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Google's priority inbox

Email overload?  Yeah, us too.  Perhaps Google’s new ‘priority inbox’ for Gmail might help some?

Priority Inbox is Google’s attempt to solve the e-mail woes of Gmail power users. At its core, the feature is an algorithm; Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select the [...]

email messages lost in translation?

Have you ever sent an email full of love, only to have it interpreted by the receiver as if it were full of boiling hate?  Fired off an innocuous late night note to a customer only to read a reply in the morning that would suggest you’d asked about murdering their first born?

Yep, it’s happened [...]

companies suck at utilising social media ..

.. or so say Siemens Enterprise Communications.

PC World — Companies are doing a poor job of using social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to engage their customers and employees. In fact, 70 percent of consumers want to interact with businesses via social media, but only 30 percent of companies are equipped to handle it. [...]

Azure in a box

Microsoft today announced the Windows Azure platform appliance—a Windows Azure cloud-in-a-box system enabling the creation of private Windows Azure systems.

The platform appliance will be an all-in-one combination of server hardware, networking infrastructure, storage, and software. Whilst the exact form of the appliance is still to be determined, the scale will be large: hundreds or thousands [...]

inside the Commonwealth Bank’s cloud

iTNews has posted an interesting interview with Nick Holdsworth, Comm Bank’s EGM of Service Support.  In it, Holdsworth talks about the bank’s approach to Cloud Computing and how they deal with the sheer scale of such a challenge – covering multiple data centres, geographies, systems and an extensive user base.

The bank has settled on a [...]

Cisco to launch Android based tablet

Cisco announced today the Cius, an Android-based seven-inch tablet computer aimed at the enterprise.

The device will feature both front and rear-facing cameras, Cisco TelePresence-compatible video conferencing and access to applications such as Cisco Quad, WebEx and AnyConnect Security VPN Client, as well as access to the Android app store. The launch further diversifies Cisco’s offerings.

The [...]

Salesforce Chatter officially launched

Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world,Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta.

Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff calls the Cloud 2, delivering realtime access to data and information, using social sources, such as YouTube and Twitter.

In Feburary, Chatter was launched in private beta [...]

IBM collaboration software to support iPad

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion of IBM Lotus messaging and collaboration software with the delivery of secure enterprise mail for the Apple iPad. The news was announced at both the Deutsche Notes User Group in Berlin and the Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco.

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler is no charge software that can be [...]

Google on security

Google may currently be up to their what-nots in a wi-fi sniffing drama, but that’s not the only security related topic the company is being forced to address.

With a big push to get enterprises to adopt Google’s Enterprise Apps suite, questions have been raised regarding security of the data, being in the ‘cloud’ as it [...]

Yammer introduces SharePoint integration

It may only be for SharePoint 2007 right now, but Yammer have announced a dedicated WebPart for integration with their Enterprise collaboration technology, negating the need to switch back and forth between the two applications.

This integration brings Yammer conversations into your existing workflow. You’ll be able to collaborate on a document in SharePoint and then [...]