Deadline looms for iPhone iOS 4 users needing Exchange Online access

Deadline looms for iPhone iOS 4 users needing Exchange Online access

Exchange administrators should relay a message to their Apple iPhone iOS 4.0.0 users that
unless they update their devices by July 29 they will lose access to Exchange Online-based
email and calendaring.

Apple released an update for the iPhone iOS 4.0,0 operating system this week to fix serious performance issues with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) that caused heavier than normal loads on servers and sync issues with email, calendar, and contacts.

Mike Crowley, an Exchange administrator for a major U.S.-based Microsoft integration company, said every Exchange deployment he has done recently, from Exchange Server to Exchange Online via the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), has included iPhone users in some capacity, so this is an important update.

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Firm scrambles to patch vBulletin software flaw

Firm scrambles to patch vBulletin software flaw

A serious flaw in software widely used to power online discussion sites could allow hackers to harvest reams of personal data, the BBC has learned.

The flaw in a specific version of the vBulletin software allows anyone to easily access the main administrator username and password for a site.

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Thankfully CF doesn't use this version

£35m a year for the Business Link website? Really??

£35m a year for the Business Link website? Really??

Even if the Business Link website was any good, how is it possible to spend that much on it?

Opinion seems to have been split when new business minister Mark Prisk announced the Government was pulling the plug on Business Link: although many business owners have long considered it a total waste of taxpayers’ money, others sing its praises. But we suspect that whatever camp you’re in, you’ll be as horrified as us to learn that its (fairly unimpressive) website has apparently cost the taxpayer an extraordinary £105m over the last three years – despite getting just 1m visitors a year. As they say online: OMG.

It’s a huge sum, for what isn’t even a very good site. According to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones, the costs break down like this: £6.2m on strategy and planning (meetings, essentially; they must be racing through those chocolate Hobnobs), £4.4m on design and build (is the company...

DIY apps: Google's secret weapon in the battle of the smartphones

DIY apps: Google's secret weapon in the battle of the smartphones

Now you don't have to be a geek to create an app...

It looks like the war between Google and Apple over the top spot for mobile platforms is about to hot up: the search company has unveiled new software which allows users to develop their own apps for its mobile operating system, Android. Best of all, Google’s App Inventor for Android doesn’t require any knowledge of programming language – which means ordinary people will suddenly have the power to make their own mobile apps. There’s no doubt the number of Android apps will rocket – but is playing the numbers game a winning strategy in the fight for smartphone users?

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New Microsoft Technology Associate Certification Now Available

New Microsoft Technology Associate Certification Now Available

REDMOND, Wash. – July 7, 2010 – Every spring professor Keith Kelly watches students graduate from the Computer Information Technology program at Northwestern Michigan College and make their way into the work force. The college is a participant in the Microsoft IT Academy, a membership-based organization that offers IT training and resources to schools. This year, Kelly is hopeful that even in his state’s depressed economy, his students have a shot at finding employment in IT and software development — two of the few fields that are actually growing. But he fears a college-issued degree alone isn’t necessarily enough to land a job. “I think employers really want to see both degrees and industry certifications,” says Kelly.

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Compliments to SGUK for the find

-Ken

PC Zone magazine is to shut after 17 years

PC Zone magazine is to shut after 17 years

Britain's first ever magazine dedicated to PC gaming is to cease publication after 17 years.

PC Zone magazine, the sometimes anarchic and irreverent monthly journal, is set to close after 225 issues on 2 September 2010.

Future Publishing, which owns the title, said the closure comes in the wake of a strategic review of its PC games portfolio

At its last audit, PC Zone was only selling about 11,000 copies a month.

The magazine started life in a rather dank and dusty basement in Central London.

It rose from the ashes of Zero, a monthly multi-format games magazine that, like PC Zone, was full of off-beat humour, adolescent jokes and, on occasion, courted controversy.


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Microsoft adds Facebook support to Outlook

Outlook Social Connector integrates social networking site into email program

Microsoft has launched Outlook Social Connector, a tool that allows Facebook users to view the social networking site as they use their emails.

The plug-in allows people to view status updates, wall posts and photos alongside emails, as well as add friends using the Outlook People Pane. Updates are available in real time, but there is no option to update information through Outlook at present.

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Print v iPads: books win!

The speed race, at least. Books are faster and 'more relaxing' to read, but iPads and Kindles are 'more satisfying', finds new study

E-book readers might be heralded as the future of literature but a new report shows that it's still quicker to read the old-fashioned print version of a book.

The study, by Jakob Nielsen from the Nielsen Norman Group, gave 24 people a short story by Ernest Hemingway to read – chosen because "his work is pleasant and engaging to read, and yet not so complicated that it would be above the heads of users".

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Google vanishes Android apps from citizen phones

Google vanishes Android apps from citizen phones

Google has reached out over the airwaves and removed a pair of applications from users' Android phones, saying the two apps violated its terms of service.

Like Apple, Google has a "kill switch" that allows it to remotely remove mobile apps that have already been installed by end users. The tool is mentioned in the terms and conditions for Google's app store, the Android Market, as the press noticed when the store debuted.

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Thanks to Josiahb for the link.

Apple's iOS 4 beams into unprepared world

First Look Apple's much-vaunted iOS 4 arrived Monday morning a few minutes after 10am Pacific time, and nearly an hour and a half later, we were finally able to complete downloading and installing Cupertino's latest and greatest mobile OS onto our iPhone 3GS.

Were its marquee features worth the wait — meaning both the 10-plus weeks since it was announced on April 8 (and renamed on June 7) and the painfully long installation time?

Yes and no. We first took a look at multitasking and the new folder interface, and the "no" part of our answer has more to do with third-party developers than it does with Apple.

Remember that multitasking — one of, if not the, most anticipated features of iOS 4 — is app-specific, meaning that developers need to add multitasking capability to their apps before users can take advantage of this new feature.

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