Category: Tools & Technologies

G-Shock Watch with Phone Integration

Casio announced (but hasn’t yet released) a new watch that integrates with a phone via Bluetooth: “Your watch can vibrate when you get a call, text or e-mail and show the person’s name, even if your phone is in your purse or briefcase. The G-Shock can help you […]

Mobile Access to the Intranet – Survey

I’ve been a long term believer in mobile access to collaborative systems, and as the Intranet becomes a habitat for many people, mobile access is important. Sabel Online and Frankwatching in the Netherlands are currently running a survey on mobile access to the Intranet: “This research is about […]

Cloud Service for Health Care

Optum introduced a cloud service for health care, to increase the effectiveness of patient care: “The health care cloud environment from Optum simplifies the lives of caregivers, innovators and health IT managers – those whose work has the greatest impact on patient care and on the performance of […]

FileTrek for File Sharing and Tracking

FileTrek announced the release of its new file sharing and tracking service, to support collaboration between people while honoring security and compliance needs: “FileTrek announced today the only combined cloud-based file sharing and tracking solution on the market. FileTrek is designed to allow secure file sharing, project collaboration, […]

Virgin Media Using Cisco Quad

Virgin Media in the UK is deploying a suite of tools from Cisco to support company-wide collaboration: “Virgin Media, one of the UK’s entertainment and digital communications companies has taken a step to becoming a more social business. It is deploying Cisco collaboration tools to its 15,000 workers. […]

Gamification for Collaboration Potential

Tim from ISW in Australia writes about the role of gamification techniques to unlock hidden collaboration potential: ““If you can measure it you can improve it” is an old business adage that is easily applied to performance criteria such as manufacturing output levels or sales quotas. But, how […]

Avaya UC on the Apple iPad – Wider Device Support Coming

Avaya released an iPad client for its unified communications system: “Avaya, a global provider of business communications and collaboration systems and services, today announced the availability of Avaya Flare Communicator for iPad tablets. Avaya Flare Communicator broadens the next-generation user experience of the Avaya Flare Experience currently delivered […]