Friday - June 26, 2009
Three months after unveiling its Google Voice application, Google unveiled a limited public roll-out on Thursday. The application's home site says the tool is available by invitation only. Anyone can sign up for an invitation, though they must then wait for a go-ahead from Google. Google has added several features to the application since March. It's not yet clear how Google will monetize the service, but there has been speculation that Google might sell ads. Asking for an invitation to participate in the limited roll-out is easy, though it appears one will have to wait on Google.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to save money and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing the company's customer base into a $100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist. As a young startup in 1997, Expertcity was a provider of Web-based desktop access and help-desk services.
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Wednesday - June 10, 2009
Google released on Tuesday a plug-in to its Google Apps arsenal that could be the last push needed to nudge some businesses into fully adopting its cloud computing services. The product, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, works with the Premier version of Google apps, which costs $50 per business user per year, as well as the free educational version, which is limited to 50 user accounts.
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Friday - May 29, 2009
The same developers who gave you Google Maps now think they've come up with the single best way for users to navigate all the communication and collaboration tools they currently use on a computer. Judging from some early tech press/blogger reaction Google Wave may indeed have the ability to take on not only the most popular office applications but also the hottest social networks.
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Wednesday - May 20, 2009
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the office that has records about millions of possibly missing emails from the Bush White House does not have to make them public.
The appeals court in Washington ruled that the White House Office of Administration is not an agency subject to FOIA, allowing the White House to keep secret documents about an email system that has been plagued with problems.
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Wednesday - May 20, 2009
The days of IT issuing the same mobile device to all employees are all but gone. These days, different types of workers need different kinds of devices. Sometimes employees bring their personal devices into the workspace, adding another layer to IT's burden. Plus, the underlying technologies in devices and apps are constantly changing.
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Monday - May 4, 2009
Even as the economic tsunami devastates IT budgets and scuttles many planned technology upgrades, a growing wave of companies continue to pursue unified communications solutions. While once viewed as a "nice-to-have" for large organizations with correspondingly large information technology budgets, unified communications solutions have advanced to within reach of organizations of all sizes.
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Monday - May 4, 2009
Before the arrival of sales force automation and marketing campaign software, there were productivity applications. CRM, as we all know, rose from that fundamental platform of email, calendaring, mailing list management and task management. A lot of CRM vendors include productivity in their CRM apps, but few focus on it as relentlessly as Relenta does.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Microsoft has begun a limited private beta test of an emergency social networking service that provides subscribers with a Twitter-like messaging system to track family, friends or special groups. Microsoft Vine is a downloadable application that collects news reports related to a specific area when disasters strike -- hurricanes, earthquakes pandemics, etc.
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Wednesday - April 22, 2009
Email was born sometime between 1965 and 1970, depending on how you define its genesis, and by 1980 it was considered by many to be the killer app. It drove the proliferation of PCs in the workplace and allowed people all over the world to work together. SMS texting and tweeting can take some credit for email's slow decline. However, it remains the most widely used application.
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Wednesday - April 15, 2009
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a public beta version of Microsoft Exchange 2010. This next version of Microsoft's email server will ship later this year, Microsoft said. The new Exchange version is built around a hybrid design that will form the infrastructure for a hosted email service at home or at the office.
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