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The best Facebook apps for business and career enhancement

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. Even though most people, including myself, use Facebook to connect with friends, family and colleagues, Facebook can also help you become more productive. Yes it's true, Facebook does not necessarily have...

Tags: Job, Facebook, Friend, App, Slates, SlideShare, TooDooz Project Management Toodooz, Facebook Files Files, Files, DivShare DivShare, DivShare, Collaboration/Communication my!TeamPlanner my!TeamPlanner, TravelersTable TravelersTable, SplashCast SplashCast, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-17

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Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

LG Glance (Verizon Wireless)

Just when we thought the days of the skinny phone were behind us, LG surprises us with yet another thin handset. The LG Glance is one of the slimmest phones we've ever seen, at only 0.38 inch thick. It has quite an elegant design overall, and though it's a rather...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, number keypad, Verizon Wireless, LG Glance, phone, LG Electronics Inc.

Product reviews 2009-06-19

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle

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. Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform? Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Leadership, Strategy, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Shabda-Brahma ET-Feel Word-Storm Processor (SB) 5.9.5 (Windows)

For anyone having a volume of tedious text to type, Shabda-Brahma ET-Feel Word-Storm Processor SB v5.9.5, the auto-suggesting, auto-typing, intelligent text-processor will be of great use for typing in the fundamental, skeletal text material into the computer. Whenever the user types the first few two or more letters of a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Word-processor, Font, Printing, Eastern Star Software, SB, Auto-suggestion, Word Processors, Internet, Document Management, Microsoft Word, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Microsoft Office, Office Suites

Software downloads 2007-12-13

Enterprise 2.0: The world of flatnesses

Dion Hinchcliffe checks in on the state of Enterprise 2.0 in his latest in-depth post on ZDNet, and covers the major lessons learned from the recent past--such as Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization whether you like it or not and Enterprise 2.0 is more a...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-22

The state of Enterprise 2.0

Industry analysts, CIOs, and business leaders around the world are continuing to try to read the industry tea leaves in 2007 when it comes to the subject of Enterprise 2.0, the increasingly popular discussion of using Web 2.0 platforms in the workplace. The primary topic of interest? Whether Enterprise...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Social Bookmarking, Enterprise 2.0, Worker, FLATNESSES, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Philips SRU8010

Philips' Pronto line of universal remotes was once the pinnacle of home theater cool--super customizable touch-screen models with a dedicated community of users who shared icons, macros, codes, and tricks on many an online message board. In the face of stiff competition from Logitech's PC-programmable Harmony line, the Pronto line...

Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, Philips SRU8010, Philips Electronics N.V.

Product reviews 2007-08-17

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?The Price of PrivilegeIt's interesting to consider the world in which these prep school students will eventually emerge. They will have had the experience of having a personal computer and personal unlimited access to tech resources and the Internet throughout their formative years. They will take...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, laptop computer, computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

McAfee and Davenport debate the value of Enterprise 2.0

This morning I moderated the debate between Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport on the merits of Enterprise 2.0 (I'll post video of the debate when it becomes available). The two professors agreed that Enterprise 2.0 is in its infancy, but disagreed on the potential for it to transform how people...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Who needs Facebook? Students fight back

YES, there is rain on the Facebook parade, despite Mark Zuckerberg & Company's best efforts today to create, cajole and control public and popular opinion via a splashy and flashy multi-media show from the heart of San Francisco pre-designed to crown Facebook the Web's star from here on in.Fresh faced Zuckerberg...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-24

When discretion really is the better part of valor

When discretion really is the better part of valorThanks, CD[i]I'd like to be pretty adept in a variety of operating systems (both server and client-based) so that I can make informed choices over the next couple of years. I can't very well lead a paradigm shift (if that's what's...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost

Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Like teenagers biologically programmed to step across every boundary put in place by their parents, the digerati, equipped with the constantly evolving tools of their trade (everything from YouTube-like video sharing sites to widely available hacks of anti-piracy systems), have been been...

Tags: Apple, Entertainment, General, Government, Hollywood On Demand, Legal, Personal Technology, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-03-13

How cell calls and text messages are intercepted: are you concerned yours might be?

Those are the good intercept guys. But that doesnt represent the entire cell phone intercept universe.The odds are vanishingly small that anyone is actually out there intercepting your text messages. But that doesnt mean it cannot be done.In fact, an article posted last week to the online magazine Slate...

Tags: Cellular phones, telephone, SIM card, CDMA

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?

Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNets own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it...

Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Wiki

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Big software firms take aim at Web 2.0

While 2006 was a big year for Web 2.0 in the consumer space, it was barely on the radar in the enterprise world. That didnt stop volumes of press coverage, speculation, and debate about how applicable Web 2.0 technologies -- from Ajax to social networking -- would actually be...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007

I explored the rise of Enterprise 2.0 this year in last weeks year in review post, but 2007 will likely prove to be a much more intriguing year for the trend. The demand side of Enterprise 2.0 seems to be driven from a variety of sources that likely include...

Tags: User Generated Content, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Social Software, Global SOA, Enterprise Web 2.0, Products, Network Effects, Orchestration, Collaboration, Governance, Business Process Management, SOA, Customer Self-Service, The Long Tail, Architecture of Participation, SaaS, Collective Intelligence, Hype, Design Patterns, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0Can SLATES overcome the need for a science?Your blogs are a learning experience. However, this one favors a direction (Enterprise 2.0) for the future enterprise. The stakes are high. The corporate email population is over 600 million. Collaboration is poor....

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, IBM Corp., vision, replication technology, SOA, Web 2.0, USD, Web, collaboration, knowledge, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-11-13

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as mashups. Programmable Web currently lists over 300 APIs that can be used for everything from building Web sites on top of Google Maps to...

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Models, SaaS, Mashups, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Business Process Management, Governance, Collaboration, WS-*, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Social Software, Web services, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, RSS, ATOM, REST, Social Networking, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content

Blog posts 2006-11-07