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- Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise
- Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?
- A few weeks after Cisco's Tandberg acquisition, peripheral manufacturer Logitech has announced that it was acquiring LifeSize for $405 million in cash. LifeSize provides high definition HD video communication solutions. The video acquistion positions Logitech with a comnplete range of video conferencing equipment. Last year, the company acquired...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, Logitech, Video, Polycom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service
- Cisco just announced a new hosted email offer, WebEx Mail. at its collaboration summit. This isn't the first time that Cisco has entered the email business, but it does come at time when Cisco is moving to challenge Microsoft and IBM in broader collaboration space. Similar to...
- Tags: Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Semantic Inbox, Outlook Experience, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Google Adds Social Search
- A new experiment in Google Labs informs your search results with input from your social circle. Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Search, New York, Search Result, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- I’ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well, so simple and obvious that I can't believe nobody has proposed it. A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking...
- Tags: Content Provider, Net Neutrality, Gold/Platinum, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- 22 Tools to LifeLog Today
- Imagine never forgetting anything. You'd be able to recall that person's name who you wanted to do business with at the tradeshow or just find those darn keys in the morning. That's what LifeLogging (aka e-memory) tool is all about. While there was lots of news this week about...
- Tags: Tool, Data Set, Productivity, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- LifeLogging and Love: A Fatal Combination?
- News this week came out about a new camera that will let you put your life online. LifeLogging, as this is called, may have adverse effects though for your health.... by Dave Greenfield
- Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?
- Microsoft confirmed this morning that it will begin recovering data for Sidekick users. The move caps off a week of turmoil for cloud computing advocates, which began with Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary announcing the loss of Sidekick data. You can read more about it here and the ensuing law suits here....
- Tags: Survey, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Google Adds Shared Folders to Docs
- Google announced today that it was adding shared folders to Google Docs. With shared folders any file placed in the folder is shared amongst people with access rights to the folder. To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into...
- Tags: Folder, Google Inc., Shared Folder, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- The Hook Up: Internet Dating Meets VoIP
- Oh, this is too funny. See what happens when you mash Internet dating and your phone system. by Dave Greenfield
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- 7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online
- So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don't. The research comes from Dr Brent Coker of...
- Tags: Activity, Blogging, Internet, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Games, Sales, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Android's Weakest Link
- Just as as a slew of Android-based phones are getting ready to hit the market, the open source mobile platform is facing its biggest challenge - itself. TechCrunch is reporting that Android developers are pretty pissed about having to support multiple code bases...
- Tags: Developer, Phone, Android, Arlington, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?
- This morning President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee awarded him the honor for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." This would make him the first sitting president to win the award since Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Pretty strong statement. Do...
- Tags: Award, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Skype's New Revenue Model
- Skype just announced a new kind of advertising-based service. The service is aimed at giving Skype a portion of the $31billion yellow page market. With Skype's business funded click-to-call, Skype users will find it easier and free to call local businesses . A call that is...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- IPhone Apps to Run on AT&T Network
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T reversed it's decision to allow apps to run on the iPhones connected to its 3G network. AT&T Inc. reversed course Tuesday and said that it will allow Internet phone software applications on the iPhone to run on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, AT&T Corp., Smart Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- A Different Kind of Phone Service
- Ari Rabban and I go way back - like five minutes. The president of Phone.com (wouldn't you like that domain name) has agreed to meet me at the Short Hills Hilton to talk about his newest venture. Rabban is a long time hand in the VoIP space having worked at...
- Tags: Marketing, Phone, Phone.com, Virtual Office, Tagging, Rabban, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- LifeSize PassPort: The First Skype-Compatible Telepresence System
- Cisco's $3 billion offer to buy Tandberg yesterday may bring Cisco a more economical telepresence solution than its own not saying much, but that's only part of the challenge of bringing the technology to the small business and our homes. On Monday, LifeSize will take a big step towards solving...
- Tags: Video Call, Skype Technologies S.A., Video, Cisco Systems Inc., HD, Passport, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Facebook, Wrong Again!
- As it being widely reported, a Facebook poll has caught the ire of the Secret Service for asking whether President Obama should be killed. The Service is investigating the poll and asked the poll be taken down. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this...
- Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Facebook, Barack Obama, Service, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Spigit Curbs Sharepoint Waste
- How many Sharepoint sites did your company start in the past year? Now, how many are actively being used? If you're organization is like many, Sharepoint adoption isn't the same as Sharepoint usage. In a new study by Infotrends Inc. a market consultancy, researchers found that...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Spigit, SAAS Software, Spigit Software, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
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