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Gartner hosted the 4th annual Europe based “Gartner : Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit” (pcce4) in London this week. From statistics given the delegates had a good cross industry and European countries (and further afield) representation.
The summit host Toby Bell and his colleague Debra Logan welcomed us by providing a grounding for the event through [...]
Overview:
A major set of vendors were present in Manchester to promote their products and services. The focus was in small & medium business spectrum but there were elements that were relevant to the enterprise scale as well. The vendors represented were also across the spectrum of the IT and computer services industry – memory [...]
On Google:
Google gave a keynote on Cloud Computing, their stand was focussed on promoting their cloud based Enterprise computing suite – Google Apps. What came across in my discussions with their representative was the keenness to compete with Microsoft in the area of cloud based productivity services. They were also eager to emphasise their [...]
On Microsoft:
The Microsoft stand had demonstration available on Exchange 2010, BPOS (S), Dynamics, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and ForeFront their security and perimeter protection product.
Microsoft gave a keynote on Windows 7 (with a short preview of Office 2010), given by James Akrigg – head of technology for [...]
As an almost constant home worker, my work connections are 90%+ virtual. I rely heavily on a variety of collaboration tools to help me overcome the barriers to successful engagement, construction of trusted networks and getting the job done in a geographically dispersed team.
This clip from Phil Montero (via Michael’s news updates) rings true with [...]
As a follow on to my recent post, I’d thought I post my thoughts on what I’ve discovered about keeping these devices (small computers after all) in good working order.
Handy maintenance tips
This post from BBGeeks is a great start point:
8 ways to trim the fat from your Blackberry
Some of the less obvious or well [...]
Technorati Tags: Mobile,mid,smartphones,connectivity
Since I received a Blackberry (8310 Curve) a replacement to my standard corporate mobile handset. I’ve become an avid user and I consider it an almost indispensable tool for keeping in touch and connected to colleagues and other networks. I have only used a blackberry (this model), so am not in a position [...]
Technorati Tags: Lotus,Foundations,XPages,Portal,Connections
This Techjam for System Integrators had a packed agenda covering the latest and greatest news from the IBM Lotus Brand.
In the month of the LCTY events in the UK, this was a great primer for those events.
The agenda for the day was as follows:
Introduction and welcome message Jamie Goodhead – Business Unit [...]
Technorati Tags: Smartphone,sync,blackberry,Lotus notes
One of the great things about smart phones is that one way or another they can be tethered up to your laptop or PC to move, copy or sync data between your devices.
Obviously the most important parts to sync between the smart phone and your work device is going to be your [...]
Technorati Tags: Flock,Firefox,add-ons
Everyone has their favourites and I’m no different. Even though I don’t even use Firefox itself as the main browser, I use Flock -an enhanced social networking derivative of Firefox 3.0 ; that in itself isn’t to everyone’s taste.
Flock is compatible with the majority of the add-ons and I begun to enjoy and [...]
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