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- 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
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 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
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage
- Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, IT IS, expection, Google Gmail, latest Gmail outage, Gmail outage, Unrealistic expection, Google Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general
- A little perspective...2 hours of downtime since May. That's at least 3 months of uptime if the May outage happened to fall on the last day of the month. Applying a little math, that tells me that GMail has had an uptime percentage of 99.999%. That's the...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Gmail FAIL, uptime, downtime, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Hyena 7.7C (Windows)
- Using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium-to-large Windows NT or Windows 2000 network can be a challenge. Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. This functionality is provided in a single, centralized,...
- Tags: Management, SystemTools Software, Hyena, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-31
- Achieved 17% Year End Inventory Reduction in Less Than 5 Months
- Headquartered in Fullerton, California, Beckman Coulter is a $2.6 billion global medical device company with more than 78% of its revenue generated by recurring revenue from test kits, supplies and services. Beckman Coulter experienced a loss of critical reporting and broken connections to their legacy systems. At the same time...
- Tags: Revenue, Information Technology, Oco, Hardware Upgrade, PDAs, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Hardware, Handhelds, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2009-07-31
- Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?
- Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implosion?Good pointMS realizes it can't base its business model on inertia, so the retail store is not a bad idea. Also, I feel far more confident with the Apple store employees than I do with the employees at Best Buy, rightly or...
- Tags: Retail, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., retail company, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- WorldMate Standard Edition Annual Subscription (Mobile)
- The Travel Utilities Value Package Traveling? Communicating with people abroad? Get a full set of essential services for a terrific price. WorldMate Standard Edition travel tools and services include indispensable and real-time travel information such as world clocks, weather forecasts for hundreds of cities worldwide, currency conversion with an online...
- Tags: Mobile, WorldMate Standard Edition, Lists, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Getting the Message Across
- The messaging infrastructure at Taylor's University College impeded resource sharing and staff mobility, offering little support to accommodate an expanding user base. Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services helped the college deploy clustered Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers, a Dell/EMC Storage Area Network SAN array, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to centralize...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Messaging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Global Real Estate Firm Boosts Productivity by 15 Percent and Cuts Travel Costs
- Jones Lang LaSalle provides professional real estate services from 750 locations in 60 countries. Many of its 30,000 employees work in outsourced arrangements, managing customer properties on-site, and many others work remotely. Mergers and acquisitions had resulted in a multivendor patchwork of voice communications systems, and workers used a range...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Outsource, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Jones Lang LaSalle, Real Estate, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Unisys has looming debt, credit pickle
- Unisys could lose its credit line at the end of May and that could make it tough to pay off its bonds without issuing a lot of shares. Unisys' problem is a common one these days with credit tight as numerous companies try to rearrange debt payments...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- News to know: Intel, Skype IPO, Microsoft netbooks, EMC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Intel: The bottom is in for PC demand Larry Dignan: eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, IPO, Web 2.0, Hardware, Financial Services, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Nokia, AT&T debut thinnest smartphone ever
- The thinnest smartphone on the market is coming to AT&T. Nokia has unveiled its E71x, just 10 millimeters thin and coming to AT&T in "coming weeks" for $99.99. The smartphone, which uses the Symbian OS, offers Wi-Fi, built-in GPS navigation, IM, video share, a music player, 3.2...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Phone, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, AT&T Corp., Camera, Smart Phones, Keyboards, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- WorldMate for S60 - Free (Mobile)
- WorldMate for S60 - NOW FREEWorldMate for Nokia S60, the leading mobile travel service for the on-the-go traveler, is now even better, with new features like real-time Flight Alerts, which instantly lets you know when there are changes to your travel schedule.Given the increased uncertainty and stress in travel today,...
- Tags: Flight, Mobile, Service, Connection Engine, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-03-23
- Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?
- While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is - and will remain - enterprises and small businesses. This dynamic is similar to the PC operating system market. Think about Windows Vista. It has largely...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Platform, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Business, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian Inc., Informa, BlackBerry Let, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Cloud wars: Microsoft-Google scrum isn't zero sum
- Microsoft Online Services' GlaxoSmithKline win is a nice victory for the software giant, but it may be a bit premature for too much chest thumping over Google Apps. On the other side of the equation, Google is likely to have a helluva a battle on its hands. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Online Services, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services Helps Zoot Enterprises Complete a New Microsoft Exchange Implementation 25 Percent Faster Than Anticipated
- The Zoot Enterprises IT team must design and implement a new e-mail and calendaring system in just six weeks to accommodate a customer's global expansion. The Zoot team engaged the Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services GICS team to help design and install the solution based on a Microsoft Exchange Server,...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Team Management, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Servers, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-03-01
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