Friday Aug 3, 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE

If you want to claim your own ideal Outlook.com email address then be quick - doors opened this week, and more than a million people have already grabbed their own inbox. Click here for more.

Also, if you're a savvy business owner/manager wanting to be smart about the way you run things, put next year's National Small Business Summit in your diary. Click below to see why.

Finally, a big welcome to anyone who visited our stand at CeBIT earlier this year. If you're new to the BIT newsletter, you'll receive three newsletters a week from us, with practical tech advice designed to help you.

William Maher
BIT (Business IT)

Microsoft reveals Outlook.com

By Staff Writer | Aug 2, 2012

Microsoft yesterday unveiled its new cloud-based personal email service Outlook.com, its first personal email client since it launched the ageing Hotmal service in 1996.

Tactics, battle plans for small business at Melbourne event

By William Maher | Aug 2, 2012

From Coles to the carbon tax, here are four big things on the agenda at the NAB National Small Business Summit in Melbourne.

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By Anthony Caruana | Aug 3, 2012

Does your smartphone or tablet need anti-virus or security software? Clearly, Sophos does as they've released a new app for Android users.

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By Anthony Caruana | Aug 2, 2012

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