Posted by David Tebbutt on 23rd June 2008.
I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking giant. A company which was valued last week at just over a billion dollars. Perhaps Aladdin thought it would ride the giant’s coat tails.
Unfortunately, the method it chose was to accuse LinkedIn of making industrial espionage easier. “Ah,” thought I, [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 16th June 2008.
Last week’s Web 2.0 Strategies conference in London brought together people who were anxious to find out whether and how to implement ‘Web 2.0′ in their organisations. They came with a generally favourable disposition towards the subject but most of those I spoke to were finding it difficult to engender enthusiasm among their senior management. [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 11th June 2008.
Despite the hype around the launch of the iPhone 3G by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, there were also some serious nuggets aimed at the business community. So is a battle looming between Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry, and Apple for the hearts and minds of the small business user?
Although Blackberry’s [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 9th June 2008.
A visit with FaceTime introduced me to the term ‘greynet’. Since it’s been knocking around for donkey’s years, I should have known about it. But I didn’t. And so, I figured, nor would you. (Skip this blog if you’re up to speed on the subject and protected from greynet attacks.)
A greynet is a network-enabled application [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 27th May 2008.
Twitter has been mentioned a few times in SmallBizPod a few times during the past year. It’s a web service that allows you to post short messages about what you’re doing at any moment. These can be picked up on computers and mobile phones. In itself, Tweeting sounds totally insane. As I’ve said before, “Who [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 18th May 2008.
Over the past few months, I’ve seen quite a number of videoconferencing systems, ranging from the desktop to huge room-sized affairs. The room-sized are probably beyond the remit of this blog. And I’ve written about some of the desktop ones before. I’m hoping to write about a new one very soon which, frankly, blows the [...]
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