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Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business processes, as seen here. [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com showing off its Wave app this week at SAP's TechEd conference in Vienna. Earlier this year, Google... [30 Oct 2009]
Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November. [29 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Google is a company whose products usually start by capturing the imagination of consumers and then business gets interested but we have already had an enormous amount of interest [from companies]," Rasmussen told the SAP TechEd... [28 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News About six or seven months ago I did not have a clue about what cloud computing was and was invited to speak about it at a conference so I had to find out about it - since then it has fundamentally changed my philosophy... [26 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Speaking at a recent industry conference, Larry Huston, the first VP for innovation and knowledge, said: "The company's intellectual assets are not just 'our know-how', but also 'who we know. It might just come from... [14 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News The system uses data from its Nectar customer loyalty scheme to determine a customer's tastes and prints off customised vouchers at the checkout, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King revealed in a conference call with investors... [09 Oct 2009]
Steve Ballmer on Microsoft software 'gotchas'
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in July this year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted the company could do more to simplify its software licensing. [06 Oct 2009]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Windows 7, Apple and those tablet rumours
News Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this year Ahead of a visit to the UK, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down with silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com to share his thoughts on Windows... [05 Oct 2009]
IT Services Provider Cuts Internal Travel Costs in Half With Video Conferencing
White Paper Now, employees can initiate a video conference from within Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 simply by clicking a button. Dimension Data, a global IT services provider and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, wanted to... [02 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Hyper-reality was rife early this year after shrink-wrapped boxes of iPhone nanos turned up in Thai markets shortly after the Macworld conference. Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in the... [01 Oct 2009]
Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
News The Ribbit team recently showed off their prototype widget, which lets Wave users quickly set up a conference room inside a "wave" message on the service. Once you add the Ribbit conference widget to a... [30 Sep 2009]
Dell ditches the wires with Latitude Z for business
News A smaller separate adapter can hook up the laptop with any accompanying monitor, whether it be one at a desk, or in a conference room. Dell has announced its Latitude Z laptop aimed at business customer. [29 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News This stuff [smartphones and mobile applications] is going much more mainstream," he said during the conference call. BlackBerry maker RIM on Thursday said it sold fewer BlackBerry phones than analysts had expected and... [25 Sep 2009]
