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Messaging and Online Collaboration News & Reviews

eWEEK Messaging and Collaboration coverage includes news and reviews on instant messaging, text messaging, Unified Communications, chat, workflow, knowledge and information sharing, automated alerts, SMS, Web conferencing, online meetings, decision making and wikis. eWEEK also watches Messaging and Collaboration vendors and products such as Microsoft Communications Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe, Documentum, IBM, Microsoft, Intuit, Oracle, vignette, ICQ, Jabber and LAN Messenger


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Google+ Saw Half as Many Unique Visitors as Twitter

Google+ had 20 million unique visitors in December, or nearly half that of microblog Twitter, said Compete. We're still hazy on user engagement, however.

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Oracle Taleo Buy Targets SAP, Salesforce.com

Oracle's $1.9 billion bid for Taleo follows SAP's $3.4 billion play for SuccessFactors and Salesforce.com's acquisition of Rypple in the burgeoning sector for cloud-based human capital management software.

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Yahoo Chairman Bostock's Departure Exemplifies Company Problems

Analysis: Key executive is the latest to exit in a protracted shake-up at the beleaguered Web search and services company as it regroups to regain investor confidence.

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Google Search Share Back to 66% as Yahoo Swoons

Google gained search share, moving to 66.2 percent, according to comScore. Yahoo dropped to 14.1 percent while Microsoft edged up a notch to 15.2 percent.

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EPIC Sues FTC Over Google Privacy Policy Flap

The Electronic Information Privacy Center is suing the FTC to get it to stop Google's privacy policy changes, which commence March 1.

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Adobe Delivers Beta 6 of Muse Website Creation Tool for Designers

Adobe announced beta 6 of its Muse tool that enables designers to build Websites without coding. Muse Beta 6 is a key release that sets the tone for the commercial availability of the technology.

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Google Apps Marketplace Gets WorkSimple Social Goals App

WorkSimple, a social goal performance tool that competes with SuccessFactors and Rypple, is now available from the Google Apps Marketplace.

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Adobe Flash Player Protected Mode Beta Released for Firefox

Adobe has taken another step to secure Windows users from malicious Flash code by releasing a beta plug-in of Flash Player with a built-in sandbox for Firefox.

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Google Launches Google+ Developers Page

Google announced the launch of a new Google+ Developers page where developers can go to get and share information about developing for the Google+ platform.

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Facebook Cagey About Mobile Monetization

Facebook will bank on mobile advertising to make money from mobile, and won't likely build out a mobile OS or market hardware (as some suspect), analysts told eWEEK.

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Google Solve For X Targets Tech's 'Moonshot' Challenges

Google's We Solve for X event and Website are designed to enable some of the world's top thinkers to propose and collaborate on using technology to solve worldwide problems.

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Facebook Users Get More Information Than They Give: Pew

Facebook users like to get more information than they give on the world's leading social network, according to a small Pew Internet Project study. The question is how Facebook can boost user engagement beyond just power users.

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Google, Facebook Fierce Tech Rivalry Looms: 10 Reasons Why

NEWS ANALYSIS: Google and Facebook have their gun sights set on each other. As Facebook gains huge new riches with its initial public stock offering, the competition between these two giants is likely to become fierce and even nasty.

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Facebook Scammers Create Fake Profiles to Spam Users, Click-Jacking

Scammers are using automated techniques to generate tons of fake profiles to trick users into joining scams and clicking on malicious links, Barracuda Networks found.

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Consult A Doctor to License Its Telehealth Platform to Hospitals, Clinics

At the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, telehealth vendor Consult A Doctor will introduce new cloud-based virtual exam models that hospitals and clinics can implement and customize to suit their requirements.

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