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How Cisco will use newly acquired Tropo to accelerate the cPaaS market

With Cisco's annual Collaboration Summit just ahead, here's a look at the unique position Cisco finds itself in with the newly acquired Tropo.

By Zeus Kerravala

Dec 2, 2015 4 mins

Cisco Systems Unified Communications

Mozilla identifying home for Thunderbird as it focuses on Firefox

The decision follows the foundation's move in 2012 not to focus development resources on Thunderbird

By John Ribeiro

Dec 1, 2015 3 mins

Email Clients Open Source

CIO describes how he moved 125K workers to Office 365 in 6 months

The CIO of Swiss power company ABB shared details with CIO.com about its decision to ditch IBM Notes and move 125,000 workers to Office 365. The migration spotlighted important lessons for IT leaders about the scalability of enterprise tools and how

By Matt Kapko

Nov 25, 2015 5 mins

Collaboration Software Microsoft 365 Small and Medium Business

Infosec jobs: Use keywords to boost your LinkedIn ranking

Hiring experts share the keywords you must use to rise to the top of LinkedIn searches for security professionals.

By Kristin Burnham

Nov 24, 2015 5 mins

Careers LinkedIn Social Networking Apps

Microsoft CEO takes a collaborative approach to cybersecurity

Microsoft CEO Nadella talks of company's role in an ‘ecosystem,’ saying partnerships and top-to-bottom protection and detection critical to battle emerging security threats.

By Kenneth Corbin

Nov 23, 2015 4 mins

Collaboration Software Cybercrime Small and Medium Business

Cisco acquires video collaboration company for $700M

Acano will help scale, hybrid delivery and interoperability, company says

By Jim Duffy

Nov 20, 2015 2 mins

Cisco Systems Microsoft Unified Communications

Citrix spinning off GoTo collaboration business, laying off 1,000 people

The company will focus on the secure delivery of apps and data

By John Ribeiro

Nov 18, 2015 2 mins

Citrix Systems Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

5 email helpers you need to install right now

Email overload is a fact of daily business life. Or is it? While plenty of applications promise to help you manage the morass of messages munging up your mailbox, these five may actually deliver on those promises.

By John Brandon

Nov 18, 2015 6 mins

Email Clients