
Is there anyone reading this week’s column who is yet to deliver a TEDx talk or INK lecture or Think address or some such public deposition of eclectic wisdom? No? I thought not. In fact, I am wondering if these events have become so ubiquitous that the coolness spectrum has…

As with so many other industries — medical tourism, electric cars, phablets — Asia is widely considered to be the future of the Internet. There is, however, one very big "if": If only the continent’s governments can get over their tendencies toward overregulation and censorship. Almost half the world’s Web…

NewsGator wants its Social Sites add-on for SharePoint to handle companies’ innovation cycles with a beefed-up set of capabilities for brainstorming, idea evaluation, concept development and execution. Social Sites, an enterprise social networking (ESN) product, has an existing "ideation" module that’s called Idea Stream and is mainly for brainstorming, but…

Novosoft enriched the functionality of their key software solution Handy Backup with the advanced IBM Lotus Notes backup features. Alliance, OH, October 18, 2013 –(PR.com)– Novosoft LLC, one of the leading providers of backup solutions for home and corporate environments, has launched advanced IBM Lotus Notes/Domino backup functionality for their…

NewsGator wants its Social Sites add-on for SharePoint to handle companies’ innovation cycles with a beefed-up set of capabilities for brainstorming, idea evaluation, concept development and execution. Social Sites, an enterprise social networking (ESN) product, has an existing "ideation" module that’s called Idea Stream and is mainly for brainstorming, but…

Bayside City Council has implemented an EzeScan production batch scanning solution to assist with its long term migration towards electronic document and records management for over 500 users. Hugging Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne’s south, the council has been implementing a HP TRIM EDRMS over recent years and steadily replacing manual…

Santa Clara, Calif.Business communications company Avaya Inc. introduced new software and collaboration services for the enterprise market. The software and cloud-based products include Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, a new software platform that integrates social, mobile and cloud-based cooperation with business applications; Avaya IP Office 9.0, business software for the…

IDG News Service – In another example of the blurred lines between business and personal computing, Whirlpool chose Google Apps because it’s convinced Google’s focus on consumers gives it a special innovation edge as a provider of enterprise software. The way Whirlpool sees it, battling in the ferociously competitive and…

The widespread adoption of Microsoft Lync and Cloud-based unified communications (UC) are two major factors contributing to the changing face of the UC environment, according to analyst firm, Frost and Sullivan. Latest research indicates the on-premise unified communications market experienced 2.4 per cent growth in 2012, with market worth pinned The moderate…

The concept of unified communications (UC) voice, video, chat, email and collaboration all delivered over a single IP connection has been hyped for more than a decade, but takeup rates remain low. Will shifting those services into the cloud make them more appealing to businesses? Globe picture from Shutterstock No-one…