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Friday, 17th June 2011

Cloud Computing

Cloud Poll: What Does Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Departure Mean for Open Data and the Cloud?

Yesterday we reported that Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the U.S. federal government, will leave his post for a fellowship at Harvard. Kundra lead the Data.gov open data project which suffered a massive budget cut, and the White House's cloud computing initiatives. With the leader of two banner projects for both open data and cloud computing…

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Zerply: a Non-Corporate LinkedIn, Built For and By the Web Generation

Despite its recent IPO, there's a strong feeling among many people online that the professional network LinkedIn doesn't quite work for them. Despite its millions of users, it isn't necessarily easy to find people on LinkedIn that you'd want to work for you. And just as importantly, young people in particular feel as though you have to "put on…

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Windows XP Still Powers 60% of Corporate Desktops, Apple Makes Small Gains

According to a new report from Forrester, Windows 7 is now in use on 20% of corporate desktops as of March 2011. Windows XP still holds on to 59.9% of the enterprise desktop world (down from 67.5% a year go). Apple now has an 11% share of the corporate desktop (up from 9.1%). Linux has only 1.4% (it was 1.3% a year before this…

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SocialSpring's New Enterprise Microblogging Services

Intridea, the folks behind microblogging Presently.com, will roll out a series of new corporate social media services on Tuesday under the SocialSpring.com label. First off, Presently will be henceforth rebranded as Stream. Added to it will be two entirely new services called Answers and Links.

David Strom comments

Third-Party Plugin Brings Priority Inbox Style Organizing to Outlook

Last year we told you about a few plugins for Microsoft Outlook users with Gmail envy. Here's another one for that list: Priority Inbox for Outlook. This is a third party plugin not associated with either Microsoft or Google that can organize e-mail in a way similar to Priority Inbox feature in Gmail. It costs $19.90 and is available for…

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