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Microsoft SharePoint popularity comes with issues
Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment. More..

Cisco's new CTO talks first impressions
It's been three months since Padmasree Warrior left Motorola to become Cisco's CTO. Since then, she's not been available for interviews - until now. Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy caught up with her at the Cisco Live! customer conference in Orlando. More..

What your team can learn about innovation from The Simpsons
Probably the only technical qualification to put Joel Cohen, a writer and associate producer of The Simpsons, in front of the keynote crowd at the Red Hat Summit in June was that Red Hat Enterprise 5 was used to render some of the animation in The Simpsons movie. But Cohen had surprisingly deep-and quite entertaining-advice about innovation and the creative process to offer the conference attendees. More..

Verizon expands global unified communications services
Verizon Business is expanding its unified communications services to several European countries in move that the company says will help "advance global collaboration." More..

Web 2.0: How Wachovia justified wikis, blogs, others
Having trouble justifying to your company's top brass why you should make investments in internal Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks? If so, take notes from Pete Fields, senior vice president of the Charleston, N.C-based bank's e-commerce division. More..

Momentum, some confusion mark 'Enterprise 2.0'
About 1,200 people are expected to attend this year's Enterprise 2.0 show, set to begin Monday in Boston, a rise of about 20 percent, according to the conference's organizer, Steve Wylie. More..

Understanding what Google Apps is (and isn't)
When Google launched its Web-based e-mail service ( Gmail) on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, and perhaps with good reason. That same day, the company had posted plans to open a research facility on the moon. More..

The importance of SOA for business intelligence
Business intelligence tools have become mission-critical and, as a result, there is growing demand for wider accessibility across the organization.  More..

Adobe shows off hosted collaboration tools, Flash integration in Acrobat 9
Adobe Monday introduced Acrobat.com, a palette of hosted collaboration tools, and unveiled Acrobat 9, which features the first built-in integration with Flash.  More..

CIOs look beyond Web 2.0
Panelists chewing over the role of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, at MIT’s annual CIO Symposium, said it’s already a thing of the past. What’s happening now is being built atop the early Web 2.0 technologies. More..

Chambers banks Cisco's future on Web 2.0
Cisco's John Chambers says Web 2.0 is the future of his company and the industry. More..

Lotus Notes gets SharePoint integration
Mainsoft has introduced an add-on that allows Lotus Notes users to interact directly with content such as Microsoft Office files stored on Microsoft SharePoint sites. More..

Cisco Q3 report card: Lots of A's and B's
Report card on Cisco's Q3 financial results.  More..

5 Ways to Build Your Virtual Office
When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. My burgeoning media empire consists of two people (my lovely wife and me), but to the outside world we seem a lot bigger, thanks to online applications. To get our tasks done, we lean heavily on Web-based apps, from office suites to calendars to collaboration tools that let us work with colleagues on the other coast. Better yet, many of the services we use are free--at least, in their most basic incarnations. That never hurts. More..

Wikinomics author Don Tapscott joins SaaS startup
Wikinomics author Don Tapscott will chair the consulting wing of a start-up software as a service (SaaS) company that he says offers a platform for Web 2.0 tools to help companies redesign their business model to encourage horizontal collaboration. More..

Clarizen going after Microsoft Project users
Clarizen, like other small vendors in the on-demand project-management software space, is trying to lure Microsoft Project customers. More..

Virtualization in Interop spotlight
With a focus on building virtualization into advanced data centers, the network industry will convene at its largest trade show this week in Las Vegas. More..

Collaborative security initiatives spark interest at RSA
SAN FRANCISCO— IT executives who flocked to the RSA Conference this week heard more evidence that enterprise networks are increasingly vulnerable, while cybercriminals are becoming better organized and more dangerous. An estimated 250,000 computers are compromised every day by botherders, according to Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The number of exploits is seven times higher than it was a year ago, and the cyberthreat is "growing exponentially,'' he said. More..

Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion dollar juggernaut to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow More..

Cisco improves WebEx Mac support
Cisco, which now owns the WebEx online collaboration software, announced Wednesday that it has expanded Mac support across the product line. More..

Intelligence community to start using virtual worlds
IBM announced Thursday that it would integrate a virtual worlds platform into Lotus Sametime, Big Blue's collaboration software, that will be used by the U.S. Intelligence agencies to communicate on key topics such as terrorism. More..

IBM: Lotus Expeditor inside Sprint Nextel's 'Titan' platform
IBM's Lotus Expeditor, which developers can use to create collaborative, desktop-style applications for client and mobile devices, is inside Sprint Nextel's Titan platform for most of its smartphones running Windows Mobile 6, IBM said Thursday. More..

Novell details modular infrastructure plan
Novell Monday laid out a technical strategy that would let users mix and match physical and virtual machines along with management tools, identity services, collaboration software, and open source operating systems. More..

IBM pledges $1 billion to unified communications
IBM has committed to investing $1 billion in its unified communications strategy in the next three years as it sharpens its sword to do battle with Microsoft in a fast-growing market. More..

Gates: Google not a threat to hosted services
Microsoft has opened up its hosted version of SharePoint and Exchange to medium-sized and small companies, as it tries to take advantage of the demand for software as a service. More..