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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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Facebook will generate $500 million in revenue this year, said Netscape founder Mark Andreessen, who serves on the social-networking site’s board. With its growing user base of 225 million users, Facebook has publicly suggested that its primary focus will be on expanding its community as opposed to figuring out the most ideal models for revenue generation. Andreessen also believes that Facebook has the potential to generate "billions" in revenue in coming years.
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz launch a new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, with an initial fund of $300 million.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer's share of the browser market has fallen for versions 6 and 7 over the past year, with IE 8 steadily rising over the past few months. At the same time, Firefox 3.0 gained market share before leveling off within the past month, while Safari, Chrome and other browsers occupy single-digit territory, according to a new report by StatCounter.
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Apple iPods could feature cameras in future versions, according to rumors that suggest Apple has begun ordering iPod cases structured to hold a camera lens. Apple's mobile devices have powered its bottom line and prestige, with its iPhone 3GS smartphone selling over 1 million units in its first three days of release, and over a billion downloads from its App Store.
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The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider its testing model.
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Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. In-box socialization is table stakes for software makers that want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier for workers to find company colleagues.
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Mozilla plans to release a patched version of its latest browser, to be named Firefox 3.5.1, in response to certain bugs that have revealed themselves following Firefox 3.5's June 30 release. Firefox 3.5 offers new features such as extensive support for HTML 5, faster speeds than previous versions, and support for JSON and Web worker threads.
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Facebook's move to simplify and create more granular controls was met with skepticism by industry analysts, who believe the social network wants to get users' profile data on the broader Web to be indexed by search engines from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Ideally, Web advertising opportunities would follow, but Facebook isn't going down that road yet.
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Security researchers at Symantec and Sophos are reporting the prevalence of spam related to the death of pop star Michael Jackson last week. Rather than relying on just their normal Independence Day-related e-mails, spammers have launched a number of campaigns to infect users with malware using news about the singer as a lure.
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Microsoft has ended its Windows Live Butterfly program, which provided a forum for IT pros to play with the betas of the newest Microsoft products before their public release. For those users, Microsoft is offering a number of new options, including MVP program membership and access to future beta testing.
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Internet servers such as MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed this week.
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Online advertisers are proposing a mix of consumer education, disclosures about what information is being collected and special protections for children and sensitive information in an effort to head off tough legislation.
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Tour smartphone will arrive on the Sprint 3G network July 12, in addition to the Verizon Wireless network. The Tour, a world phone priced at $199, will operate on different wireless spectrums for each carrier, but offer customers of each access to voice and data services in hundreds of countries.
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Microsoft adds real-time search capabilities to its Bing search engine as it seeks to knock Google from its search perch. Now users can use Bing to find the latest Twitter tweets from celebrities and other persons of note, including high-tech journalists. The move comes as startups CrowdEye, Collecta and others are propagating the Web with real-time search.
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Facebook looks to make a splash with changes designed to simplify and standardize its privacy settings. The push to improve privacy comes as Facebook is working to make profiles more searchable over the Web.
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Video conferencing is traditonally touted as a money-saving technology in a down economy. Companies can slash their travel budgets by using video conferencing, but meeting with partners and suppliers outside of your own network requires interoperability of video conferencing systems. eWEEK Labs tests the ability of two very different systems to work together.
REVIEW: The LifeSize Room 200 system provides organizations with impressive high-definition videoconferencing and the ability to natively host multiparty conferences. Different levels of HD-quality videoconferencing will accommodate various bandwidth needs.
REVIEW: Polycom’s QDX 6000 video conferencing units are not HD-capable, but they are easy to set up and configure, and offer many options for adding content. At $3,999, the QDX 6000--which leverages H.323--is a compelling choice for smaller offices or businesses.
Twitter and Facebook provide a plethora of efficient collaboration and messaging capabilities, but businesses have been hesitant to officially use these services in-house for security and control issues. Socialcast, Socialtext and Huddle are three services designed to offer the features of Twitter, Facebook and other Web 2.0 technologies in a way that is palatable to the enterprise.
REVIEW: Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server ties together BlackBerry devices and management infrastructure with Google’s for-pay e-mail services. However, in the BlackBerry’s native e-mail application, Google can’t offer all the services and features users have come to expect from Gmail.
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