Social Computing
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Social computing--start small, think big
Insight perspective Don't be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says an analyst. Here's how you can make them work for you.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Wiki, IBM Corp., Social Computing, social networking, IM, network, blog, Web
Asian call centers target for social media
News Call centers, abound in India and Philippines, need to retool and deploy social media tools to say competitive in market, say top Salesforce.com execs.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Facebook, Social Networking, Twitter Inc., Marc Benioff, network, Web 2.0
Intel embraces social networks in phases
News Social workforce is about being open and leveraging "wisdom of crowds", where small work groups aren't conducive for collaboration, says Intel exec.
Tags: Web 2.0, Corporate culture, Personnel management, Best strategies, Generation Y, Intel Corp., Workforce, IT Security, Tool, social networking tool
Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing
News Cloud computing led Gartner's list of ten big technologies to plan for in 2010. Also: mobile apps, desktop virtualization, social networks, green IT.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cloud computing, Computer, Virtualization, Information Technology, mobile, Business Strategies & Functions, Social Computing, Gartner Inc., Cloud computing
HP's CloudPrint heads into BlackBerrys
News HP Labs' e-mail winner CloudPrint came out of the labs' old ad hoc development process even as R&D chief Prith Banerjee pursues a more disciplined approach.
Tags: R&D, Hewlett-Packard Co., RIM BlackBerry, India, Social Computing, computer, printing, HP Labs, revenue, PC
IBM opens 'social software' development center
News Based in Cambridge, Mass., it is designed as a research hub for everything from cloud computing to social search.
Tags: R&D, Business applications, IBM Corp., Social Software, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, venture capital, social search, Dow Jones & Company Inc., internal network
Industry releases content-management interop spec
News Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, EMC, Alfresco and OpenText have released the first draft of their Content Management Interoperability Services specification.
Tags: Content management, SAP AG, Social Computing, Open Source, Archiving, software company, Business Process, Oracle Corp., industry, collaboration
Analyst: IBM needs to 'out-innovate' with Notes
News For Lotus Notes to wrest market share from Microsoft's dominance in e-mail collaboration, IBM needs to place bets on trends before they happen, says Forrester Research.
Tags: E-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, work flow software, Software, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, e-mail, Emerging Market, software-as-a-service
Flat holiday sales for e-tailers?
News This holiday shopping season could mark the first time that online retailers fail to outperform the previous year's sales, say market watchers.
Tags: E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Computer, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, retail company, ComScore Networks Inc., Web
Microsoft dishes out academic grants
News Software giant allocates US$1 million in funding to academic researchers in countries around the world.
Tags: Data security, Security, Software
Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
News The software giant plans to pony up US$240 million for a bigger piece of the action at the hot social-networking site.
Tags: Web 2.0
Microsoft wants to know who your friends are
News The company's research unit looks to help computer users manage the thousands of e-mails and other electronic communiques they get each day. An automatically updated "inner circle" is one approach.
Tags: E-mail servers
Indian state gives all schools IT access
News Most populous Southern Indian state, Andhra Pradesh, is the country's first to provide ICT education to all its 1.8 million school-going children.
Tags: Personal Computers, Virtualization, IT training, School, India, Computer Education, Computer, Government, phone, software
