In the U.S. market and others where homes are saturated with televisions and DVD players, video content is a predominant part of consumers' daily lives, analysts said.
The next version of this professional-level blogging solution boasts a revamped interface, an open-source licensing option, and an impressive range of new features.
Mobile IM can be a powerful productivity tool, but IT groups are prone to dismiss it as a consumer-focused novelty. Here's why you should keep this technology on your radar.
The Wi-Fi-based iFind provides a novel way to let groups of people find one another, set up meeting times or work together. Although ideal for a campus environment, iFind could have plenty of commercial practicalities as well.
Microsoft's Office Communications Server aims to take the mystery out of business communication by weaving presence information into multiple applications. But are we talking improved communications or shades of "Big Brother"?
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On Network Computing's Messaging and Collaboration Channel, our real-world technology editors cover the products, technologies and services that enable users to communicate more effectively with one another -- things like e-mail, instant messaging, video conferencing, blogging, podcasting, wikis, Web collaboration and more. The Web has revolutionized enterprise communications, and so-called Web 2.0 technologies have taken those capabilities to yet another level. E-mail remains the key enterprise communications tool, but users expect more and more out of their enterprise electronic mail systems. Long-time enterprise mail solutions such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange and Outlook continue to serve the enterprise well. But users today are also looking for more flexible solutions, whether it is Web-based email alternatives such as Google's Gmail or mobile solutions from Blackberry, Palm, Microsoft and others. Instant messaging has long been established as a messaging mainstay. For IT, IM presents unique challenges including security, accountability and more. Enterprise IM systems help IT take control of enterprise-wide instant messaging. Finally, our editors are covering the emergence of completely new Web 2.0 approaches to enterprise communications that put the user at the center of a social media experience. Blogs provide users the ability to broadcast their written messages to the world, with packages such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress proving blogging platforms for the masses -- and the enterprise. Podcasting and videocasting lets users express themselves via multimedia. Wikis provide a collaborative, interactive environment for editing and updating content. And finally, new Web 2.0 technologies like social media sites, remix approaches to creating content and open social media APIs offer new, powerful ways of creating messaging and collaboration applications. On our messaging and collaboration channel, learn about all these new technologies and more. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of messaging and collaboration software and tools. And don't miss the latest news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of messaging and collaboration.
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