Back in 1992, NCR in New Zealand ran a nationwide essay contest for undergraduate students at any University or polytechnic (technical institute). I entered and won. Anyhoo, the CEO of NCR at that time was Jim Butts, and we’ve kept in touch over the years. He and Peg, […]
In an act of tremendous kindness, the Macless one and his family took me to Disneyland in the few hours we had after I arrived in California and before our 10.25pm flight to Boston. We had a fun-packed and quick-paced 3 hours at Disneyland, and managed to squeeze […]
It’s Saturday June 16, 7.20pm here in New Zealand, and I’m 24,000 ft above ground on my way from my home in Christchurch to Auckland, and then through to Los Angeles (where I meet the Macless one), and then on to Boston for Enterprise 2.0: The Collaborative Technologies […]
Team Collaboration Open-Xchange Server 5 Update … Open-Xchange announced 50 new/updated features for Version 5 of its Linux-oriented Open-Xchange Server for messaging and collaboration, delivered in Service Pack 3. Upgrades include better mobile device synchronization, enhanced usability for Microsoft Outlook, and extended search capabilities, among others. Available immediately. […]
Team Collaboration Networker 4.0 … Presence Networks released Version 4.0 of Networker, a secure transport managed gateway for real-time instant messaging. “Networker now enables the secure communications with public IM solutions such as MSN, ICQ and Yahoo. With other Corporate IM solutions, the method of communicating between public […]
From our local newspaper today … Mark, a loving husband, was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary and his wife was really ticked off with him. She told him, “tomorrow morning I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in […]
Team Collaboration Exchange 2007 Migration Concerns … Osterman Research surveyed a number of organizations on their needs from email and messaging, for PostPath, which offers a product to compete with Microsoft Exchange. Key findings: 70% of enterprises are concerned / extremely concerned about the complexity of the Exchange […]
Ian Randall was kind enough to lay out some additional thoughts on my recent post Business Reasons for Migrating from Notes/Domino to SharePoint. As I did with Mike’s comment, here’s my response. Please note the two points of background I laid out on my response to Mike. Ian’s […]
Team Collaboration Pivot 360° … Pivot Solutions announced Pivot 360°, a collaboration offering for financial services professionals for inter-enterprise communication and collaboration. It’s an upgrade to IMTRADER, Pivot’s instant messaging and chat solution. “Pivot 360° complements Pivot’s IMTRADER by managing all the information 360 degrees around a conversation […]
Apple’s next version of the Mac operating system, Leopard, due out in October, and is going to have a Spaces construct for dividing work into quickly referenceable projects. Create a Space for work. Create a Space for play. Organize each Space the way you want it just by […]
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