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Can social web applications like blogs, wikis, and online communities make a company more productive? Enterprise collaboration company Jive Software thinks they can, by enabling social productivity — making things happen across ad hoc social networks instead of just relying on individual progress or within-the-workgroup collaboration.
But because social productivity, in contrast to individual or [...]

This will be good news or bad news depending on how you feel about Microsoft, but the software company seems to be roaring back. And it has nothing to do with its overpriced, over-hyped 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.
Instead, it has more to do with the earnings report it delivered Thursday afternoon for its [...]

Ok, so you’ve got an idea, you’ve got a limited budget and you want to start your own company. To keep control of costs you’ve decided to off-shore the development. Now what do you do? How do you go from idea to launched system? In this post I’ll detail your first steps towards launch. By […]

Hot on the heels of Facebook’s deal with Microsoft (MSFT), which values the social networking startup at a jaw-dropping $15 billion, developers and others will gather in San Francisco tomorrow for the SNAP Summit.

The one-day event will, according to its organizers, focus “in-depth on the Facebook platform and beyond.” Speakers include everyone from Flixster […]

Recently, a brouhaha has broken out over Comcast (CMCSA), the second-largest U.S. broadband provider, and its policies regarding the management of peer-to-peer traffic. The company contests that it doesn’t block traffic to P2P services, web sites and other applications, but rather that it tries to “manage” traffic in times of congestion on various parts […]

Ethernet’s growing importance as part of the carrier networks, especially in newer telecom economies such as India and China, is one of the main reasons why Nokia Siemens Networks is acquiring privately held Atrica, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based equipment maker. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Atrica counts Orange Business Services, KVH […]