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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Futurologist predict that by 2038 work will be more flexible and that employees will be more independent. When and where you work becomes less important, as long as you do what you need to do. Telework will be an important factor in this evolution. Not only because of the increasing traffic problems and [...]

The backend of the Beta version has been improved to speed up by a factor 6 the mail interface. Now, big mailboxes containing a large number of folders should get access to their mail dramatically faster. The loading of the account is also improved.

Please note that all services will be stopped this saturday morning around 03:00 CET until 08:30 CET for storage maintenance and upgrade.

The release 1.2.001 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.2.001 introduces numerous new features and enhancements such as :

Usage indicators
Auto zoom for calendar events
Slightly more contrasted design (still to improve)
Category editor
Categories (colors) are now applicable to an email
Import vCalendar/iCal attachments in the private calendar
Import vCard attachments in the private address book
Access 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 [...]

We’re thrilled to announce Luc Claes, ContactOffice Partner and Head of Research & Development, has been selected to speak at the JavaOne Conference.

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 opportunities. The conference will be held 6-9 May [...]

Yesterday at 22:24 - 23:54 CET a routing problem occured between Sprint and Level3 Amsterdam.
Since the ContactOffice service is hosted on servers at the Brussels Level3 site this routing problem might have caused access problems to our service for certain users. We do apologise for any kind of inconvenience you might have experienced.
It was [...]

The winners of the Yulbiz competition are known and have received their ‘advanced’ accounts. They seem to love our virtual office as can be seen in this post (french).
If you ever organize a internet or blogger event don’t hesitate to contact us. We love to support interesting initiatives.

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

ContactOffice allows you to check your e-mail with your favorite e-mail client with POP3 and/or IMAP4. So if you’re still using Microsoft Outlook for mail, you might want to take a look at Xobni (it’s a weird name, but it’s basically just ‘inbox’ spelled backwards).
Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that creates a sidebar in Outlook [...]

Check out this video of Joel Webber, co-creator of GWT.
If in lack of time, go to the 32nd minute.

It’s a nice endorsement of our work here at ContactOffice and a nice way to start this wonderful new year.
Congratulations to Luc and his team and best wishes to all our readers.

The release 1.2.000 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.2.000 introduces the group management, account preferences, stack panel parking, … and tons of enhancements and bug fixes. Enjoy!

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 [...]

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 [...]

The release 1.1.009 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.1.009 fixes a bug where some sub-menus will not display.

The release 1.1.008 of the beta is out (.fr users click here).

Beta 1.1.008 introduces the new tasks management tool and several bug fixes / optimizations. Enjoy.

NEW Tasks
NEW Glasspanel
NEW Auto-scroll in trees
UPD Better modeless dialog boxes
UPD Selection’s highlight
UPD [...]

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: [...]