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Salesforce.com, Radian6 Deal Validates Social Media Monitoring
Competitors say there is growing interest in technology that lets sales, service, and marketing professionals monitor and respond to social media comments.
BYTE Mobile Radio Digs Into The Week In Mobile
More AT&T news, disappointing PlayBook rumors, and no iPhone 5 till fall
Social Learning A Hit At Classic Residence
Taleo Learn is being used by employee groups within the operator of retirement communities to train and educate each other.
Google App Engine Adds New Features
Java and Python software development kits get upgraded as Google refreshes its platform-as-a-service offering.
Microsoft Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google
The formal complaint with European Union regulators says Google is not playing fair in capturing the lion's share of ad revenue from search.
Research: AT&T, T-Mobile Business Customers Not Thrilled But See Upside
Our survey shows polarized views on whether the government should let the deal go ahead.
Where Are All the Honeycomb Apps?
The Motorola Xoom hit the market more than a month ago, yet there are still only a few dozen applications optimized for Android 3.0 Honeycomb. What gives?
ShareFile Adds Native Android, Apple Apps
The file sharing and storage vendor used PhoneGap to build the optimized mobile applications, with BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and tablets to follow.
Telligent Connects With Microsoft Lync
The beta version of the company's community software includes presence, chat, VoIP, and the capability to initiate videoconferences from inside Lync.
Microsoft Touts Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Success
The WP7 app store is an unparalleled hit, Microsoft says, but it still won't say how many handsets it has sold.
Does Your Phone's Remote Lock Feature Actually Work?
One of the features that most smartphones support is the ability to remote lock and remote wipe your device in the event it was stolen or lost. Just because your phone has that feature though doesn't mean it actually works.
Google +1 Adds Social Element To Search
Facebook is the target as the company builds a social network around search results that lets people share recommendations for websites and online advertisers.
IT And Marketing: How Digital Media's Changing The Relationship
The pressure is on to show measurable results from campaigns. That should make IT and marketing teams closer partners than they are.
'Do Not Track' Would Change The Rules
Here are the basics of what's being debated and how the new browsers fit in the discussion.
Paul Allen: Bill Gates Is A Traitor Who Eats Chicken With A Spoon
Microsoft co-founder won't likely get dinner invitations from his former partner after stinging new memoir is published.
IBM Connects With Social Software
Jeff Schick, IBM's vice president of social software, gives a tour of the company's various social media applications and how he uses activity streams and communities throughout the day.
Salesforce.com Acquisition Points To Marketing Ambitions
Radian6 brings social media monitoring capabilities to the SaaS-vendor’s CRM suite, but Marc Benioff makes no bones about the broader application potential.
Oracle's Itanium Dump Could Spark M&A Frenzy
Teradata and SAP will be attractive targets if Oracle's rivals believe Larry Ellison is going to keep his best software to himself.
Why Dell Is Wrong About The iPad
A Dell executive recently lambasted Apple's iPad as too expensive for business technology users. His math doesn't add up.
Google Launches In-App Billing On Android Market
Feature provides more ways for developers to make money, combats piracy, and reduces the number of apps in the online store.
Microsoft's IE9 Unlocks HTML5
Browser upgrade gives developers a whole new Web experience.
SMBs Boosting IT Spending, Hiring
Small and midsize business technology budgets are growing at the fastest rate since 2009, while one in three firms said they plan to hire IT staff during the next 18 months, according to a Spiceworks survey.
Google Settles FTC Privacy Suit Over Buzz
Internet giant agrees to 20 years of third-party audits, as well as implementing programs to protect users' personal data and contacts.
Oracle, Moffitt Collaborate On Cancer Informatics System
Moffitt Cancer Center is using Oracle technology to build a scalable, secure data analysis platform to support personalized cancer care and research.
Cisco To Acquire NewScale For Cloud Self-Provisioning
The addition of a service catalog and self-service portal will make Cisco into more of a private cloud supplier.
Salesforce.com To Buy Radian6 For Social Media Monitoring
Radian6 makes tools to monitor and analyze comments from 150 million websites, social media sites, blogs, and discussion forums.
Amazon's Cloud Drive: First Impressions
We take Amazon's new Cloud Drive music-streaming service for desktop browsers and Android handsets out for a spin.
End Of The Road For Symbian In 2012
When Nokia decided to partner with Microsoft and use Windows Phone as the platform for its cell phones, many questioned what would happen to Nokia's existing products, Symbian, Meego and Qt. Nokia has confirmed that Symbian will last be used in smartphones in 2012.
AppMakr Adds Social Networking To App Development
What would you pay somebody--or a firm--to develop a mobile application for your business? I'm talking about an app that lets your customers use their smartphones to get news about your company, check out promos, and browse through products.
FuzeBox Brings iPad 2, Android 3.0 Tablets Into Video Meetings
The latest version of Fuze Meeting now supports Honeycomb and iPad 2 tablets as full video participants that can provide as well as receive video within full conferencing experiences. Let the productivity begin!
Internet Pioneer Paul Baran Dies At 84
Baran helped develop key technology for the modern Internet and went on to launch seven companies, five of which went public.
RIM PlayBook To Get Native Email Eventually
Research In Motion has confirmed that a software update will add email, contacts, and calendaring applications to its tablet, but until then a BlackBerry is required for PIM.
Kerio Launches Cloud Collaboration For SMBs
Workspace offers Web-based collaboration, file sharing, and document management tools based in part on social media principles.
IBM To Support Australia's National Broadband Plan
$205 million deal calls for Big Blue to provide government-backed NBN with key software and consulting services.
HootSuite Secure Profiles Curbs Inappropriate Comments
A version of an "Are you sure?" button called Secure Profiles is designed to prevent employee mistakes and misfires from ruining a company's reputation.
Global CIO: Will CIOs Sit Out The Opportunity of A Lifetime?
Mobile and social look bigger than the initial Web surge when it comes to changing companies' relationships with customers. Innovators like Vail CIO Robert Urwiler are testing the edges.
Windows Phone 7 Predicted To Beat Apple iPhone
Google's Android will be in first place, but Microsoft's WP 7 platform will come in second with 20% of the worldwide smartphone market by 2015, according to IDC.
IE9, Multitasking Coming To Windows Phone 7
"Mango" update for Microsoft's mobile OS is next in line after "NoDo" copy & paste patch is fully released.
Workday Extends Cloud Integration Options
Platform as a Service provides an ecosystem for linking ERP to payroll, recruiting, benefits, time-tracking, and other systems and third-party providers.
Java Inventor Joins Google
James Gosling comes aboard as his former employer, Oracle, battles Google over the use of Java in Android.
HP Makes Green SMB Push
The vendor announced several green initiatives at a recent conference in San Francisco, some of which are aimed at SMBs.
Tabula Raises $108 Million For Programmable Chips
The programmable logic semiconductor designer notched one of the largest venture capital rounds ever for a private chip company.
Cell Phone Health Risk To Bones
There have been on again, off again reports that cell phones cause brain cancer. Now the latest information is the radiation emitted by cell phones is causing a reduction in bone density.
Looxcie Brings Convenience In Wearable Camcorder
This Bluetooth videocamera headset might not bring the innovation of the Flip camera, but it's great for instant video sharing, and convenient wearing.
Lenovo Boosts Workstation, Desktop Performance
The ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 are targeted at creative, engineering, and financial professionals.
Tsunami To Crimp Toner Supplies?
In the short term, yes, but in the long term things will probably sort themselves out, predicts economist's blog.
Broadvision's Clearvale Express Offers Free Social Media Capabilities
Broadvision has introduced Clearvale Express, a SaaS-based social networking/enterprise 2.0 application that makes it possible for a company to provide workers with a Twitter-like activity stream that lets you know what your colleagues are working on, collaborate on files and tasks, and build collaborative communities. Workers can follow other users and view a simple Facebook-like profile wall on each user of the company network within Clearvale Express. The application is a stripped down versio
Tibco FTL Speeds Capital Market Messaging
'Faster Than Light' middleware breaks the microsecond barrier. But will the latency advantage last?
Will LG Make Google's Nexus Honeycomb Tablet?
Google reportedly has asked LG to build the tablet equivalent of the Nexus S, an official developer platform for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets.
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