Dion Hinchcliffe moderates the panel of Diane Davidson (director of customer marketing, WebEx Communications), Robert Duffy (online communities strategist, Intel), Mark Finnern[/ta] (SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP), [tag]Josh Hilliker (Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager, Intel) and Mike Walsh (chief executive officer, Leverage Software) during the ...

Keynotes from two Intel executives — David (Dadi) Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher — kicked off Day 2 at Intel’s Fall IDF in San Francisco. First up, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Group. He covered the latest trends in mobile computing, touching on ...

In part 2, Dan Farber continues his moderation of a discussion panel surrounding collaboration and Web 2.0 during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference. Panelists include Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi and Jay Simons.

Dan gets more input about ...

Dan Farber recently moderated the discussion panel surrounding collaboration and Web 2.0 during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference. Panelists include Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi and Jay Simons.

Although collaboration has existed in many forms over a long ...

There are more than 500,000 yellow school buses in the U.S. Those buses, on average, get between 7 and 8 miles per gallon. Imagine if those buses were hybrid buses, capable of a 40-percent increase in fuel efficiency and a 90 percent reduction in particulate matter. Here in California, one ...

For the first time, organizations will be able to measure how well their members work together, using a new Collaboration Calculator. The new Web-based tool, developed by industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan for Verizon Business, is designed to help organizations enhance performance through improved collaboration. PodTech’s Rio Pesino ...

WebOffice is a suite of products from WebEx designed to deliver cost-effective collaboration solutions that make it easy for everyone to work together from anywhere in the world. In this podcast, Derek Peplau, senior product manager for WebOffice at WebEx, presents the WebOffice story, and tells us how ...

If you think secure online collaboration is an impossibility, you may want to talk to Exostar. They’ve built a secure online collaboration network for some of the biggest names in the aerospace and defense industries. And there’s no reason that other verticals can’t take advantage of the Exostar approach.

Footnote.com has the largest collection of digital images from original source documents on the Web. Through a partnership with the U.S. Government’s National Archives and Records Administration, Footnote is digitizing a vast collection of original documents that have been inaccessible to the masses before now.

When it comes to clothing and fashion, one doesn’t usually think of open source ideology and community collaboration. Not true with the founders of BurdaStyle, Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl. Nora and Benedikta have created a destination for sharing clothing patterns, step-by-step fashion making instructions, a passionate community ...

I sit down with Andrew Filev, co-founder of Wrike, to talk about his online collaboration app that is basically a smart email organizer with some added features.

U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Michael Wood, has identified green collaborations between Sweden and the United States as his One Big Thing. In Sweden he has filtered out 30 mind-blowing alternative energy projects that he recently presented to a round table of top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Afterward, he ...

Along with Vista, Microsoft has launched a new version of its Office suite (Office ‘07). One of the key features of Office ‘07 is that it enables enhanced versions of Microsoft’s collaboration software termed SharePoint. Phil Leigh of www.insidedigitalmedia.com speaks with Peter O’Kelly of The Burton Group about ...

Along with Vista, Microsoft has launched a new version of its Office suite (Office ‘07). One of the key features of Office ‘07 is that it enables enhanced versions of Microsoft’s collaboration software, termed SharePoint. Peter O’Kelly of The Burton Group explains why he thinks this is significant.

In recent months, Cisco Systems has been gobbling up online collaboration companies and communities. They bought Five Across in December and purchased Tribe in February, and most recently WebEx in March. Looks like they have a real agenda going, but what? David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies, shares his thoughts.

Online collaboration is expected to become an integral feature of future business software. While Microsoft can integrate its applications with Windows, third party software vendors will need another platform. Inside Digital Media’s Phil Leigh speaks with Shankar Iyer, vice president for strategic initiatives at WebEx.

Online collaboration is expected to become an integral feature of future business software. While Microsoft can integrate its applications with Windows, 3rd party software vendors will need another platform. Cisco and WebEx may have the answer. Shankar Iyer, vice president for strategic initiatives at WebEx, explains how.

WebEx and Microsoft LiveMeeting are great tools for online collaboration. But if all meeting participants can not be present at the appointed time, it is convenient to make a Webcast, or even a podcast, recording of the session available. One good tool is Camtasia software from TechSmith.

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the world’s only application utility that enables on-demand delivery of HPC (high-performance computing) applications over the network. Called Sun Grid Application Catalog, and available through network.com, the utility offers immediate pay-per-use access to 20 unique open source applications with more expected from the 50-100 communities ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and its value for the Enterprise and the role virtualization plays in the Web 2.0 world.

Don Tapscott argues that online collaboration will forever change the way we do business. At least that is the theme of his current best-selling book, Wikinomics. He speaks with authority, having earlier published Paradigm Shift, Digital Capital, and Growing Up Digital.

Email and collaboration services were a frustration for Northwestern University’s student government. The assembly brought the problem to the administration a year ago, specifically recommending Google Apps as a potential solution. The school, now partnering with Google to address the students’ needs, will offer e-mail, calendar and Google Talk, with mailboxes fifty times larger than their previous ones.

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SF Bay Pediatrics has been using Google Apps since last December for the kind of non-sensitive communications that keeps a clinic running smoothly.

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Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff talks about Google Apps.

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Here at the NextGear we normally don’t cover auto racing, but when two legends met at the Chicago Auto Show, we couldn’t let the opportunity pass by.

Ron Fellows is a racing legend, having begun his professioanl racing career in 1986, chalking up wins at Watkins Glen and in ...