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Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Users can create a network of content, applications and people in a similar way to users of social networks through tools such as profiles, groups and contacts. Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010: Beta launched
News New features include a social networking connector that allows users to incorporate social networking feeds into Outlook. Office 2010 beta is now publicly available for download, Microsoft announced... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use. [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
Among the features new to the beta is a social networking connector that allows users to bring in Windows Live and other social networking feeds into Outlook. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the... [19 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment Knitting together disparate communications and collaboration tools like mobile phones, audio and video conferencing, instant messaging and social networking, as well as the concept of 'presence' (knowing where anybody is... [17 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment A story that changes people's perception of the power social networking. Compiled on the M6 while travelling from Birmingham to Ipswich. Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi at The IoD in London two days later. [16 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment Your finger is well and truly riding the social media pulse. As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business join the tweet-fest or keep schtum? silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma. [16 Nov 2009]
Social Networking: The Growing Threat to Businesses and Individuals
White Paper Social Networking is a phenomenon that has officially grown out of control. It has grown to the point where neither the users nor the social networking companies themselves can control these monsters... [13 Nov 2009]
The ABC's of Social Engineering & Five Ways to Protect Your Organization
White Paper Social Engineering has been an effective method of committing fraud for centuries. Without one social engineering method or another, most current attacks would not be successful. Social... [13 Nov 2009]
Social Networking & Collaboration for the Workplace: How to Extend and Transform Business Processes With Social Networking and Collaboration Tools
White Paper This is where social networking and collaboration software steps in. Research shows that informal learning accounts for over 80% of the learning that takes place in organizations1. As organizations realize the potential... [13 Nov 2009]
Sharing: Global Sourcing Trends
White Paper Economic and social drivers such as labor arbitrage and tax incentives, as well as access to global talent and global markets, have fueled off-shoring during the past 20 years. Today, as cost containment becomes a... [13 Nov 2009]
Key Issues in Selecting an Email Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solution
White Paper Clearly, then, email is critical and, despite the growing use of social media, wikis, blogs, realtime communications, unified communications and other modes of communicating with others, email will continue to be the... [13 Nov 2009]
Securing and Controlling the New Internet at the Web Gateway
White Paper As organizations and users alike are utilizing a combination of enterprise and publicly available tools, applications and communities, the Internet and corporate networks are awash with Web 2.0 applications such as... [13 Nov 2009]
Meeting Carbon Targets?
White Paper In addition it can also embrace the ethical objectives of social inclusion allowing the investment to provide increased access to the value of the Internet. The combination of 802.11 WiFi and the freedom to securely roam... [13 Nov 2009]
Will Facebook Get You Hired or Fired?
White Paper Although these attacks are often directed towards high net-worth individuals, cyber-criminals use social networking sites and other online databases to obtain the majority of the information which allows them to commit... [13 Nov 2009]