Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Yahoo has launched an enhanced version of its Mail service. The changes to Yahoo Mail offer users a "smarter in-box" experience that the company said it will roll out gradually to its users during the coming months. The move is part of its ongoing Yahoo Open Strategy initiative. As the change expands across all regions, Yahoo Mail users will find a new "Welcome Page" that will include messages, information and activity updates from people users have identified as important as well as an updated in-box and folder view that filters messages from personal connections.
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Thursday - December 11, 2008
By looking carefully at the technological, environmental and cultural changes required to fully take advantage of the power of video and telepresence, the full story of how companies can successfully implement this technology is being revealed. Aberdeen is uncovering how successful implementations of telepresence occur in the enterprise workplace.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
Voice today is at center stage in the enterprise. Carrier Session Internet Protocol trunks, enterprise SIP trunks, converged IP networks, federating private branch exchanges, unified communications and communication-enabled applications are but a few of the many voice initiatives you'll find underway in any large enterprise today.
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Thursday - December 4, 2008
IBM has teamed with Virtual Bridges and Canonical to offer a new Linux-based virtual desktop solution. The three companies announced the general availability of Virtual Linux Desktop Thursday, calling it a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft's desktop software. VLD runs open standards-based e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, unified communication, social networking and other software.
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Tuesday - November 18, 2008
What mistakes will cause emergency communication systems to undergo excessive stress or possibly fail in a disaster, and what steps should be taken to improve performance? One of the biggest challenges for emergency communication centers is the wide range of situations that require responses.
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Wednesday - November 12, 2008
Google is ratcheting up the sophistication of its messaging and collaboration applications by adding voice and video chat to Gmail. The enhancement is in part a tactical play -- Google would like to scoop up more video users among its enterprise customer base, according to Rajen Sheth, Google senior product manager.
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Wednesday - November 12, 2008
IBM announced a partnership with International Broadband Electric Communications Tuesday that will see the two companies begin deploying Broadband over Power Line networks at electric cooperatives throughout the eastern U.S. The two companies are working to resolve an issue that has plagued U.S. residents in rural areas -- no access to broadband Internet services.
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Monday - November 10, 2008
Avaya is targeting unmet pockets of user demand in the telecom industry with the release of three new offerings this week: a contact center product focused on outbound messaging and self-service, a speech-to-text application, and a unified communications package that bundles licenses of various products.
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Thursday - November 6, 2008
In this episode of BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, our experts examine the state of Microsoft at the onset of the annual Professional Developers Conference. Two narratives emerge from our roundtable discussion; one is that Microsoft is behind on many new IT trends and is tied to past business models.
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Tuesday - November 4, 2008
Enterprises invest a sizable portion of their IT budgets in ensuring that sensitive data remains secure and inaccessible to individuals in the outside world. However, a tool that most enterprise employees use daily -- e-mail -- can easily become a leak in company's defensive dam. Businesses can lose vital information through inappropriate employee e-mail activity and inadequate prevention measures.
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Friday - October 31, 2008
On occasion, Google's Gmail service has gone dark, in some cases for hours at a time. Predictably, users of the free service flipped out and took to the Web to sound off. Google's response, up to now, has merely been to issue apologies and get the system up and running again. Now, though, Google is offering users of its Google Apps Premier Edition a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.
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