offers integration with Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 as one of the major enhancements. They have also upgraded their mobile UI and added apps for Android and iPhone to simplify access.   The release policy is to not require customers to upgrade with each new release, as all releases within a major version, such as the 3.0 MORE >>

With some notable exceptions, the mobile advertising ecosystem has been pretty broken. After about three minutes, my daughter was happily texting my mobile number. And therein lies one of the big problems (and opportunities) in the mobile advertising world. Microsoft bought AdECN. But first, to the problem. MORE >>

Similarly, Google can crawl the “public pages” of Apple’s iTunes store on the web, but all the value creation in the mobile iOS appworld is behind the walls of Fortress Apple. ” Same for Amazon with its Kindle universe, Microsoft’s Xbox and mobile worlds, and many others. Mobility. MORE >>

took notes while the other panellists were speaking: Nicky Wakefield , head of human capital at Deloitte, Philip Cronin , general manager of Intel Australia, and Oscar Trimboli , head of the information workers group at Microsoft. Future of business Mobile Social media Social networks Technology trends 10:50 – 14:00. 18:20 – 19:00. MORE >>

With these companies in a paralyzing economic death spiral (and their new media brethren, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo, in continued strategic sclerosis), Google has a unique opportunity to become a new kind of branded media company. Tied to #3 above, Microsoft will gain at least five points of search share in 2009, perhaps as much as 10. MORE >>