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Enterprise 2.0 Conference The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is back with insight into the latest trends, and best practices for leveraging new social tools and technologies. Conference leaders will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by social networking, collaboration platforms, mobility, unified communications, search, video conferencing, and other technologies critical to the enterprise. Follow all the news from Boston and let top minds show you how to make your business more agile, connected, and responsive. What Is Enterprise 2.0? The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers. Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility. |
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The Latest News Workers at the company now routinely post articles to a wiki called Pfizerpedia that's grown to feature more than 10,000 articles and numerous how-to videos. The forthcoming apps from Oracle mirror the look and feel of Web 2.0 social networking services -- including MySpace and Facebook. To connect its 100,000-plus employees, the financial services company is rolling out a slew of new collaboration tools anchored by Microsoft's Sharepoint Server. Fedex business customers want the convenience of accessing online tools and services without having to exit their applications and launch a new browser window. The government's private wiki is a solution to the age-old problem of getting important information into the hands of intelligence agency people who can put it to good use. Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage. The software services, to be previewed at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, are Oracle's first significant plunge into subscription-based SaaS. To improve information sharing among intelligence agencies, the CIA turned to technologies emanating from Web 2.0, such as blogs, Wikipedia -- and Facebook. Ahead of his talk at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Sony's Ned Lerner explains the advantages of having his teams use wikis and other open source enterprise collaboration applications to get the job done. Get ready for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston June 9 - 12. where attendees will get an up-close look at how SaaS and Cloud Computing, Search 2.0, and social networking in the enterprise are reinventing the way companies do business. Gmail Labs offers a selection of experimental Gmail features for users to evaluate. Check out Email Addict. A Google engineer's blog post offers tips on protecting personal online records and information with strong passwords. The semiconductor and display industries will see significant changes as more people rely on wireless devices to connect with friends, according to iSuppli. The heterogeneous SOA software for Visual Studio will have tools called Architecture Explorer and Architecture Layer Diagram for visualizing application logic in current code. The photos surfaced after a security researcher discovered that a MySpace widget in Yahoo's Widget Galley could be used to bypass MySpace privacy controls. The rebranding of Google Custom Search Business Edition now offers enhanced index coverage including documents on public sites that otherwise wouldn't be indexed. Get ready for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston June 9 - 12. where attendees will get an up-close look at how SaaS and Cloud Computing, Search 2.0, and social networking in the enterprise are reinventing the way companies do business. Adobe unveiled Acrobat 9, Acrobat Reader 9, a new suite of services called Acrobat.com, and extensions to PDF that support interactive Flash content. Among other things, IE8 promises default compatibility with Web standards such as CCS 2.1 and HTML 5. Google says it wants to open up the core of Google Earth to developers so they can create the next great 3-D geo application. The company has been beefing up its digital media offerings in order to better compete with rivals such as Apple and its iTunes music download service. Its new era of software development includes Google Gears, Android, Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenSocial API, the company revealed at its I/O conference. acebook's decision to open its platform comes less than two weeks after the social network began denying Google's Friend Connect. A preview version of Microsoft's Social Bookmarks, to be introduced next month, will allow users to bookmark, tag, and share any URL on the Web. The state report also advocates the creation of a cross-government Electronic Records Committee to address long-term concerns. auctionPAL will let site visitors donate unused goods, which it will sell and donate the proceeds to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China. AT&T customers said they tend to text more frequently during Fox's "American Idol" season than other times of year, and some first learned to text message by voting for the show's contestants. A Google executive told an investor conference that there are many revenue opportunities for the company, particularly through refinements in search relevance, user experience, and ad quality. Executives from across Europe's technology, media and telecoms sector fear Internet search and advertising giant Google may steal their business, they told a Reuters summit this week. Four new tabs will be located at the top of user profile pages and the new layout is expected to cut down on the need to scroll down to view the pages. European trustbusters want to see if Microsoft's vow to support the OpenDocument Format in its Office products will loosen the software maker's stranglehold on the desktop applications market. Salesforce.com reported net income of $9.56 million on revenues of $247.6 million in the first quarter and said it signed 2,600 companies and organizations as new customers. Despite its recent ISO approval, however, Microsoft will not support the standardized version of its own Open XML format until the release of Office 14. The social networking site launched a new feature this week that helps members raise money for victims of natural disasters. Microsoft plans to entice advertisers and users of its search engine with savings on online purchases on a site called Live Search cashback. IBM's survey predicts nearly 1 billion mobile users will access the wireless Internet by 2011, representing $80 billion in Web services revenue. The pilot project with the Cleveland Clinic lets hundreds of patients add and access information about their medical histories and conditions. Together, Microsoft and Yahoo would control about 31% of the search market, compared with Google's 60%, according to comScore. By 2011, the Defense Department expects to have its integrated, interoperable electronic medical record system at more than 500 military medical facilities and hospitals worldwide. Asked specifically about the prospect of a sale to Microsoft, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to comment. Many projects are abandoned because of a lack of clear objectives and a limited understanding of the demographics, attitudes, and expectations. Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements. The social network has been developing a universal address book for Comcast's SmartZone communications center, which should launch later this year. The addition of visitor age and gender information to YouTube Insight is part of Google's overall mission to make the video sharing site profitable. The feature makes it possible for someone to log in to Zoho using Google or Yahoo credentials in order to view and collaborate on documents created by a Zoho user. The mandate is expected to be phased in for additional publicly held companies once XBRL has become a standard way of making SEC reports. CDW's survey found companies that employ 50 to 100 people face a critical development phase, or a management inflection point. The application developers say the mobile VoIP service enables users to communicate with each other around the world, often free of charge. The newsreader offers many of the same features as Google's desktop version, but optimized for smaller mobile phone screens. CDW's survey found companies that employ 50 to 100 people face a critical development phase, or a management inflection point. The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point in the interest and use of on-demand software among large companies. People in this category also use at least nine applications, such as instant messaging, text messaging, Web conferencing, and social networks, analysts found. The application developers say the mobile VoIP service enables users to communicate with each other around the world, often free of charge. The newsreader offers many of the same features as Google's desktop version, but optimized for smaller mobile phone screens. Powerset aims to prove that its natural language-based search makes it easier to find things on Wikipedia and Freebase, an open community database. Much of the information on Nokia's mapping service is from mapmaker Navteq, which Nokia announced in October it planned to acquire for $8.1 billion. The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace. However, movies made with the application may be out of sync with the picture when YouTube encodes the video. Microsoft's retailer survey also found more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were for its Xbox 360 videogame console. With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos. Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter have joined the site's "data-availability initiative" using OAuth integration technology. Facebook is working with state officials to protect young users of its social networking service. Blogs and Commentary |
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