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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Microsoft To 'Throttle' Windows Phone 7 Update
NoDo patch will roll out gradually as software maker hopes to avoid technical glitches that plagued previous update.
Videoconferencing, Telepresence Spending To Double By 2015
Cisco-Tandberg, Avaya, Lifesize, and Polycom are focusing on conference room systems, projected as the area of greatest growth, according to Infonetics.
Practical Analysis: Oracle Vs. HP -- Who's Got Your Back?
Customers should opt to keep the vendor that's keeping their interests in mind.
Data Gaps Plague Process Initiatives
Data governance and business process management efforts are too often siloed. It's up to IT (and the business) to integrate the two.
Social-Media Study Teasers Unveiled
Did you know that the most widely used social media channel for small and midsize businesses are company pages on Facebook? Or that SMBs are ditching e-mail marketing in favor of social media advertising?
Nimbula Readies Cloud OS Launch
Director operating system will enable providers to build out a cloud infrastructure like Amazon's EC2, then extend it with their own brand of added services, the firm announced at Cloud Connect.
Social Media Is Changing CRM
Facebook, Twitter, and other social channels are changing the way companies interact with customers, says Alex Dayon, executive VP of customer relationship management at Salesforce.com.
Itanium Dump Could Cost Oracle Billions
Forcing customers to buy Sun hardware if they want to run Oracle apps may be the only way to justify a $7.4 billion acquisition, but such a move could alienate customers and deliver them straight to rivals.
Google Delays 'Honeycomb' Code Release
The company says it has more work to do before the software is ready.
Consumerization Of IT: How To Support All These Gadgets
Should you offer no IT support for employees' consumer tech, or embrace it and do all you can?
Tablets, Web Apps Lead 'Consumerization' Of IT
Forrester Research finds much less support for allowing employees to bring their own PCs to work.
Consumerization Of IT: How To Make It Work For You
There's no stopping this stuff, so IT might as well make the most of it.
IBM Intros Social Media Analytics
The cloud-based Coremetrics Social and Unica email optimization suite help businesses assess the impact of social marketing initiatives.
Army, Air Force Get 3D Battle Planning Technology
DARPA designed the holographic display system to help military leaders plan initiatives in urban areas and other complex terrain.
Firefox 4 Secures HTTPS
Like Google Chrome, Mozilla's upgraded browser implements HTTP Strict Transport Security, enabling Web sites to specify when only HTTPS pages should be used.
Social Media Rejected For Healthcare Communications
Online channels are popular for administrative tasks like appointment setting and billing, but patients vastly prefer traditional communications when consulting with doctors, according to Capstrat poll.
Consumerization Of IT: How To Support All These Gadgets
Should you offer no IT support for employees' consumer tech, or embrace it and do all you can?
Consumerization Of IT: How To Make It Work For You
There's no stopping this stuff, so IT might as well make the most of it.
RIM's PlayBook Will Run Android Apps
But There's A Catch. Or Two.
Oracle Reports 37% Revenue Growth
Software revenue increased 19% from a year ago, reaching $6 billion, and gross margins for the hardware business Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems reached 55% in the most recent quarter.
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