Technology News: Communication Systems

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Monday - April 28, 2008

A large number of teens feel that language more appropriately used in e-mails, text messaging and online postings has made its way into their school work, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. About 50 percent of teenagers said they write something for school nearly every day. More than one-third reported having a written assignment several times a week. Most survey respondents, 73 percent, contend that using computers and text-based communications did not influence their formal writing. [More...]

Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Disasters: Are You Prepared?

Friday - April 25, 2008

Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your business would be impacted if the Internet went away for an hour, a day or an even a longer period of time? [More...]

Veodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos. [More...]

Communication in the Workplace: Beyond the Virtual Water Cooler

Sunday - April 20, 2008

A few weeks ago, University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer said his team's chemistry was suffering. The reason: cell phones and iPods. Meyer said his players come into the locker room with iPods, put their football gear on and go out to practice, come back in and grab their iPod or whip out their cell phone and text people, and leave. [More...]

Leaving Eudora for Apple Mail: A Difficult Switch to Make

Tuesday - April 15, 2008

Tonya Engst at Tidbits.com decided it was finally time to make the switch from Eudora to Apple Mail. She told the story of what happened and what she learned along the way on Sunday. "After months of hemming and hawing, I recently took the plunge and switched from Eudora to Apple Mail," Engst wrote. [More...]

Jive Adds Web 2.0 Rhythms to New Enterprise Collaboration Software

Monday - April 7, 2008

A little over a year following the initial release of its Clearspace collaboration platform in February 2007, Jive Software announced the availability of the Clearspace 2.0 Monday. The newest iteration of Clearspace enables users to share information and connect with coworkers and business partners in order to increase communication and workplace productivity. [More...]

Big Blue's Secure Second Life Fortress

Friday - April 4, 2008

IBM is putting its heft behind a project that could morph into new way of doing business in Second Life, Linden Lab's virtual 3-D community. The two have partnered to build a protected enclave in Second Life where the company can conduct serious business without fear of marauders. [More...]

Cyber-Thieves' New Target: Business Processes

Tuesday - April 1, 2008

The business use of e-mail worldwide has become so critical that the ever-increasing number of spam attacks containing malware are placing corporate and customer information at the highest levels of risk yet, according to an industry-wide survey Internet security firm Webroot conducted last month. [More...]

Google Gives Spreadsheet Junkies Doc Gadget Fix

Thursday - March 20, 2008

Google has introduced a new set of tools to let Google Docs users amp up their online documents -- particularly their spreadsheets. Gadgets for spreadsheets now lets users embed graphical representations of their data directly in their spreadsheets, as well as publish the gadgets on the Web. [More...]

New Avaya App Unifies Presence Info Across Multiple Channels

Tuesday - March 18, 2008

Avaya has introduced Intelligence Presence, a new software application that gives users -- both in corporate environments and call centers -- the ability to view so-called presence information across multiple sources. For example, it would allow a contact center rep engaged with a caller to see if a partner company had a rep available to provide answers about shipping schedules or rates. [More...]

Answering Smartphone Users' Calls for Backup

Tuesday - March 18, 2008

As our reliance on smartphones continues to grow, so does the fear of losing all the information they contain -- and for good reason. Fierce competition among handset manufacturers and carriers has resulted in a chaotic, seemingly impenetrable jungle of incompatible makes and models with backup and recovery functionality that often proves complicated to use. [More...]

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