On Friday night 04 Oct 08, between 02.12 am and 04.48 am CET, we faced a general power down. There was a scheduled maintenance at Level3, our Internet Gateway in Brussels. We are sorry about this inconvenience. All services were restored around 08.00 am CET.

A central repository for documents, ContactOffice offers a CIFS / SMB client to access your documents stored on remote

We are happy to announce that after French, English, Dutch and Spanish, ContactOffice now also is available in Italian. The entire application and commercial website has been translated and made avaible in the language of Dante.
The www.contactoffice.it url has also been opened. This new language version has been released in order [...]

Our new beta interface based on Ajax technology keeps on improving and is looking oh so slick. One of the recent novelties is the possibility to create multiple signatures for your email. This allows you to have a signature for each emailaddress that you use.
In addition you can now use a [...]

ContactOffice has just been awarded a price at the prestigious WebAwards. The price celebrates our new User Interface that offers a user experience similar to that of a traditional software client BUT with all the advantages of the SAAS model.

ContactOffice obtained the mention « Standard of Excellence » in the category « Application Service Provider ». The [...]

ContactOffice has just released in beta an integration of the Zoho tools including Writer, Sheet and Show. They are Web-based tools and allow you to create, edit, and access your spreadsheets, docs and presentations files from anywhere without the need of having these applications installed on your pc. All documents edited by these tools [...]

Inspiral is the UK’s leading supplier of specialist business support to the creative and digital industries (CDI) sector. Since 2004 they’ve helped over 500 people turn their ideas into thriving businesses.
Inspiral has choosen ContactOffice to provide to their start-up and SME virtual office.
Their knowledge of the creative and digital industries is second to none. With [...]

TMAB is organising a Software as a Service Congres on 16 Octobre 2008 in Brussels. We’ll be there and giving some specific customer cases.
When? On Thursday 16 October 2008 from 13.30 am until 16.40 pm followed by a networking closing coctail and contact with the partners of the congress
Where? Business Faculty in Brussels
More about [...]

Data News has recently published an article about the best Virtual Office solutions available on the market and we are happy to say their verdict is more than positive ;-)
Among different solutions, Data News has selected solution such as ContactOffice, Google Doc, Microsoft Office Live and Viadesk. Here is a summary of the article.
Data News [...]

Dear users,
As you may have noticed the ContactOffice application is continuously being improved in line with your request or wishes as well as with our vision of the ideal online collaboration solution.
The upgrades of our application happen around every two weeks without you ever having to do something. This is one of the major [...]

The Virtual Office of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 is celebrating its 5 years!
Exactly five years ago in July 2003 the virtual office of the University of Lyon 2 was launched.
It was our first customer in the education sector and they took a bet by choosing a then unknown collaborative solution in order to build [...]

Dear ContactOffice users,
We want to thank you and more than 500.000 other clients for trusting ContactOffice to store your data.
The amount of data that our clients wish to store on our secure servers is constantly increasing. We are therefore pleased to inform you that our free and paying subscriptions will receive a major increase [...]

Having problems with a shared document that is in a format that you cannot open. Or… are you on a machine that does not have the right software to open a specific document of yours?
Well as from now you can use our .PDF converter in the documents tool. You just need to [...]

ContactOffice annouce a new partnership with the canadian compagny De Marque.
De Marque is specialized in education by developing and marketing educational media, content and applications. After winning an important contract in France with six universities of Toulouse, ContactOffice and De Marque have decided to join their expertise to support the sale of the ContactOffice virtual [...]

Dear users,
We released this morning the capability for all users to easily switch from the classic interface to the new Ajax/GWT interface. This new interface provides a brand new way to present your data, including drag and drop features and much more. See previous posts for more release details.

ContactOffice win a new contract with the multimedia developer and publisher De Marque. Six new universities of South of France (Toulouse) choose ContactOffice virtual office solution intended for all their students and staffs who represent in all 80 700 users. The market rises about a half-million euros.
For more information, you can download the press release [...]

ContactOffice has participated at the “Assises 2008″. This event was organized by the CSIESR at the “La Grande Motte (Hérault) in France”.
A large attendence was present to assist to the ContactOffice presentation about the integration of Collaborative Services in Didital Learning Spaces (DLS) and their new AJAX interface for the educational sector. This presentation [...]

ContactOffice at the “Assises 2008″ the 12, 13, 14 and 15 May 2008. ContactOffice is really proud to participate at this event organized by the CSIESR at the “La Grande Motte (Hérault) in France”.
The CSIESR is an association gathering the informatics centres of higher education establishments and research. Their goals are to [...]

The release 1.2.003 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.2.003 is minor release, introducing :

Access to WebDAV remote document stores
Wrong access rights for group documents
Authorization exception while accessing members directory in addressbooks

As we mentioned in a previous post our very own Luc Claes was selected to Speak at JavaOne. The presentation will take place next week May 6-9 in San Francisco.
JavaOne is a leading industry event; a 4-day conference filled with technical sessions, hands-on labs and lots of educational (Bookstore, Java University, …) and networking [...]

Five universities of the South of France have selected the ContactOffice virtual office solution for their students and staff. For ContactOffice, that represents more than 70 000 new users today and 120 000 in 2009.
For more information, you can download the press release (only in French for now)

Today, everyone is talking about the strategic shift Microsoft announced today - which had been coming for a long time - with the introduction of Live Mesh, a new Windows Live platform for syncing files and, eventually, applications across different devices.

From TechCrunch:
“Mesh lets you set up a virtual desktop online, and connect different computers to [...]

ContactOffice recently acquired a 30 TerraBytes storage system. This is the first step towards significantly increasing the space offered to our users. Payings subscribers will see their capacities increase by a factor from 2 to 5 times what they have today. Free subscribers are not left aside and will also benefit from a [...]

Some of you probably noticed that when sending a SMS a strange number appeared as sender number (caller ID). This is fixed now. Your recipients will now see your mobile number allowing them to directly reply to your message. Enjoy !
Norte : please make sure that your mobile number is defined in your profile [...]

IT executives recently converged on Computerworld’s Software-as-a-Service Conference (SaaScon) in Santa Clara, CA (March 25-26), to share their experiences and best practices about implementing SaaS solutions in their businesses.
On day two of the event, research agency Saugatuck Technology presented some preliminary highlights from its most recent SaaS research program, including results from their January 2008 [...]

Did you know that your Virtual Office, ContactOffice, could be personnalised and be used as an Intranet without much investment ?
Kamer van Koophandel in the Netherlands decided to use ContactOffice as an Intranet for their organisation. Kamer van Koophandel is a Dutch organisation that manages the trade register. The Chamber’s other tasks are to provide [...]

The release 1.2.002 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.2.002 introduces new features and enhancements such as :

Wiki
Info panels
Threading for emails (only for paying subscriptions)
Categories on docs, notes, contacts, bookmarks, …
Right click or Ctrl click for Mac users to access contextual menus
View document as PDF (.doc .ppt .xls .txt + openOffice extensions)
Import [...]

We are pleased to announce a new ContactOffice customer: OpenWeb is a Belgian company specialized in the new technologies of information and communications.
They have chosen ContactOffice in order to add a new service to their customers and prospects. They will sell the virtual office ContactOffice under their own brand name.
Visit their site : http://www.openweb.be

ContactOffice will participate to the Salon Entreprendre the 19th and 20th March 2008, the meeting for SME. ContactOffice is very proud to participate at this event organized by New Bizz Partners. You will have the possibility to meet our staff members and ask for demonstrations, case studies, tests accounts, and simulations for your organization. This [...]