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Communication News -> Messaging
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Republican National Convention venue gets network makeover
What does it take to convert a hockey arena into a site that can handle the technology demands of the Republican National Convention? Roughly 25 miles of cabling, for starters.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
Mozilla experiments push Firefox envelope
Mozilla is experimenting with several ideas to push the browser envelope, including one that could turn the browser into a messaging hub.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
Gaining insight and control in your messaging infrastructure
E-mail is an extraordinarily useful tool, as virtually all of us recognize. However, it can create enormous liabilities for an organization and it can cost an organization more than it should.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
Resisting the move to unified communications
A reader offers some insightful thought on the future of unified communications, "It is cool to find out that you are at some Expo and find out that there is a new gadget from Twitter. The fact that you are now going to the restroom is more than I need to know. Yes, unified communications may become like Facebook or MySpace, but I hope not."
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
IBM counters Microsoft's software seat-stealing boast
IBM/Lotus Thursday hit back at Microsoft's boast that it plans to steal 5 million Notes customers this year by detailing a new 300,000-seat licensing deal with an Asian company and strong interest in Notes from emerging markets.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
What will truly unified communication be like?
There's a lot of talk about unified communications - the integration of e-mail, voice, fax, video, presence-enabled applications like instant messaging, collaboration tools and other capabilities into a unified system that can be accessed through a single interface. But what if we look 10 years down the road and examine the characteristics of a truly unified communications system? Here are my thoughts on what that might look like.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
Making a federal case out of records preservation
On April 15, three U.S. representatives introduced H.R. 5811, The Electronic Message Preservation Act. This Act, if passed into law, would bring up to date the parameters of the Federal Records Act and the Presidential Records Act, effectively requiring the preservation of government records in a way that current practice does not dictate. The impetus for the submission of the bill was the loss of thousands or millions of e-mails by the White House over the past several years.
Networkworld.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EST
William Shatner' New Video Autograph Site
William Shatner is an investor and partner in Live Autographs, a new video service in which celebrities appear on camera to deliver a personalized greeting as they sign an autograph. - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - William Shatner sat in a drab office staring at a TV monitor displaying a message he was supposed to read to a fan while signing an autograph, but quot;Star Trek's quot; Captain Kirk wasn't very happy. quot;I can't do this, this is crazy, quot; Shatner said. The mess...
Eweek.com Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:15:17 -0400
Google Gmail, Google Apps Are Not Enterprise Ready
Google Gmail and Google Apps went dark this past week, creating a firestorm of fury among those using the messaging and collaboration software to communicate or use one of their key enterprise applications. What does it mean when your hosted infrastructure collapses? Analysts from IDC, Forrester Research, Ferris Research and Burton Group weigh in with their thoughts on what the outages mean for Google and the SAAS/cloud computing space at large. - In light of the latest Google Gmail and Google Apps outages, I asked several industry analysts whether Google's software is dependable enough for enterprises and whether or not the Web is reliable enough as a business platform. IDC analyst Melissa Webster, who covers collaboration technologies, t...
Eweek.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:06:15 -0400
Dell's Twitter Experiment in the Enterprise Fails
Dell uses Twitter as its messaging and collaboration tool during a Q A with reporters to announce its new laptop line. The hard-to-follow tweets showed just how challenging it is to leverage Twitter as an enterprise application. Looks like IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft Communications Server are safe for now. - Debate remains great about whether or not popular micro-blogging Web site Twitter, which lets us post 140-character updates on what we're doing or commentaries on things, is a viable enterprise tool. There are instances burbling up that Twitter is used in business or enterprise communications and...
Eweek.com Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:19:35 -0400
Google Gmail Endures Another Outage
Google's Gmail e-mail application goes down again less than a week after suffering an outage along with Google Apps. Google restores it, noting that an outage in the contacts system used by Gmail prevented the e-mail system from loading properly. The issue is an example of the myriad things that can go wrong when a vendor hosts e-mail in the Internet as part of the broad cloud computing movement. - SEATTLE - Google Inc said on Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail. The problems began at about 2100 GMT, or 1400 PST, and an announcement on the company's Gmail quot;Help Center quot...
Eweek.com Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:03:51 -0400
Gartner Analysts Decry Facebook, Twitter Bans at Work
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social applications that allow for messaging and collaboration in the workplace should not be banned, argue two Gartner analysts. Though not quite ready for use in enterprise applications, Facebook, Twitter and the others can prove valuable in helping colleagues and customers connect, so long as businesses employ a trust model. - Gartner analysts Anthony Bradley and Nikos Drakos say corporations should not ban social applications such as Twitter or social networks such as Facebook and MySpace in the enterprise. Their arguments come after banks such as Credit Suisse Group have stopped their employees from using such tool...
Eweek.com Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:18:44 -0400
Google Gmail, Google Apps Outage in the Cloud
Google Gmail and Google Apps messaging and collaboration services in the cloud suffered an outage of nearly 15 hours. Google Gmail and Google Apps users spent their time away from the messaging and collaboration platforms flogging the company on the Google Apps discussion group. Can Microsoft and other SAAS newcomers take advantage of these Google Gmail and Google Apps outages? - Several Google users, some of them paying customers, found themselves knocked out of Google Apps and Gmail after an quot;access issue quot; knocked out the company's software as a service suite for 15 hours. The snafu, spanning from 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday afternoon to nearly 5 a.m. EDT Thursday mo...
Eweek.com Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:08 -0400
Central Desktop to Challenge Microsoft SharePoint, Google Apps in Collaboration Software
Central Desktop is one of several Web collaboration startups trying to compete with Microsoft SharePoint and Google Apps for a share of the Web collaboration market. Central Desktop has added a database API that enables enterprise application integration, time-tracking tools and a help desk application atop its messaging and collaboration tools. - Central Desktop, one of several Web collaboration software providers trying to compete with Microsoft SharePoint and Google Apps for a share of the SMB Web collaboration market, has added time tracking, support and help desk applications and a new database API that lets teams integrate data from...
Eweek.com Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:58:18 -0400
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