The SynchroExpress software synchronizes ContactOffice with your computer. Your computer can then synchronize with mobile devices. This way, you can synchronize ContactOffice with mobile devices.
The latest SynchroExpress version (3.0 - build 3052) has been released and allows synchronizing ContactOffice with:

Outlook (all versions, including 2007)
Devices running on Microsoft Mobile (via Outlook)
Synchronize your mobile device with Outlook. [...]

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 [...]

Hi,
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 [...]

CloudStorm is a new style event set up by companies offering innovating solutions in cloud computing!
CloudStorm Brussels, September 2nd, Atomium Brussels, 16h00 CET
At CloudStorm, you will receive in 100 minutes an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing, followed by a mini expo and networking opportunity.
CloudStorm is an event where the real [...]

ContactOffice was in Lyon yesterday presenting its solution to the Pres de Lyon. The Pres de Lyon regroupes all universities and superior education institutions of the Lyon region (around 10 universities).
The presentation gives an overview of the major assets of our solution for Education:
- Flexibility of deployment (SAAS, licence,…)
- Ease of administration [...]

Arnaud Huret, CEO of ContactOffice, was invited as speaker at the Convergence Web conference organised last week in Namur by the AWT (Agence Wallonne des Telecoms). During his presentation, Arnaud explained how the Internet impacted the software industry during the last 15 years, from good old desktop applications to the rise of the SaaS model.
Saas, [...]

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 [...]

According to a recent Gartner survey called “User Survey Analysis: Usage Plans for SaaS Application Software, France, Germany and the UK 2009″, UK and France are leading the way in Saas adoption. Gartner found 71% of French respondents say their organisation currently uses SaaS for business applications, compared to 68% in the UK and 45% [...]

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.

According to a study conducted by MeriTalk, an online community that studies public policy and IT, the US federal government could save billions by moving to more open source software, virtualization and Saas. “With a grave economic outlook and a new administration in office, Federal agencies will be forced to do more with less,” the [...]

Wow, what an evening. Thanks a lot to Robin for organising this great get-together and of course Mike for coming to Ghent.
Thanks also to Bart Claeys for his super pictures of the evening.
Below our presentation:
ContactOffice: Online Collaboration and Messaging that kicks ass !
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: collaboration [...]

As announced in september, more languages are in the Pipeline. We are happy to announce that after French, English, Dutch, Spanish and Italian, ContactOffice now also is available in German. The entire application and commercial website has been translated and made avaible in the language of Goethe and Schiller.
The www.contactoffice.de url has also been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our public beta release has been significantly improving in quality and performance the past few weeks, in large part thanks to the great feedback we’ve had the pleasure to receive from our many users. The new ContactOffice is now more than stable enough to justify a permanent switch for the majority of our users, which [...]

The Belgian TNT Airways airline company relies on the virtual office ContactOffice for more than four years.
For more information, you can download the press release.
TNT Airways chooses ContactOffice

Very interesting: Mail.ru, which has been around since 1998, is apparently the first billion-dollar company in Russia. South-African media & internet group Naspers have acquired a 2,6 % stake in the company for $ 26 million, thus valuing the company at a whopping 1 000 000 000 dollars.

Congratulations!
Next up: Mail.be? ;)
Other ‘mail’ properties:
Mail.com - IDPG
Mail.org [...]

Organised by Vincent Battaglia, Yulbiz is a regular ‘blog & biz’ meeting, mostly for the French speaking blogosphere.
The second edition of the meetup will take place in Café Belga (Brussels) on Saturday the 15th of December. ContactOffice is sponsoring this cool meetup and is giving away 10 advanced editions free of charge.
The event is also [...]

We have officially released the Spanish version of ContactOffice after soft-launching a test version earlier this Summer.
ContactOffice can now be used in English, French, Dutch and Spanish, and the interface itself is also available in Finnish and Swedish. We’re working on adding more languages soon, stay tuned!
Adding more proof to the international nature of [...]

ContactOffice Group is currently hiring a passionate Java Developers for its Brussels-based development team. Join a leading Software-as-a-Service company since 1999.
Profile:

You’re passionate about software engineering
You have a strict OO approach
You master J2SE

Technologies:

Eclipse, Subversion, Ant, Maven
OODBMS, O/R mapping (JDO, JPA)
Javascript, CSS
XML, XSLT, JDOM
Conceptual modeling
Servlets, JSP, Google Web Toolkit
Lucene, JavaMail
jUnit

Send your résumé to Luc Claes, R&D Manager: [...]