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  • Brisbane Grammar School prepares for Lync

    Students at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland will be able to connect with classrooms in Australia and overseas in about six weeks’ time when the School rolls out Microsoft’s unified communications suite Lync.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 13 May 13 11:26

  • Is your social network built enterprise tough?

    You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model.

    Written by Sriram Chakravarthy, VP, products and engineering, social computing, TIBCO • 07 May 13 20:32

  • $US300m investment in Nook delivers next to nothing for Microsoft

    Microsoft has gotten little from a 2012 investment of $US300 million with Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it's poised to reap some rewards as it and its partners start to ship smaller tablets.

    Written by Gregg Keizer • 07 May 13 18:04

  • Skype extends coverage of Manager administration tool

    Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 07 May 13 10:45

  • How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

    Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 06 May 13 11:14

  • Facebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access

    Facebook Thursday said it’s making available globally a feature called "Trusted Contacts" that lets users select three to five friends who can help users recover account access such as if they forget their password.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 02 May 13 18:33

  • Optus Business restructure integrates Alphawest, NCS

    Optus has completed a business restructuring that integrates Optus Business with Alphawest and SingTel subsidiary NCS. The groups, which serve enterprise and government customers, previously operated separately.

    Written by Adam Bender • 02 May 13 13:12

  • Is Twitter broken?

    Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 01 May 13 20:57

  • EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

    Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

    Written by Tim Greene • 30 April 13 22:06

  • Enterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative

    Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went looking for a simpler way that wound up saving money by boosting efficiency.

    Written by Tim Greene • 30 April 13 18:02

  • Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com

    Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox.

    Written by Tim Greene • 30 April 13 14:08

  • Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com

    Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, allowing users to make calls and send instant messages from within the webmail service using a browser plugin.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 30 April 13 10:02

  • 25 must-have technologies for SMBs

    Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.

    Written by Jeff Vance • 29 April 13 11:19

  • Telecom NZ to expand cloud with Revera acquisition

    Telecom NZ has agreed to pay $96.5 million to acquire IT infrastructure and data centre company Revera Limited in a move meant to deepen the telco’s range of cloud services for business customers.

    Written by Adam Bender • 29 April 13 10:50

  • VirnetX targets Skype, Lync in new patent attack on Microsoft

    Patent holding company VirnetX this week filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing Microsoft's Skype of infringing six of its patents.

    Written by Gregg Keizer • 25 April 13 17:00

  • Report: Facebook and Twitter don’t change the American political status quo

    Social media has yet to show its supposed promise as a great leveler of American democracy, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, which found that sharp divisions in political participation among socioeconomic groups persist despite the presence of Facebook and Twitter.

    Written by Jon Gold • 25 April 13 06:08

  • Managed services drive Australian UC market: Frost & Sullivan

    Demand for managed services is helping the unified communications (UC) market in Australia grow as organisations strive to avoid service and maintenance overheads while controlling UC hardware and applications, according to Frost & Sullivan.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 23 April 13 14:54

  • Twitter, Pinterest, Skype founders advise Japan entrepreneurs

    A host of celebrity tech executives, including the founders of Twitter, Pinterest, Evernote and Android, converged in Tokyo this week, invited as part of an ambitious effort to modernize Japan's economy through entrepreneurship.

    Written by Jay Alabaster • 16 April 13 12:35

  • EMC teams with Avaya (not Cisco) on communication pods

    Two stalwarts in the enterprise IT market joined forces today to release a unified communications stack that integrates hardware from EMC, virtualization technology from VMware and communications apps from Avaya. Perhaps most interesting about the news, though, is a company that was not involved: Cisco.

    Written by Brandon Butler • 09 April 13 17:06

  • Will Android users feel welcome in Facebook's Home?

    Unless you're a huge Facebook fanatic, will this really be something you use every day? Time will tell.

    Written by Jon Gold • 05 April 13 16:08
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