IBM’s social push indirectly benefits Lotus Notes
IBM’s social business focus will not directly aid its longstanding e-mail client Lotus Notes in regaining market share, but offering a complete package that includes the client in its collaboration software and cloud offerings will help boost adoption, analysts say. Michael Barnes, vice president and research director at Forrester Research,…
Power outage, electrical surges result in interruption of 911 service in …
WASHINGTON The District of Columbia says a power outage led to an approximately 25-minute disruption of the city’s 911 service. The city said in a statement that the 911 service was interrupted at 1:53 p.m. Saturday as a result of a power outage in the southeast part of the city. The Copyright…
Will Social Business be Crippled by Consumer Privacy Rules?
If businesses had already been social in 2008, would the financial crisis have been less severe and crippling? And will looming changes in privacy rules interfere with the changes that might keep that kind of disconnect between businesses and their customers from happening again? I was starting to write about Obama’s…
Yammer plans to boost sales, engineering staff with new funding
IDG News Service – Enterprise social-networking software vendor Yammer plans to beef up its sales and engineering staff with the latest funding infusion from investors, an US$85 million financing round. Yammer will also use the money to boost its advertising and marketing, and it may also acquire other companies to…
Regina Spektor e Bat for Lashes no Super Bock Super Rock
Regina Spektor, Bat for Lashes e Alabama Shakes estao confirmados no cartaz do Super Bock Super Rock. Bat for Lashes e Alabama Shakes estarao na abertura do festival, marcada para dia 5. Quanto a Regina Spektor, tem concerto marcado para 7 de Julho, o ultimo do evento. Estes nomes juntam-se aos ja…
Social Business is About Conversations: The Social Technology Landscape
As mentioned in yesterday’s article, there are two critical considerations for businesses trying to transform into social businesses. We already looked at the business processes that can act as the foundation of a social business. With this article we will explore the technology that drives the change. Some form of…
Georgia Gwinnett College to host USG Social Business Workshop
Georgia Gwinnett College to host USG Social Business Workshop LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., (March 2, 2012) – Georgia Gwinnett College will host six student teams from Georgia colleges and universities for a March 3 Social Business Workshop. The teams will meet with several mentors from Atlanta-area businesses interested in supporting social businesses The teams were…
Esnatech, MAC Source partner to deploy Office-LinX
Voice and data systems integrator MAC Source Communications will be deploying cloud-enabled unified communication solutions vendor Esnatech’s recently updated UC platform, Office-LinX, to enterprises across North America. Office-LinX is interoperable with any voice, mobile and PBX system, and it connects with cloud-based applications such as Google Apps, VMware Zimbra, Salesforce.com…
WeWebU and Zia Announce MobileWorkdesk for iPad and iPhone
WeWebU Software AG, the maker of OpenWorkdesk, and Zia Consulting, a leading Alfresco Platinum partner in the USA, have joined forces to co-develop MobileWorkdesk, an enterprise ready mobile content management solution for the iPad and iPhone. MobileWorkdesk allows users to connect with any CMIS-compliant ECM system and interact with business…
Flying Lotus Cinefamily 2/28/2012
Flying Lotus and Austin PeraltaLive Score of Harry Everett Smith’s "Heaven and Earth Magic" Cinefamily2/28/12 See also: The Time Flying Lotus Pretended To Be A UCLA Physics Major If Flying Lotus’ live score at Cinefamily last night was any indication of the direction of his upcoming fourth album (due this…