After 10 years of good service, the previous version just retired today as ContactOffice launched its new website. So long old chap, you did a great job.
From now on, users going to www.contactoffice.com will be logging into the Advanced interface, now selected by default. The Advanced interface benefits from all the new features and improvements [...]

MARSEILLE, December 7, 2009 - Together with ContactOffice leader of collaborative applications on the French market, the University of Marseille 3 has developed a contingency plan that helps maintain a link between teaching faculty and students, even in cases of pandemic influenza A / H1N1. A first in the French academic world.

The University of [...]

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Paris was the third stop for CloudStorm and followed a successful launch in Brussels in early September and an event in London in October.
The CloudStorm event gives its visitors the chance to quickly understand both technical and business benefits of cloud solutions directly from the vendor and to meet after their presentatoins. Once again, CloudStorm [...]

TLS (Transport Layer Security) is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks. It can be used for email, instant messaging, VoIP, web browsing, Internet faxing…
In order to increase security within ContactOffice’s solution, ContactOffice’s SMTP server now supports the TLS protocol for regular SMTP sessions, and authenticated ones. Let’s explain this last case: [...]

Data News magazine published last week an article about our latest business and technological developments. Expansion in Brasil, new versions in German and Italian, Doodle-like and implementation of CalDav… A very good overview of what we’ve achieved over the last few months despite the current economic meltdown. Check it out in French or in Dutch.

Jim Burleigh, CEO of SmartTurn, wrote a very interesting column on the website of IndustryWeek about the connexion between Saas and… the Swine Flu. Even though Saas can’t really help to prevent the spread of such infectious diseases, this model enables companies to better respond to shocks and disruptions that threat their business continuity when [...]

No, there’s no mistake in the headline: Microsoft itself now recognises that companies are now ready to start deploying and using hosted services for business-critical purposes. Check out this article for further details.

According to a study conducted by IDC, sales of SaaS are expected to grow at a rate of 40 to 42% this year and the harsh economic climate will probably strenghten this trend in the months to come. Check out the official press release for furher information.

We are extremely happy to announce the first partnership with one of the French official institutions in Brazil; the CenDoTec. CenDoTec, the French-Brazilian Technical & Scientific Documentation’s Center, has chosen ContactOffice to boost their internal communications and collaborative works.
CenDoTec is mainly divided in three activity’s poles:
- The Campus France, an administration service [...]

We have updated the anti spam rules leading to a significantly higher catch rate. You should not see Europharmacie and alike spams anymore. Enjoy.

The leading french Business portal ‘Le journal du Net’ just wrote a dossier about the market of Virtual Offices. ContactOffice gets a very positive review and is presented as the pioneer and leading European player in this market.

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 [...]

The news has been spreading like wildfire all over the web: online media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook are all buzzing about the public $ 44.6 billion bid by Microsoft to acquire all of Yahoo!’s assets (or $ 31 per share).
While everyone is wondering what to name the married couple - Mahoosoft, Microsoft!, Microhoo, Yahoosoft!, Yasoft, [fill [...]

Patrick De Schutter, co-founder and CEO of ContactOffice, was interviewed by web enthusiast Philippe Nieuwbourg. As of this morning, the audio interview is up at Econotique (French only).

We are pleased to announce a new ContactOffice customer : PME-KMO is the monthly Belgian magazine for SME leaders, published in 30.000 copies per month.

Are you interested in a free test of ContactOffice via the Club PME-KMO ? Surf to their site in order to subscribe to the “Virtual PME” club.
You will be able [...]

Reinforced by the bag of feedback from the Office 2.0 Conference, we have decided to pursue one of our goals by expanding our presence into the United States, more specifically to Silicon Valley (where else?) as reported by Datanews (link in Dutch).
As one of the key players in the online office space (which is [...]

L’atelier, a daughter company of BNP Paribas, active in tracking and studying new technologies was present at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Out of the more than 50 companies it selected ContactOffice for a video inteview (in french) and a dossier.

It’s been more than 2 weeks since ContactOffice went to San Francisco to attend the annual Office 2.0 Conference. We presented our new public beta and met a bunch of interesting people, ranging from industry analysts, members of the press, competitors, bloggers, Office 2.0 pundits and potential customers / business partners. We basically had a [...]

Listen to one of the co-founders about ContactOffice and the Beta launch (french - 4′ 30″).

Exciting news!
We have just launched our new public beta, after months of development and a lot of coffee. We issued a press release to announce the release which you can find below.
We’re going to present the new version (v1.1.006) at the annual Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, which we have agreed to sponsor.
Don’t [...]

From the website:
What is Blognation?
Blognation is a network of professional bloggers brought together to report on the latest Web 2.0 technology, mobile and enterprise start-ups from around the world, but only written in English.
One or more editors cover a country, and I’m proud to be a member of the team, as blogging reporter for Belgium [...]

Article in French from Tendances, Belgium’s leading business magazine :
L’agenda ContactOffice a bien grandi
Some time ago the editor of Tendances has written about the ContactOffice virtual office. In this article he states he really is surprised about the leap forward we have made in a short period of time and explains the functionality.

Article in Dutch from Belgian weekly news magazine “Knack” :
Is ContactOffice de ideale agenda voor u?
Very positive article about our virtual office. In case your wondering… they do consider ContactOffice as “the ideal calendar” for collaborative use.

Dutch e-business Magazine E-merce about ContactOffice : Maandelijks honderdduizenden gebruikers ‘weboffice’
The people @ E-merce are confident that the market for virtual offices will continue to grow. Even the next version of the Firefox browser will offer new functionalities to facilitate synchronization between mobile devices and online applications.

It’s obvious that video on blogs and websites is becoming the trend for 2007.
Jean Michel Billaut, a famous French Internet pioneer, has posted an interview with Patrick De Schutter on his blog.

The network for entrepreneurs Join2Grow.biz published a video interview with ContactOffice co-founder Patrick De Schutter.
You can read a transcript of the interview here.