The ROI of influenceOpen in New Window
James Brogan answers the question from James E. Gaskin of Network World "How does one become a leading social media expert? " read more »
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Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 features listOpen in New Window
Mozilla is using a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3 .1 schedule to build a private browsing mode. Privacy tools limit have been called "porn mode." They entirely eliminate what read more »
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Nokia opens research office in AfricaOpen in New Window
Nokia launched a regional research center in Nairobi on Sept. 30 to gain a better understanding of the needs of African consumers, said Dorothy Ooko, communications manager for East and Central Africa, in an interview Wednesday. read more »
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House struggles to deal with bailout-related e-mail delugeOpen in New Window
The IT staff at the U.S. House of Representatives is taking emergency steps in an effort to handle a fourfold increase in the amount of e-mail that has come in via the House's Web site since Sunday, when the text of the proposed Wall Street bailout bill was posted online. read more »
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Cisco, Microsoft roll out server, networking applianceOpen in New Window
EEnterprises can now buy a networking appliance from Cisco Systems that runs basic Windows Server 2008 functions, a product designed for use in branch offices, Cisco and Microsoft announced Wednesday.The companies said in February that they were working on a way for enterprises to run Windows Server 2008 services locally at a branch office on Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) networking appliance. The alternative for many companies is either to use a full Windows Server at every branch, which could be overkill, or run all functionality centrally, which could result in slow performance for branch workers. read more »
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HP to buy LeftHand Networks for storage virtualization, iSCSIOpen in New Window
"Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for $360 million to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for medium-size companies and remote offices and branches." read more »
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AMD to split into two companiesOpen in New Window
Martyn Williams writes "Advanced Micro Devices plans to split into two companies, one to design chips and one to make them, while two investment funds owned by the government of Abu Dhabi will contr read more »
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Pramati developing enterprise collaboration widgetsOpen in New Window
Pramati Technologies is releasing new software widgets in January. Pramati will be making its social and collaboration widgets "pluggable" and available from within business applications. read more »
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