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 Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.
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 legalSTOR is a legal firm BPM (Business Process Management) that has been developed and marketed by a joint venture between EcoOffice Solutions and Metrofile. This new system was launched in Pietermaritzburg on Friday.
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 Domain names are the identifier of all websites on the Internet. If you want to be found on the Internet – you need a domain name. So if you are called Johnny Walker Attorneys, you need a domain name like www.johnywalker.co.za or www.jwalkerattorneys.co.za or something similar. This is great for all traditional websites – and for creating websites that people are going to view on PC's or laptops. But what happens when someone tries to look at your website on a mobile phone?
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 AVID, the developers of the well known “FireFly” legal costs calculator for smartphones, today announced a new version which supports the latest iPhone and Android devices."Since 2003, AVID FireFly has been the de-facto standard for legal cost calculations in South Africa and the release of FireFly for iPhones and Android devices ensures that FireFly continues to run on ninety-nine percent of phones on the market,” said Barry Swart, CEO of AVID.
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Find your iPad or iPhones after theft |
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 Prey, which is used to locate your notebook computers, is now available for iPhones and iPads at the App Store. Open source, for free, tested and ready to kick some burglar butt. Check it out.
Read more on the Prey web site...
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 LAW is pleased to announce that George municipality has been added to the electronic LAW Rates solution.
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 January 2012 will go down as a landmark month for South Africa’s growing technology sector with the launch of our first ever ‘localized PC tablet device’ The first time the world saw a ‘tablet’ was in January 2010. And here we are, just 24 months later and South Africa is about to give birth to its very own ‘lean-back-and-enjoy’ personal computing device.
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 As you may be aware, ABSA recently expressed concerns about the security issues posed when the same attorney attends to both the transfer of a property and the registration of the bond. To reduce the risk, they have insisted that they are able to monitor the progress of both the bond and transfer matters (and the cancellation of the existing bond, if applicable).
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 Two weeks ago Microsoft announced the public trial of Microsoft Office 365 in South Africa, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes. Office 365 combines Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync online at predictable subscription
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The exciting news is that LegalSuite is currently working with SARS to allow you to apply for Transfer Duty Receipts electronically from within LegalSuite. This would mean that all the information already captured in LegalSuite will automatically be sent to the SARS website to populate the fields on their website required to generate the TD forms on-line.
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 O-Tel Telecom, Licensed National Telecom Service Provider, has partnered with OJO Africa to offer terrestrial video calling, a first in South Africa. O-Tel’s Video Calling service was launched over breakfast and lunch on 3rd November in Sandton, hosted by OJO Africa, part of the Blue Label Group.
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 Sabinet, a leading facilitator of access to electronic information, launched the Beta version of its new Legal Search Platform during March 2011 and had the official launch in April 2011. The new platform provides clients of Sabinet's legal products and services an easy-to-use search interface with options to further refine the results of complex searches, adding immense value in terms of ease of access to specific information.
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 Research In Motion (RIM) and Cell C announced that the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet is now available in South Africa from Cell C.
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Law Rates released an enhanced version on Monday that boasts a more intuitive and manageable application further improving ease of use.
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 XpressDox recently released Version 4 of its ground-breaking document assembly system to beta testers."For the first time, browser access to templates is included with the Desktop product for Microsoft® Office Word. This means that XpressDox users who wish to run templates while away from the office - for example, while on a business trip or while working from home, can now do so without having to purchase an expensive web-server version of the software.
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 Progressive attorneys throughout South Africa are arming their Estate Agent clients with the Firefly costs calculator from Avid Software. "Now that smartphones have become ubiquitous in South Africa, virtually any Estate Agent can run Firefly," said Barry Swart, CEO of Avid Software.
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Stop people "Replying to All" in Outlook |
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 The primary function is to add a button to several of the Outlook ribbons to prevent people from doing a reply-all to your message, or forwarding it (using a facility built into Outlook & Exchange which is really lightweight compared to using IRM machinery, but which is not exposed in the existing UI). Additionally, it includes a check for email goofs such as omitting attachments or subject lines.
Read more at the Microsoft Research site...
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GhostConvey Collaboration |
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 Korbitec collaboration on the transaction hub is the act of working together on a property transaction by allowing all participants to share notes and documents as well as follow the progress of a particular transaction. How does it work?
Read More at GhostDigest..
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 Durban - 18 October, 2011 - Microsoft's long-awaited Office 365, which will start trialling in South Africa later this year and become commercially available in early 2012, will make it easier for thousands of local companies to get and use the same business productivity solutions used by major enterprises.
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 Customise client communications and build your company brand. You can now add company branding to your client communications when sending emails and faxes to clients from LAW Transfers.
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 SearchWorks is delighted to announce the release of 8 new search types which were released on the 1st of February 2012.
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 Emerald Consulting, a subsidiary of software and services provider DVT, recently launched a complete solution for managing the FICA compliance process. The company is renowned for providing solutions and services for the legal sector.
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 A long road to testing the new Windows Phone 7 operating system, but at the end of our road together, I’m a little sad to see it go.
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 Argos is the concise, reliable way to get a handle on your document expenses. Argos helps you measure, control, and recover the cost of printing, copying and telephone calls. Our fresh approach to expense tracking keeps your team accountable - without slowing things down. Ease-of-use is the hallmark of Argos.
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 Research In Motion (RIM) makes it even easier for customers to manage conference calls on their BlackBerry® smartphone with the release of BlackBerry® Mobile Conferencing version 2.0. This innovative and popular free app includes a number of enhancements, such as the ability to automatically turn an email thread into a conference call using the user’s conference bridge details.
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As a result of the changes to the Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 (Amendment Act 11 of 2008) with effect from 1 March 2011 all South African practicing attorneys are now included in the compliance requirements of the act as "Accountable Institutions".
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 Research In Motion (RIM) announced two new smartphones based on the BlackBerry® 7 operating system (OS) - the BlackBerry® BoldTM 9790 and BlackBerry® CurveTM 9380.
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 Legalite is a practice management solution for the small legal firm which enables it to effectively, efficiently and profitably manage its, clients, matters, staff workload and bookkeeping at the same time being fully integrated with separate trust and business accounting records.
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 Research In Motion has announced BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 - a new RIM-hosted online service for midsized businesses and enterprises that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones, and allows organizations to self-manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. An open beta for the service is launching today in over 30 countries.
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 One of the most frustrating tasks in any law practice is to have to manage heaps of legal documents in an orderly manner. Nothing could be more time-consuming and annoying than having to search through stacks of documents and emails in search of a piece of information. To this end Lawpac has developed a document management solution to enable attorneys to manage their cases in an efficient manner.
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Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich, Galaxy Nexus |
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 Google gave its customers two launches in one when it unveiled its highly anticipated Ice Cream sandwich operating system, along with an all new smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus, which it says "takes the smartphone to beyond smart". The phone, developed in conjunction with South Korean technology giant Samsung, is also the first designed to run Android 4.0.
Read more at Memeburn.com....
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Rocket Matter annouces Trust accounting for their cloud product |
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 BOCA RATON, FL – March 25, 2010 – Rocket Matter®, the leading cloud legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to mid-sized law firms, today announced the addition of legal trust accounting and upgraded billing functionality to their signature product.
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 Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) announced today the BlackBerry® Client for Microsoft SharePoint, delivering the most advanced mobile SharePoint solution on the market. The BlackBerry Client app provides a deeply integrated and intuitive mobile experience for users together with the market-leading manageability and security of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, providing a secure and cost-effective solution for businesses and government organizations.
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 Lexpro's Online Accounting program will allow users (Bookkeepers / Attorneys) to access their Accounting data from anywhere in the country, even the World as long as there is Internet access available. Currently the online accounting program is based on the "Lexpro Lite" version (a basic accounting package consisting of all the transactions you will need to have on a day to day basis) that is already available and it is for that reason that the online program is more aimed to smaller firms.
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Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Note review |
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 Samsung has shown off the Galaxy Note at IFA 2011, a huge 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED handset which comes complete with a stylus called the S Pen. We grabbed some time with it on the show floor just after Samsung's press conference took place.
Read more at TechRadar....
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Real time RSS messaging for LegalSuite customers |
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LegalSuite has recently added the RSS messaging system to the program. This application is designed to give LegalSuite direct communication with all of their clients on a "real-time" basis. This feature will improve the overall LegalSuite experience and ensure that customers are always kept up-to-date of the latest developments and notifications The RSS feed is user based, so that each user can adjust how they want to receive these messages. For more information visit www.legalsuite.co.za or call 0860 711150.
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 Waterloo, On - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to launch 5 new BlackBerry® smartphones based on the BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS). RIM, in conjunction with carriers and distribution partners around the world, is rolling out two new BlackBerry® BoldTM models and three new BlackBerry® TorchTM models, all running the powerful new BlackBerry® 7 OS.
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LegalSuite now offers SearchWorks searches within the application |
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LegalSuite is proud to announce that after months of development and testing it is now integrated with SearchWorks. A number of our clients have activated this service and they are enjoying the benefits of using SearchWorks from within LegalSuite. For more information call 0861 711150 or email visit www.legalsuite.co.za
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 O-Tel Telecom today announced the immediate availability of its Fax over IP service, a value added service for its 1Cloud Hosted PBX Service. The service is ideal for users looking for extended fax services to ease their daily office tasks without the hassle of dealing with telephony hardware. The O-Tel FoIP service allows organizations to take advantage of the O-Tel infrastructure to process all fax transmissions via the cloud-based hosted service.
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Credenza Practice Management |
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 Introducing Credenza, a new product that expands Microsoft® Outlook into a legal practice management solution. Organise everything in Outlook by client/matter file, track billable time, record phone call notes, manage documents, check conflicts and much more. Credenza helps you be better organized and capture more billable time. It works inside Outlook, so you don't have to change any of what you are doing. Download a Free Trial version today to see for yourself: Download a Free Trial version today to see for yourself: www.credenzasoft.com or contact them at
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