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NTSB Practices What It Preaches About Cellphones and Driving September 09, 2009 
The federal safety agency that investigates transportation accidents is banning texting and talking on cellphones by its employees while driving on government business. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said Tuesday she's adopting the policy because she wants her agency to follow the same safety practices it recommends for others.
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Gmail Failure Heightens Cloud Computing Jitters September 02, 2009 
Gmail's 100-minute outage Tuesday was the result of a cascading series of router failures caused by a combination of hardware maintenance and traffic policies, Google said. The failure of the third-most popular Web mail service left users around the world who access the system online instead of through an email client unable to send or receive new messages or retrieve saved ones.
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FCC Eyes Flames Threatening LA Broadcasting, Communications September 01, 2009 
The smoke and haze from the 190-square mile Station Fire near Los Angeles isn't just making it difficult to see in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's also having an impact on advanced forms of communications in Southern California: cellphone signals, television and radio broadcasting, even transmissions among the police, sheriff and fire crews battling the blaze.
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The Comedy - and Tragedy - of the Commons July 30, 2009 
Sensitive data in unstructured formats poses a distinct problem to security- and compliance-minded organizations, a problem exacerbated by the ubiquity of Web-based portals and collaborative tools such as Microsoft SharePoint. This research brief describes how current Microsoft SharePoint users respond to the security challenges raised by their expanding reliance on collaboration.
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App Testing at the Speed of Change July 08, 2009 
Adaptability is the name of the game in our fast-paced society. In order to remain on top, every company needs to adapt to the market in which it participates. Software and application developers -- actually, the entire IT department, if you want to get technical -- are particularly affected by this fast pace of change.
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Google Throws Its Voice to the Masses June 26, 2009 
Three months after unveiling its Google Voice application, Google unveiled a limited public roll-out on Thursday. The application's home site says the tool is available by invitation only. Anyone can sign up for an invitation, though they must then wait for a go-ahead from Google. Google has added several features to the application since March.
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Citrix Online Brings SMBs Into the Virtual Meeting Room June 15, 2009 
The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to save money and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing the company's customer base into a $100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist. As a young startup in 1997, Expertcity was a provider of Web-based desktop access and help-desk services.
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Google Edges Deeper Onto MS Turf With Outlook Plug-In June 10, 2009 
Google released on Tuesday a plug-in to its Google Apps arsenal that could be the last push needed to nudge some businesses into fully adopting its cloud computing services. The product, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, works with the Premier version of Google apps, which costs $50 per business user per year, as well as the free educational version, which is limited to 50 user accounts.
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Google Unleashes Web App Tidal Wave May 29, 2009 
The same developers who gave you Google Maps now think they've come up with the single best way for users to navigate all the communication and collaboration tools they currently use on a computer. Judging from some early tech press/blogger reaction Google Wave may indeed have the ability to take on not only the most popular office applications but also the hottest social networks.
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Enterprise Mobile Security: Conquering Chaos May 20, 2009 
The days of IT issuing the same mobile device to all employees are all but gone. These days, different types of workers need different kinds of devices. Sometimes employees bring their personal devices into the workspace, adding another layer to IT's burden. Plus, the underlying technologies in devices and apps are constantly changing.
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The Burgeoning Momentum Behind Unified Communications May 04, 2009 
Even as the economic tsunami devastates IT budgets and scuttles many planned technology upgrades, a growing wave of companies continue to pursue unified communications solutions. While once viewed as a "nice-to-have" for large organizations with correspondingly large information technology budgets, unified communications solutions have advanced to within reach of organizations of all sizes.
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The End of Message Fragments: Q&A With Relenta CEO Dmitri Eroshenko May 04, 2009 
Before the arrival of sales force automation and marketing campaign software, there were productivity applications. CRM, as we all know, rose from that fundamental platform of email, calendaring, mailing list management and task management. A lot of CRM vendors include productivity in their CRM apps, but few focus on it as relentlessly as Relenta does.
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Microsoft's Vine to Reach Out in Emergencies April 29, 2009 
Microsoft has begun a limited private beta test of an emergency social networking service that provides subscribers with a Twitter-like messaging system to track family, friends or special groups. Microsoft Vine is a downloadable application that collects news reports related to a specific area when disasters strike -- hurricanes, earthquakes pandemics, etc.
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Email: Still the One for Developers April 22, 2009 
Email was born sometime between 1965 and 1970, depending on how you define its genesis, and by 1980 it was considered by many to be the killer app. It drove the proliferation of PCs in the workplace and allowed people all over the world to work together. SMS texting and tweeting can take some credit for email's slow decline. However, it remains the most widely used application.
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Microsoft Serves Up Beta of Upcoming Exchange 2010 April 15, 2009 
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a public beta version of Microsoft Exchange 2010. This next version of Microsoft's email server will ship later this year, Microsoft said. The new Exchange version is built around a hybrid design that will form the infrastructure for a hosted email service at home or at the office.
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Enterprise Mobility: An Investment That Works Harder, Smarter April 09, 2009 
The enterprise demand for mobility has remained steady and even increased, despite budgets for mobility initiatives being cut during the current global economic downturn, according to a new Aberdeen Group study "More Mobility -- Less Budget: Enterprise Strategies in the Current Economic Downturn."
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