messages a year through them, avoiding traditional texting fees. SAN FRANCISCO WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley’s most buzzed-about companies, yet…

Whether you stay or go, it’s smart to back up important files, photos and other information from your computer and other electronic devices. Computers MICROSOFT allows users to store data in the cloud with SkyDrive. Once you create a free account, you can upload and view your stored files from…

Wacom the same company that brings Photoshop artists and big spenders products like the 24HD Touch announced today that it is making an addition to its more whimsical line of Bamboo products. Dubbed Bamboo Loop, the new iOS (and soon Android) app puts photo sharing and SMS together to create…

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…