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Global Manufacturer Improves Collaboration With Integrated Communications Solution

Air Products, a worldwide supplier of atmospheric and specialty gases, equipment, and services, wanted better collaboration tools for its employees. The company was using a variety of collaboration methods, and employees spent a lot of time and effort trying to arrange meetings and contact colleagues. To improve collaboration, Air Products...

Tags: Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Communications Solution, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-10-01

Communications Solution Simplifies Time Management at Telecom Equipment Firm

Tellabs designs, develops, deploys, and supports wireless and wireline network solutions. Tellabs employees had no integration between their e-mail and calendar and faced difficulties in accessing their e-mail from remote locations. In response, Tellabs deployed a new communications solution featuring Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003,...

Tags: Tellabs, Solution, Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., Communications Solution, E-mail, Time Management, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Online Communications, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

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Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling

Comcast is suing the Federal Communications Commission over the agency's move to sanction the cable giant over blocking peer-to-peer Internet traffic from BitTorrent. According to the Wall Street Journal, Comcast filed the lawsuit on Thursday. Comcast said it will comply with the FCC order, but is suing...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Net Neutrality, Federal Government, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?

There was an interesting discussion at Office 2.0 that dealt with the topic of online communities. There's a lot of noise on the Web today and it's easy for that to noise to get – for lack of a better phrase – out of control. So should a company try...

Tags: Community, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast challenges FCC authority

I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List

Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Ten key differences between Linux and Windows

Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License

News items 2008-09-04

Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)

Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Live Webcast: Top Ten Challenges with On-Premise Email Management

For most organizations, the costs and management burdens of ever more sophisticated email continuity and archiving systems is now a serious problem. To manage increasing data stores, complex retention policies, fast search and recovery of messages and disaster recovery, companies have many choices for on-premise or on-demand services. While...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, On-demand, MessageOne, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-09-04

Remove Excel Write Password (exe)

Remove Excel Write Password removes any MS Excel shared workbook password, password to modify, workbook protection and sheet protection passwords. If you have forgotten any internal Excel password this is the solution for you. Passwords of any length and character set are supported and removed in a few minutes each....

Tags: Password, Dombaj Soft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-04

PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager (zip)

PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager 4.0 print management software has simplified and automated print administration for print server and non-print server environment i.e. direct IP printing atmosphere or workstation connected printer. The software provides centralized control of print manager that helps to administer printer monitor and counter. This software is printer...

Tags: Job, PrinterAdmin Software, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-09-04

Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?

Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?TiVo & DirecTVTiVo are not competing with DirecTV by selling their own boxes since the TiVo HD box does not work with satellite, only cable. By partnering with DirecTV they would then have the cable market AND the satellite market available to them....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, TiVo Inc., DirecTV

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Revenge of the techies

Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Revenge, job

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Nick Heath, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-03

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Nick Heath, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-03