portal in news
Support for Office 2000 comes to an end
News However, Office Online ended up becoming a resource site for Office users, rather than a software as a service (SaaS) portal. Support for Microsoft Office 2000 finally ended on Tuesday, 10 years after the productivity... [15 Jul 2009]
Microsoft CRM boards the Twitter train
News In addition, Dynamics CRM will get 'Portal Integration Accelerator' software. Microsoft has integrated Twitter functionality into its customer relationship management software. The company announced on Friday that its... [10 Jul 2009]
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News The service can be used within and between companies, with meetings set up using an online portal or Microsoft Outlook. Administrators can use the web portal to monitor their company's usage, while OBS... [03 Jul 2009]
Oracle unwraps Fusion Middleware 11g
News Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g provides reusable services components that can be used to add services such as social networking or productivity tools to various types of portal, including an intranet or web community. [02 Jul 2009]
BT virtually moves to the cloud
News VDC involves the virtualisation of servers, storage, networks and security delivered to customers via an online portal as cloud-based services. BT is about to formally launch a virtualised infrastructure service called... [19 Jun 2009]
Mobile barcodes going to Disneyland Paris
News The so-called Flashcodes - a French take on QR codes, which are big in Japan - will push visitors to a mobile portal containing a range of Disney info such as discount coupons, show times, videos and games. [12 Jun 2009]
Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali for £236m
News Tiscali customers will continue their Tiscali email addresses and the portal will continue," Dunstone said. Carphone Warehouse has agreed to buy Tiscali's UK broadband business for £236m, a move that will make it the... [11 May 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News Later this year Colp will launch the NFRC, a single phone contact centre and web portal that will handle all reports of online and other fraud. The City of London Police (Colp) force has launched £1bn-worth of computer... [25 Mar 2009]
20-year-old tech poses "risk" to British justice
News The report also found fault with the Xhibit system, a web portal that updates the public on a daily basis with hearing lists, court orders and results. Failure to replace a 20-year-old criminal justice computer system... [05 Mar 2009]
Office 14: Get ready for a first taste
News Microsoft already has a cheaper "deskless" option for companies that want to provide such workers access to both Exchange email and to a SharePoint portal server. In an interview this week senior VP Chris Capossela said... [04 Mar 2009]
Big Blue's skies are covered in Amazon's cloud
News Under the arrangement, users will have access to IBM's DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's Suse Linux operating system software. IBM announced... [12 Feb 2009]
What if Microsoft-Yahoo! had tied the knot?
News s front page had 61 per cent portal market share to MSN's 20 per cent, according to Hitwise. A year ago, on 1 February 2008, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told the world his company wanted to buy Yahoo! [02 Feb 2009]
Satyam customers told: Batten down the hatches
News A spokesman for BBC Worldwide, which worked with Satyam on its BBC Blast VJ Masher video portal for young people and has an ongoing services contract with the outsourcer, said: "There is only a very small amount of work... [12 Jan 2009]
2009: iPhone fights Storm for biz hearts and minds
News Mobile application developers and software vendors should create user-friendly, easy-to-use versions of email, calendaring, and corporate portal access applications to appeal to mobile wannabes and prepare to provide... [19 Dec 2008]
Lycos Europe barks bye bye
News Lycos Europe announced on Wednesday plans to shutter its portal and web-hosting business and find a buyer for three other areas of its business. It also plans to seek a buyer for other parts of its operation: its... [27 Nov 2008]