Videoconferencing: From novelty to necessity
President Barack Obama and members of his staff receive an update on Hurricane Sandy via teleconference. (Photo: Pete Souza – White House via CNP) In David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," people find videoconferencing rather vexing. An entire cottage industry grows around surrogates 2-D cutouts, for instance that relieve Sixteen…
Drupal Sponsor Acquia Brings in $68.5 Million of Funding
New round of funding will help build and expand the operations of open source enterprise content management system vendor Acquia. There is a lot of money backing the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind Drupal, today announced its latest round of venture financing….
Watch: Elijah Wood Melds With Machines in Flying Lotus’ ‘Tiny Tortures’ Video
Elijah is overcome by technology in the visually stunning new offering from Flying Lotus. Flying Lotus, in association with Warp Records, has recruited Frodo Baggins himself, Elijah Wood, for the video for "Tiny Tortures," taken from his tremendous new album Until the Quiet Comes. The David Lenandowsky-directed video is a…
IDC: In software market, CRM, virtualization and collaboration show strongest …
November 07, 2012, 12:10 PM The global software market grew 4.7% in the first half of this year to $167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualization and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures released Wednesday by analyst firm IDC. Economic difficulties in Western Europe dragged down the market overall, but…
Uncovering the Channel Play for Unified Communications
One of the most critical steps an author takes when writing a best-selling book is coming up with a solid title that properly conveys the story and draws in prospective readers (motivating them to buy). Without a targeted title and corresponding promotional campaign to capture the attention of teens (and…
Unified Communications as a Service primer: Moving UC to the cloud
Unified Communications as a service (UCaaS) is an increasingly popular way for businesses tooutsource communications and collaboration technologies. Here are the basics:Many companies offer UCaaS As the industry matures, more companies — ranging from Cisco to IBM, and Microsoft to AT&Tand Verizon, to namedrop only a handful out there…
IBM Docs: Rival to Google Apps, Office 365 In December 2012?
IBM Docs, a potential rival to Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365, will likely launch in December 2012, Talkin’ Cloud has heard. Part of IBM SmartCloud, the Docs initiative may empower channel partners and customers with another cloud-based business productivity suite. But is there room for IBM to carve a niche for…
Workshare Acquires Enterprise Social Network Ideaplane for Social Collaboration
Document collaboration software provider, Workshare, is joining the enterprise social network game with their acquisition of IdeaPlane. Similar to Yammer, IdeaPlane focuses on strengthening communication and collaboration for businesses, but is geared towards highly regulated business sectors, such as finance departments. It was founded by former MySpace executive James Fabricant…
VMware Pushes Zimbra Update with New Marketing Campaign
Virtualization kingpin VMware (NYSE: VMW) is promoting its new Zimbra 8.0 messaging and collaboration vehicle to partners, backing the release with a special demand generation campaign to urge solution providers to migrate customers from legacy platforms either to a cloud-based or on-premise edition of the software, according to a blog The…
IBM Drops Lotus Brand, Takes Notes and Domino Forward
IBM has dropped the Lotus brand from its collaboration software products as it prepares to release a new version of Notes and Domino. In a move that has been a long time in the making, IBM is dropping the Lotus brand and moving forward with the IBM brand, only to…