http://www.eweek.com Messaging and Collaboration - RSS Feeds en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:11:49 -0400 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:11:49 -0400 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:56 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Apps-Opens-Up-Contacts-to-Socialize-The-Enterprise-358169/?kc=rss - For Google Apps users who have been waiting for the software-as-a-service suite to resemble some of today's social networks for businesses, Google is surfacing Gmail contacts more readily within companies. When corporate employees search for a contact in Gmail, they'll see relevant contacts from ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Apps-Opens-Up-Contacts-to-Socialize-The-Enterprise-358169/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:44:05 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Cisco-Taking-a-Page-From-Twitter-to-Compete-in-Collaboration-713952/?kc=rss - Cisco Systems is putting the finishing touches on integrating its Jabber instant messaging assets into its WebEx Connect suite and will likely add a Twitter-like status update tool to that suite, a company official told eWEEK June 30. Cisco WebEx Connect is a SAAS (software as a service) collabo...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Cisco-Taking-a-Page-From-Twitter-to-Compete-in-Collaboration-713952/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:21:59 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Zoho-Adds-Twitter-Feature-Visualization-Tool-to-Zoho-Projects-20-415219/?kc=rss - Zoho on July 1 released a new version of its Zoho Projects project management software, adding a Twitter-like user status tool, a project visualization tool and the ability to create a project in Microsoft Project and import it to Zoho Projects. Zoho Projects 2.0, intended to comp...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Zoho-Adds-Twitter-Feature-Visualization-Tool-to-Zoho-Projects-20-415219/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:10 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Fixes-Glitches-in-Google-Apps-Sync-for-Microsoft-Outlook-Plugin-599757/?kc=rss - Microsoft Windows Desktop Search and Windows Live Hotmail users can rejoice. The search tool and Webmail client are no longer broken when used with the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook plug-in, which Google released June 9 to help Microsoft Outlook users access their Google Apps e-mail, c...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Fixes-Glitches-in-Google-Apps-Sync-for-Microsoft-Outlook-Plugin-599757/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:34 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Wales-Denies-Censoring-Wikipedia-Over-Journalist-Rohdes-Kidnapping-497337/?kc=rss - Jimmy Wales has spent a lot of time defending his brainchild Wikipedia, the world's leading Website where citizen Web users can anonymously contribute entries on anything from the history of the hot dog to celebrity biographies. Wikipedia founder Wales' crusade continued this week i...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Wales-Denies-Censoring-Wikipedia-Over-Journalist-Rohdes-Kidnapping-497337/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:08:43 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Colligo-Brings-File-EMail-Management-to-Microsoft-SharePoint-741406/?kc=rss - Colligo Networks, a software integrator that moves data storage and synchronization functions from the server to the desktop for IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint customers, June 29 added two applications to its latest Contributor for SharePoint package. Contributor for SharePoint 4.0 no...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Colligo-Brings-File-EMail-Management-to-Microsoft-SharePoint-741406/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:41:33 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Michael-Jacksons-Death-Causes-Web-Traffic-Surge-863689/?kc=rss - Traffic to both news and social-networking sites spiked following the death of Michael Jackson on the afternoon of June 25. The Los Angeles Times reported that its Website experienced a massive inflow of traffic, with some 2.3 million page views in one hour; simultaneously, the number of quo...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Michael-Jacksons-Death-Causes-Web-Traffic-Surge-863689/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:51:40 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/White-Supremacist-Blogger-Arrested-680596/?kc=rss - A New Jersey Internet talk show host and blogger was arrested June 24 based quot;on a Federal complaint ... alleging that he made Internet postings threatening to assault and murder three federal appeals court judges in Chicago, quot; according to an FBI news release. The postings included photo...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/White-Supremacist-Blogger-Arrested-680596/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:50:01 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Top-US-Executives-Snub-Facebook-Blogs-678877/?kc=rss - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The heads of the top U.S. companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they're switched off when it comes to social media, according to a new study that said CEOs should be more connected to their customers. Research conducted by the blog UberCEO.com looked at Fortune's...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Top-US-Executives-Snub-Facebook-Blogs-678877/?kc=rss Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:06:38 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/How-to-Help-Users-Connect-with-Unified-Communications/?kc=rss - As more and more companies adopt unified communications due to its collaboration and cost benefits, it's critical to remember that user adoption will ultimately determine if UC deployments are successful. Users can be hesitant to accept new applications, even if they're simpler and more effective ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/How-to-Help-Users-Connect-with-Unified-Communications/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:25 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Socialtext-Combats-Crummy-Economy-With-Freemium-Wiki-Service-798376/?kc=rss - Enterprise wiki pioneer Socialtext is extending an olive branch to customers in cost-constrained times, offering a wiki desktop application free for up to 50 users within a business. Announced at the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston June 23, the Socialtext Free 50 service will let employees crea...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Socialtext-Combats-Crummy-Economy-With-Freemium-Wiki-Service-798376/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:07:44 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Zoho-Fashions-New-SAAS-to-OnPremise-Plugin-For-Microsoft-SharePoint-550301/?kc=rss - In the latest marriage of the cloud computing and on-premises software worlds, Zoho June 23 released Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint, a software module that will let Zoho Office users create new documents and save them to SharePoint in Microsoft Office formats. The plug-in, which users can...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Zoho-Fashions-New-SAAS-to-OnPremise-Plugin-For-Microsoft-SharePoint-550301/?kc=rss Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:59:49 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/IBM-Touts-LotusLive-Connections-Social-Cloud-at-Enterprise-20-330140/?kc=rss - One of the bugbears of collaboration software tools released in the '90s was that they were walled off from one another. You might have a number of communication tools in an intranet portal, but they didn't communicate with one another well. Each application was a silo unto itself. Today in 200...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/IBM-Touts-LotusLive-Connections-Social-Cloud-at-Enterprise-20-330140/?kc=rss Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:26:29 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Video-Software-Maker-Veodia-Buys-Screentoaster-443153/?kc=rss - Veodia, which makes Web video software that lets business workers communicate with each other through a Web browser, June 19 said it has purchased screen capture specialist ScreenToaster. ScreenToaster's Web software lets consumers capture their screen activity and share it as vid...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Video-Software-Maker-Veodia-Buys-Screentoaster-443153/?kc=rss Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:46:04 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Apps-Synch-Tool-Breaks-Microsoft-Outlook-Search-876258/?kc=rss - Underscoring the trickiness of getting Web-based and desktop applications to work together, Microsoft said June 16 that Google's Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook synchronization tool disables Microsoft's Windows Desktop Search feature for searching in Outlook. Google June 9 released Google Apps Sync...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Apps-Synch-Tool-Breaks-Microsoft-Outlook-Search-876258/?kc=rss