Microsoft announced today it has settled its patent dispute with Salesforce.com. The press release says "Although the contents of the agreement have not been disclosed, Microsoft indicated that it is being compensated by Salesforce.com based on the strength of Microsoft's leading patent portfolio in the areas of operating systems, cloud...
If you use Gmail for business and haven't tried out browser plug-in Rapportive, your work life online is not yet complete. The small company behind the must-have software said this weekend that it has raised $1 million from a group of All Star, but unnamed, angel investors. This morning serial...
Readers were in the mood for maps this week because they pushed this story about a must-see video of Microsoft's Street Slide into the most-viewed category. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Internet of Things sensors are chicken; golfers get a hands-on augmented reality...
The social enterprise space continues to gain acceptance. After years of promise, the market seems to be truly hitting its stride. This is best represented by the continued funding of social enterprise services such as Gist, which today announced it raised another $4 million.A catalyst for this new energy has...
SAP employee Timo Elliott has unveiled a prototype for an augmented reality business intelligence iPhone app. He emphasizes that it's a prototype, not a supported product. It's not available for download yet, but Elliott gives us a look at what an augmented enterprise could look like.Elliot released some proof-of-concept mock-ups...
Last week we wrote about Google's long term strategy to win over enterprise customers. But MarketWatch reported Friday on a short-term setback for Google enterprise ambitions: the company missed the deadline to deploy Google Apps to Los Angeles municipal employees. The delay revolves around security, that ever-present cloud computing concern....
A white paper released today by malware monitoring company Dasient identifies third party elements beyond the control of company webmasters as the biggest security holes in most enterprise web sites. Specifically, Dasient identifies third party JavaScript widgets, advertising and web applications as the biggest liabilities.Malware certainly isn't new to the...
Richard MacManus' story on how the Internet is running out of addresses was our top post this week. (Isn't Al Gore responsible for making more?) We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: There are at least 100 things you can do with RFID on the...
Silentale, the searchable archive of all your email and Web-based communication, is now available as a mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Like the desktop version of the service, the new app provides a "360 degree view of your contacts," explains the company, including conversation history with email...
FreshBooks announced today that its popular online invoicing platform will integrate with SalesForce's cloud-based CRM portal, allowing companies to manage their billing and CRM from one interface.Starting today, SalesForce customers can purchase a DataSynch plug-in from PERVASIVE DataSolutions to link their SalesForce customers with client data in FreshBooks. Once this...
Frank Eliason, the man behind the ballyhooed Twitter account @comcastcares, announced his resignation from giant cable and internet provider Comcast this afternoon. Companies interested in social media, and that's just about all companies these days, have watched @comcastcares very closely.Eliason was named Senior Director in National Customer Operations at Comcast...
The new version of Microsoft's Outlook Social Connector, adding Facebook and Windows Live support to the existing LinkedIn and Myspace support, is available for download. Specific connectors are available here. Social Connector adds information such as recent conversations and shared appointments from within Outlook, plus profile and status update information...
Help desk SaaS provider Zendesk announced new Twitter integration features today, including the ability to create new Zendesk tickets directly from Twitter, record Twitter conversation as part of a ticket, and share relevant Twitter conversations with colleagues across internal platforms. Zendesk users will also be able find mentions of a...
From time to time, it makes sense to step back and take a look at real stories about businesses that have transformed aspects of its IT infrastructure. It's a rare feat as changing your mindset is the only way to fundamental change.That usually only happens when the failure is so...
Today's roundtable overlapped with the Italy - Slovakia World Cup soccer game, which from what I can tell was quite exciting, albeit very disappointing for the reigning champions!Michael Jastram started off by presenting ProR, an open-source platform to manage the RFQ process for automotive parts manufacturers and suppliers. Michael has...
It all sounds good when Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff is on stage like he was today, stirring the faithful with his rousing presence. If you ever get the chance, go see Benioff present. He has a style that's part P.T. Barnum, part passionate geek.With Chatter, Salesforce.com is embracing the concept...
Salesforce.com is launching Chatter to its entire customer base today. The adoption means that Chatter will now be part of the entire Salesforce.com stack, available as a stand alone application and as a platform for application development.Chatter is now integrated into the entire Salesforce.com product line, including its sales and...
Zoho Invoice and Zoho Creator Helpdesk joined Zoho CRM & Zoho Projects in the Google Apps Marketplace today. All the apps come in both free and paid varieties, and integrate Google Apps' users, contacts and other features into Zoho's offerings.The company was one of the original Google Apps Marketplace launch...
For the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week we will take a look specifically how the enterprise is adopting enterprise technologies. What services are companies using and why?Dachis Group is one of the fastest growing consulting organizations in the Enterprise 2.0 space. In the past several months they've made a series...
Morgan Stanley recently released a report detailing a survey it did of 50 chief information officers. We got our hands on the report and found it interesting from a market perspective.We do not ordinarily follow what the investment banks say about the cloud computing and virtualization markets. But the viewpoints...
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