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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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Google Feb. 9 made its most aggressive move against Facebook and Twitter yet, launching Google Buzz to let users post status updates and share Picasa photos, YouTube videos, links and other content right in Gmail. Google Buzz will automatically push updates to Gmail users from fellow users with whom they exchange e-mail and engage in chat sessions. Responses to Buzz posts publish straight to users' Gmail accounts in real-time, making the feature more relevant at a time when users have become accustomed to instant feedback on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and other social sites. Users for whom Google has activated Buzz for will see a new "Buzz" link under "Inbox" in their Gmail account.
Opinion
Managing the boundaries, practices, policies and technology associated with a shift to Internet applications raises questions around the growing overlap between personal and corporate identity.
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Samsung launched the Monte on the same day LG Electronics introduced the Mini, which it says is now the thinnest full touch-screen phone on the market. LG’s stated goals include toppling either Samsung or Nokia by 2012.
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NEC's Univerge Sphericall software, a solution that combines the basic communications needs with the power of unified communications tools, gets an upgrade.
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SAP's new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and restoring a sense of trust in the enterprise applications maker among SAP employees, partners and customers, according to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the company's Supervisory Board.
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News Analysis: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone.
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Facebook turned 6 years old Feb. 4. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly told the world that the leading social network now has more than 400 million users. To celebrate the birthday, Facebook also began rolling out changes to the homepage. Though currently visible to only 80 million of the site's users worldwide, the changes are significant signs that the company is looking to improve the site's search and overall usability. See some of the changes, which will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, in this eWEEK slideshow.
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Facebook will no longer be serving banner ads from Microsoft, but this isn't a sign that relations between the companies have grown cold. A Facebook spokesperson said ad formats that feature social actions, or social ads, perform better and can be targeted to the site's 400 million users based on the info they provide about themselves on the site. Altimeter Group analyst Charlene Li wondered if and when Microsoft and Facebook will partner to let Facebook offer social ads, via the Facebook Connect application to extend the social network to third parties, to partner publishers that want to serve social ads on their sites.
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Apple has been touting its iPad since it was first announced a few weeks ago. But after the hype wears off and we take an honest look at the iPad, we quickly find that there are some major flaws with the company's tablet device that it just doesn't want us to know about. When a consumer picks up the iPad expecting a top-of-the-line experience, they might be surprised to learn that it can't quite provide that. They might be even more upset when they find out that the iPad isn't as appealing as Steve Jobs wants the world to believe. So before you pick one up, let's take a look at what Apple doesn't want you to know about the iPad.
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Amazon.com and Macmillan Book Group have likely reached an agreement on price control, as the e-retailer relisted the publisher's titles over the weekend.
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Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said the search engine company will release a version of Google Voice for businesses, roll out Google Wave to all users who want it, and may deliver as many as 200 new features to Google Apps this year. Google Voice offered as part of Google Apps could be a powerful combination for businesses in the market for a UCC (unified communications and collaboration) suite, particularly at a time when companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for UCC from Microsoft or IBM. Google will also release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010.
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The HTML5 specification is the much-discussed, much-anticipated follow-on to HTML4, which has grown a little long in the tooth for the kinds of Web applications developers are creating today and aspire to create in the future. HTML5 will enable a whole new class of Web applications that support multimedia content and offline capability without the need for proprietary plug-in technology.
Review
Research In Motion's BlackBerry Presenter lets smartphone users stream PowerPoint slide decks from their BlackBerry phones to an external monitor or projector via a wireless connection. While the BlackBerry Presenter in eWEEK Labs' tests typically worked for presentations of all sizes, including those with embedded animations and transitions, early generation glitches and inconsistencies make it hard to trust that the device will work as expected during critical presentations.
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Facebook, which turned six Feb. 4 and has more than 400 million users, improved its search engine and made several navigational changes to its homepage. The search bar, currently to the right for the majority of the site's users, is being moved to the center of the page, sitting above the News Feed in the top menu. Users will see their newest notifications, requests and messages in the top menu. The changes, designed to improve the social network's usability, will roll out gradually to all users and could spark an outcry from people who have gotten comfortable since the company's last major homepage change in October 2009.
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Microsoft announced as of April 15 the company will discontinue the Xbox Live online play service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals.
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Liaise is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook designed to ease task and project management for individuals and teams through e-mail. The product shows some promise, but performance and other issues may make it more hinderance than help.
Sure, the developer preview is rough. But Google Wave's innovative collaboration metaphor, its customizability and its potential as a protocol make it compelling as a next-gen productivity tool.
In its current, developer preview form, Google Wave doesn't live up to the hype that has surrounded it since its announcement. But, based on eWEEK Labs' tests, the collaboration platform could be leveraged by inventive developers to provide a new level of Web 2.0 engagement.
Xobni Plus--the paid service upgrade to the free Xobni--provides advanced search, indexing and filtering capabilities that allow users to work more efficiently in Microsoft Outlook.
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.
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