Solving the Virtual World Interoperability ProblemDespite the popularity of SecondLife, there are in fact several such services on the market today. Enabling interoperabilty between There, Entropia Universe, Moove, Habbo Hotel, and Kaneva could go along way towards promoting the Virtual World industry.February 20, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Social Enterprise
New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and BusinessDave Elchoness has a vision – a hallway that will reach around the globe. Well, maybe not exactly that, but the former outsourcing executive from Qwest talks about the "global hallway", a virtual space where users can meet from around the globe.February 14, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Enterprise Software
Join Me for Team Building in SecondLifeIBM Research has been working for some time on bringing the team building exercises to SecondLife. Instead of taking off a week now you and your team can take a few hours and gain the same benefits, at least IBM hopes.February 13, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in CXO
Sametime and OCS ComparedBrent Kelly from Wainhouse Research has done a great job comparing and contrasting Lotus Sametime and Microsoft OCS 2007. The biggest differences?February 12, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Microsoft
Blackberry problem solved - now what?RIM identified the problem that caused Monday’s blackout, yesterday, but how IT will respond is still an open question.Rim reported yesterday that an early investigation pointed to a problem with an upgrade of a data routing system.February 12, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in BlackBerry
RIM CEO: The Geeks Did It!Reuters is reporting that the CEO of RIM is attributing the outage that hit North American email network to problem in a service upgrade:"At the core virtually all these things tend to happen on service upgrades," Balsillie said in an interview with Reuters at the Mobile World Congress, but he added that the company was still working on getting to the root of the problem.RIM is still investigating the problem.February 11, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in BlackBerry
Why Your Blackberry CrashedDid you miss your Blackberry yesterday? You weren't the only one and here's why and what you can do about it.February 11, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in BlackBerry
Interviewing in SecondLifeInteresting article in the New York Times about companies moving job interviews into SecondLife.The whole virtual world industry has had a lot of folk scratching their heads saying "Gosh, that's cool.February 11, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in CXO
Android Here at LastCisco isn't the only one talking Android. Androids are being spotted at the 3GSM conference, phones using the Google Android operating system that is.February 11, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Cisco
Can Microsoft Mash SOA and UC?The New York Times article about PopFly, Microsoft’s mashup maker, got me thinking about how Microsoft will use mashups and SOA with unified communications (UC). I asked Eric Swift, Microsoft’s senior director of Unified Communications, as much two weeks ago when we met in Redmond First some background.February 10, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Enterprise Software
Microsoft and Google join OpenID, but where's Cisco?TechMeme is reporting that Microsoft, Google, Verisign, and IBM have all joined the OpenID board. Yahoo and Google are involved or getting involved with OpenID.February 7, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Legal
Cisco to Combine Google's Android, UC and Enterprise 2.0I met with Cisco's distinguished engineer Cullen Jennings for unified communications last week, where he showed me a new concept demo that lays out where Cisco is going with mobility and Unified Communications (UC). Think Google's Androidpro ject for the enterprise and you wouldn't be that far off.February 7, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Cisco
CustomerVision Improves Search and More in BizWiki 4.1CustomerVision just announced a bunch of improvements to its enterprise-grade Wiki, BizWiki 4.1.February 4, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Collaboration
What Microsoft's Yahoo Bid Means for ITIn case you missed it, Steve Ballmer mailed Yahoo's board of directors on Friday a love letter proposing an acquisition to the tune of $44.6 billion or $31 per share.February 3, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in Social Enterprise
Does Web 2.0 Need IT?One of the hot topics here at the Web 2.0 Conference and Expo was whether computing resources will remain in the enterprise or migrate into the network.January 31, 2008 by Dave Greenfield in CXO