For many companies, collaboration remains the Holy Grail. Key players include Citrix, Cisco and Microsoft as well as many startups aiming to bring collaboration to the enterprise. The big question: Will collaboration be a new market or a feature in larger enterprise applications from the likes of Oracle and SAP?
Webex Teams takes all of the collaboration features in Cisco Spark and offers them alongside features based on the Webex conferencing platform.
Germany's federal government settles on an open-source collaboration system for employees.
Microsoft is moving more product groups under Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore, sources say, as part of its cross-platform experience strategy.
"We're making Slack great," says engineering VP Michael Lopp. "We're making this experience of reimagining how work is done. That's the only thing we're focused on."
Latest Stack Overflow survey of 100,000-plus developers finds the highest salaries and interest levels in DevOps methodologies and artificial intelligence
Connecting the dots: Here are some of the whys and hows around Microsoft's latest reorg -- and especially how it affects Windows and Devices.
With the accelerating pace of change in technology and the arrival of cloud services, the focus has shifted away from IT doing everything in-house, and toward outsourcing work to vendors. However, an increase...
The chief information officer role is changing as corporate business expectations grow larger. A disruptive cloud pioneer shares advice on digital transformation, culture change, and technology investment specifically for IT organizations.
Innovation and disruption are constants in technology but the impact is huge in every industry. A cloud computing pioneer shares his views on innovation and offers advice to Chief Information Officers.
The integration will enable employees to access a bevy of Workday's HR services without leaving the Slack app.
Microsoft is ready to roll out its updated Outlook.com web mail -- plus the related Calendar and contacts features -- over the next few weeks.
We seem to spend most of our working lives on conference calls, but are they as productive -- or as secure -- as we are led to believe?
The bots will roll out separately, with expenses available in public beta today and the travel bot slated to arrive within the next few months.
Dropbox also agreed to sell $100 million in stock to Salesforce Ventures in a private placement following the IPO.
Microsoft is going public with some of the coming new features for its Teams service, and says there are now 200,000 organizations using the product.
'We're living in the golden age of user experience.' But it takes an enterprise to deliver superior UX..
Let's take a stroll through Logitech's new video labs for optical and audio testing in Silicon Valley.
How can the social networking site Twitter be used to further your job search?
What better way to welcome back coworkers from an extended vacation than an amusing practical joke?
Addicted to Words with Friends? Yeah, me, too. Prepare to laugh at yourself and every other WwF addict as some (or all) of the following realizations sink in!
Censorship acts like SOPA have rocked the foundations of the Internet community, and now thanks to Wednesday's blackout collaboration more people are aware of the dangers of this legislation. However, people also like to make light of a bad situation, and this selection of memes is the proof.
The private sector makes billions in revenue through sales of its covert technologies to state agencies. But what can the technology actually do?
Android is a very popular mobile operating system, especially with low cost tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet available for less than $250. You can view, edit, and create Office documents with the six applications shown in this image gallery.
A look back at some of the major controversies to grip the world's largest social network over the past few months. Is Facebook teetering on the edge of collapse?
Using the GPS location and social networking functionality in smartphones is leading to innovate applications and services to help out your fellow human being. Two new services, currently both running on iOS, created from startup companies are now available to help you find the best food to eat and drink to consume. Nosh and Oink integrate social networking and an awards system to encourage you to participate too.
E-mail notifications are an important part of social networking services like Facebook. If you have to continually visit a web site to see what's new, you lose much of the excitement that comes with comments on your photos or other shared items. You might miss invitations to events or opportunities to connect with a long-lost friend who's in town for a day or two.But e-mail notifications are also a potential security risk. If a potential attacker can create a realistic-looking imitation of a Facebook notification, you might find yourself clicking on a link that can lead to malware or attempt to steal your login credentials.Spotting a fake isn't as easy as it seems. I've assembled four Facebook notifications that arrived in my e-mail inbox recently. Which are real, and which are fake? Answers are in the caption beneath each screen shot.
Facebook is rolling out a major revamp to its privacy settings. The changes affect what you see on your profile as well as when you share content on the social network.
At the end of a job, or after leaving university, your email may not automatically follow you on your next endeavour, but it is possible to ensure they are migrated to another provider.
College is coming to an end for many, and so will your email accounts. This guide will show you how to keep your old college emails.
The Apple iPad is a great for having fun and being entertained, but it also functions very well as a mobile work platform. This year we are looking at the 6 best Office apps/suites. Since there are no trials available we present you with over 100 screenshots and an extensive article, including summary tables, to help you make the most informed decision for your needs.
A series covering Office 365 in depth: in this screenshot gallery, the administration console to manage all of your cloud-based services.
Google splits Hangouts video-conferencing and chat capabilities into two distinct meeting and collaboration apps.
The Internet Archive has been collecting websites, books, music, software and other materials for the last 20 years. This is what it's like to be inside their real-life location.
From Microsoft Office Videos: Introducing Microsoft Teams, the chat-based workspace in Office 365.
Google's Jamboard is a hardware/software touch-display appliance that seems to be aimed squarely at Microsoft's Surface Hub.
Affordable HD video conferencing for up to 20 people.
IT professionals are under pressure to do more with less and many are now turning to the cloud as an efficient way to meet the demands of a changing workforce. This video and The Top Ten Tech Series is sponsored by Microsoft Office 365.
In honor of the print edition of Encyclopedia Britannica's passing into the digital pages of the history books, we discuss new media's age old question: is print dead yet (or is it merely a walking zombie)? Craigslist has decimated a valued profit center in the world of printed newspapers. Printed books have given way to Kindle readers on every street corner. Glossy magazines are desperately trying to find new life in interactive iPad editions. Meanwhile, most specialty trade and technical publications long ago felt the need to jump to the Web. And now, despite almost of decade of Britannica's experts screaming into the wind that Wikipedia wasn't a legitimate source ...
The use of email is deeply connected with paper rituals that humans have clung to despite the digital age making them redundant, according to Intel director, Interaction and Experience Research, Genevieve Bell.
Overflowing email boxes are a symptom of employees using it for unrepeatable processes that have no workflow templates, according to IBM Alistair Rennie.
Society needs to get a grip on how much email is actually costing the workforce in terms of attention and time, according to Intel director, Interaction and Experience Research, Genevieve Bell.
At the TechLines future of email debate held this month, IBM general manager of Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal Alistair Rennie said that social networking will be useful in the business, not necessarily for communications purposes, but rather to glean data to improve the workforce.
Everyone complains about the volume of email and says they can never be on top of it, but according to a recent technology panel discussing the future of email, that's because we're not using the technology properly.
Technology has a controlling effect on the human psyche, according to panellists speaking at last week's TechLines future of email debate.
From the Google IPO, to the rise of social networking, it's been an important decade for tech innovation, CBSNews.com Executive Editor Charles Cooper talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan about the five most important tech events of the decade and what they mean for the technology industry going forward.
If you want attention online, then mention that you have a couple of Google Wave invites to giveaway and watch all manner of people you've never met pander to be worthy of your generosity. But what about in the real world? Do people even know what Google Wave is?
Improved audio quality and optional extension microphones equip Logitech's latest ConferenceCam to handle large meeting rooms.
An interface overhaul and faster operation make version 11 of TeamViewer even more usable.
It's not cheap, but this wireless headset delivers excellent sound, and is very comfortable to wear.
Plug-N-Play USB Video Conference Camera System
As long as you find the cloud integration useful rather than intrusive, this is a much-improved version of Acrobat with better access to its powerful tools.
Thunderbird 2 provides a compelling option for users looking for an open source e-mail client.
ASUS enters the local smartphone arena with a bang -- the P525 quad-band PDA looks to be a great companion for the mobile professional.
The BlackBerry 7130e is an expensive undertaking, but if you're a mobile professional the cost is undoubtedly justified.
As a tool for the e-mail-centric, the BlackBerry wins plenty of praise on its own merits and the addition of wireless modem functionality further sweetens the deal.
For business users needing to keep in touch with the office on the road, the A1000 is a viable option. Others may find that life is too short to wait for applications to load.
Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
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