online and collaboration in news
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News For $15 per month per person, the business productivity suite offers an Outlook-integrated Exchange Online for email and calendars, Office SharePoint Online collaboration, messaging via Office Communications Online, and Office Live Meeting video... [09 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News Such a law would force ISPs to warn, then disconnect, those customers they think have been sharing copyrighted material online. The 'telecoms package', which on Monday gained approval by the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection... [09 Jul 2008]
BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii
News The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is being made available for the Nintendo Wii. Erik Huggers, the BBC's group controller for Future Media and Technology, announced the collaboration with Nintendo UK at the annual MipTV... [10 Apr 2008]
Web 2.0 'imperative' for business
News The industry is looking at deploying web 2.0 to empower the user community, to create a collaborative workspace where people who are not experts at using technology can very easily go online and start to work together," he said. [27 Mar 2008]
BT Tradespace spruces up its search
News Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said greater integration between BT Tradespace and BT's more traditional online and paper-based directory services will occur in the near future. BT Tradespace, the service designed to help small... [31 Oct 2007]
Adobe buys web word processor
News Microsoft, meanwhile, is expected to detail its own document collaboration service called Office Live Workspace, a free online tool for viewing, sharing and storing Office documents online. Larson said Adobe will focus on online collaboration of... [01 Oct 2007]
Can Redmond rivals storm the Office stronghold?
News Meanwhile, Google has introduced Google Presentations, an online version of Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation application that complements Google's web-hosted document editor and spreadsheet. It is also developing Office Live, a set of online... [19 Sep 2007]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News However, a privacy advocate dismissed the move as a desperate attempt by Google to appear to be sensitive to privacy issues in the midst of government scrutiny of its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad firm DoubleClick. [14 Sep 2007]
Web 2.0 driving second internet boom
News During a demo on stage Chambers showed off a future scenario of booking a hotel room online and being able to personalise it so that the electronic room key is sent to the guest's mobile device, personal digital photos are automatically sent to... [25 Jul 2007]
CIOs turn to web apps for cost and collaboration
News Online or hosted CRM services, as offered by the likes of Salesforce.com, are regarded as the flagship of the software as a service revolution and are being used by 52 per cent of the large enterprises whose CIOs were interviewed by Coleman Parkes. [07 Jun 2007]
China's virtual plans are out of this world
News Sweden-based Entropia Universe has been chosen to create a cash-based virtual economy for China in collaboration with Chinese online entertainment company Cyber Recreation Development (CRD). The collaboration will allow the Entropia Universe to... [06 Jun 2007]
Wikipedia's Wales hypes open-source search plan
News The people behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia have launched Wikia: a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other indexing tools through a collaborative, open source process. The ultimate goal of the project is to bring... [01 May 2007]
Google going after PowerPoint?
News Google has been releasing more and more productivity applications as free, online services, starting with Gmail in 2004. Despite Google executives' claims that the company is not competing with Microsoft, industry insiders, including Battelle, say... [18 Apr 2007]
Cisco to shell out $3.2bn for WebEx
News Cisco Systems is planning to spend $3.2bn to buy online conferencing company WebEx. The WebEx software and hosted service, which allows for on-demand collaboration between businesses, will find a home in Cisco's Unified Communications product... [16 Mar 2007]
Beeb tunes in to IBM's Marvel to sort its content
News The BBC has announced it will work with IBM to develop its online search services. The collaboration will also include a pilot of IBM's Media Hub which allows creative teams to manage and move content during a production process. [05 Mar 2007]
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