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Marketcircle offers sneak peek at Daylite Touch
Daylite has already established itself as a pre-eminent organization and business-management tool on the Mac. The application from Marketcircle manages contacts, tracks projects and to-dos, schedules meetings, shares calendars, and essentially keeps everything organized for up to 50 users on individually licensed Macs. More..

17 telecommuting pet peeves
Telecommuting is great. I've been doing it full time for most of 20 years. But it isn't perfect. Working at home has its own set of irritations, some of which aren't well understood-particularly by those who don't telecommute. More..

Yammer, Twitter with muscles and brains
If there's one type of service that the Web really makes effective, it's collaboration systems. The combination of (theoretically) ubiquitous access with multiple additional communications channels (SMS, IM, etc.) makes the potential for integrating workgroups enormous. More..

IBM to offer virtualized view of Lotus Notes
IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of the popular Lotus Notes software. The companies claimed that users would be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine. More..

Microsoft slates 8 bug updates for year's final Patch Tuesday
Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products. More..

Dimdim takes beta tag off conferencing service
Conferencing and collaboration startup Dimdim on Wednesday finally slipped the beta tag off its Web 2.0 service, unveiled new scalable synchronization features and released the source code. More..

10 Microsoft research projects
A sneak peek at 10 technologies developed in Microsoft's R&D labs More..

IBM product aims to reduce IT risk, developer frustration
IBM on Tuesday announced a new suite of software quality tools, the Rational Quality Management Portfolio. The company promises the new tools will improve the software development process and, in particular, ease collaboration between business leaders and IT professionals.  More..

IBM working on Web-based collaboration platform
IBM is working on a platform for collaborative mashups that needs little more than a browser and a server to create a shared environment that includes audio and videoconferencing. More..

How build a successful Unified Communications and Collaboration plan
Verizon Business recently published some suggestions about how build a successful Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) plan, focused on what enterprises need to consider when making the move to unified communications. The tips follow the company's launch of UC&C in September this year. Verizon Business has both premises-based and hosted solutions, along with professional services that support UC&C with planning, consulting, deployment, and ongoing management. More..

Lotus chief defines imminent battle plan
Integration of traditional on-premises Notes-based collaboration, new unified communications tools, Symphony productivity applications, content management, Web-based services and the potential to mash it all together with new-fangled development tools and social networking innovations pouring out of IBM's research labs are just a few of the challenges facing IBM's Lotus Software division chief, Bob Picciano. More..

Magic Johnson discusses video phones, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA
Magic Johnson's businesses rely on Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to communicate, cut costs on plane travel. More..

How to Make UC and Collaboration Work for You
Like many technology buzzwords, unified communications (UC) has had many meanings in its short life. It's now an umbrella term that covers an array of technologies—including instant messaging (IM), web conferencing, IP telephony, expertise identification, e-mail, unified messaging, mobile devices, etc.—that can be delivered behind the firewall or through the computing cloud. More..

IBM exec says bad economy could be good for unified communications
The economy is driving business changes that unified communications can help address -- which means that end users might finally start using the collaboration tools that have been deployed in corporate networks for years, an IBM executive told VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 attendees Wednesday. More..

IBM debuts Lotus Foundations Start appliance
IBM is making another run at Microsoft small and medium-size customers, announcing a software-hardware appliance on Monday that combines an IBM-branded machine with its Lotus Foundations Start collaboration software. More..

Salesforce.com and Google execs blast Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it. More..

Oracle buys IP from Tacit to boost Beehive platform
Seeking to beef up the capabilities of its recently launched Beehive collaboration platform, Oracle said Monday it has bought the intellectual property of Tacit Software and hired all of its software engineers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More..

Social networking changing face of collaboration
An infusion of social software is helping fuel an evolution of enterprise collaboration that will eventually give users more flexible and distributed tools for finding, organizing and sharing data, according to a conference of experts exploring the topic. More..

Yahoo's Zimbra reaches for the cloud
Yahoo's Zimbra, the provider of a communications and collaboration suite that rivals Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange, will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday. More..

Gartner: SaaS enterprise app spending set to soar
Spending on software-as-a-service enterprise applications will top $6.4 billion this year, a 27% jump over 2007, and will catapult to $14.8 billion by 2012, according to the research firm Gartner. More..

Google Apps portal pages malfunctioning
Google Apps administrators are complaining that their Apps "Start" portal pages are malfunctioning and wreaking havoc in their organizations. More..

Microsoft to release OCS 2007 update in February
Microsoft plans to add VoIP, collaboration and Web presence enhancements to the next version of its unified communications software, which is due out in early February 2009. More..

British start-up to launch pro Web collaboration service
A British startup is preparing to launch an enterprise version of a Web-based collaboration service with a screen-sharing feature that lets a person interact with an application on someone else's computer. More..

Why security pros hate SharePoint, and what to do about it
Microsoft SharePoint has many fans these days, but Andre Koot isn't among them. More..

HP, Tandberg team for soup-to-nuts telepresence
HP and Tandberg are uniting to provide a single source for telepresence gear as well as installation and monitoring. More..