In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Inter­op­er­ability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its propri­etary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been acces­sible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my under­standing is minimal at best), but […]

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Well, maybe not obsolete, but definitely less integral for the mobile profes­sional. I started using Dropbox roughly six months ago and have been consis­tently impressed with the service, single tweet of discontent aside. Dropbox syncs your files between computers on which you have their light­weight software installed. It creates a folder where you can store […]

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The Big Four audit firms — Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Price­wa­ter­house­C­oopers, and KPMG — along with the number five and six firms — BDO and Grant Thornton — have joined forces to call for signif­icant changes to the way public companies report their results. They propose businesses report realtime financial data via the Internet, rather […]

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