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. [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface versions 1.7.003 and 1.7.004, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
Display most hours of the day in the Calendar
We received feedback about the Advanced interface calendar displaying “less content” than its Classic interface counterpart: some events are not displayed in the visible part of the Calendar. Of course, you [...]

CUME (Club des Utilisateurs de Micro-ordinateurs dans l’Education), founded in Rennes (FR) in 1984 is a computer users association which aims to gather people working in IT departments in schools and universities.
The activities of CUME are oriented towards three main themes:

New hardware and software platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux)
Educational use of networks, Internet, …
Educational use of [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface versions 1.7.001 and 1.7.002, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
Calendar: “Working week” view
We added the Working week view, so that you can focus on week days (Monday to Friday). This view is also useful on smaller screens. Click on the new tab to activate this view. If you [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface version 1.6.008, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
Automatic signature
In the Messaging Preferences, you could already set a signature for each of your sender addresses. From now on, you can also activate an automatic signature. The appropriate signature will be automatically inserted at the bottom of all new e-mails, [...]

You can invite group members or external contacts (from your private addressbook or a group addressbook) to an existing event by selecting the “Participants” tab. This is the best method to collect RSVP’s (ie I will attend or not from participants). The meeting will automatically be displayed in the group members calendars. External contacts will [...]

Because a file is quite large or because some servers limit the size of incoming e-mails to a very low value, sometimes you just can’t e-mail a file to someone. In other cases, the recipient’s mailbox is almost full and won’t accept a large file…
Instead of sending the Document in the e-mail itself, you can [...]

Not easy to find a date when more than two people are involved! The meeting poll feature (aka “meeting maker”) allows you to gather participants votes on a selection of dates and times. It is much easier to find a schedule that is convenient for all or most participants.

Participants don’t have to own a virtual [...]

ContactOffice is now a CalDAV server: you can read and write events from CalDAV software such as Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla Lightning (a plug-in for Thunderbird), Apple iCal and also iCal on iPhone (version 3.0 is needed). Note: Microsoft Outlook 2007 has no CalDAV features.
For other software, see http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html
The settings depend on the software. Please log [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 dropbox is a special folder in your private Documents, where the members of the groups you belong to may drop Documents. The dropbox is like a postbox: when someone drops a document, it becomes invisible to him.
This feature enables you to receive files directly in the Documents tool rather than by e-mail: reports, homeworks, [...]

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 [...]

Version 1.1.007 fixes a bug preventing all IE6 users to access the beta. The print function is now more reliable (still does not work for Safari 3.0 for Windows). Test the beta now.

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 [...]

Documents are now protected with an antivirus: when you add a document (using the Web interface or the virtual drive), it is scanned for viruses.
If the document is infected, it will be refused by the system. Thanks to this feature, you do not need to be afraid anymore to upload or download a group document [...]

ContactOffice integrates now the possibility to call your contacts with Skype or Skype-Out.
Enter the Skype address of a contact in the “Instant messaging” zone. In the Addressbook preferences, tick the “Skype links” box to activate them. A button will appear next to each Skype contact: this button gives the contact status: available, [...]

The release 1.1.004 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.1.004 introduces an alpha version of the calendars and the notes as well as several bug fixes. Enjoy.

UPD Contacts: Prevent creation of empty contact
NEW Contacts: clickable phone number (invoke send fax, send sms, SkypeOut depending on [...]

The release 1.1.003 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.1.003 is a bug fix release but it still includes the SMS broadcaster as a new tool.

FIX Mail: HTML drafts do not display the sender address in the list view
FIX Mail: refresh the preview pane if another folder is selected
FIX [...]

Version 3.2.0013 is in prod since 14 march 20:50

No spectacular new features but mainly updates and some bug fixes were added.
The most important changes are listed below.

FIX Mail - re-enable ‘unread’ messages count
FIX Mail - POP3 Fetcher: (yet another) content format error aborts the fetch preventing emails to download
FIX Mail - POP3 Fetcher: content format [...]

We are proud to announce the official opening of the beta release 1.1.000 to all ContactOffice users.
This new version features full email, documents, contacts and bookmarks management. Our legacy calendar tool is also included in order to provide our users with a real ‘usable environment’.
This beta will progressively evolve by adding new tools such as [...]

Extract of changelog (only ‘visible’ features are indicated here) :
3.2.009

FIX Addressbook: instant messaging address could not be deleted for a group contact
FIX Addressbook: postal address could not be deleted for a group contact
FIX Mail : mail signature is now 2048 characters
UPD Calendar : meeting date are more detailled
FIX Mail : email import [...]