http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:46 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T19:21:46Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/polycom-partners-with-bt-on-videoconferencing/?cs=37664 Polycom and BT Group announced a three-year partnership that the companies say will accelerate the growth of unified conferencing systems within enterprises. The announcement comes on the heels of Cisco's increased bid for Tandberg and Logitech's business_technology web_video_and_voice_conferencing mergers_and_acquisitions polycom technology_markets business_development bt_group Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:46 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/polycom-partners-with-bt-on-videoconferencing/?cs=37664 2009-11-20T19:21:46Z 14 hours, 46 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/polycom-partners-with-bt-on-videoconferencing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37664 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/chrome-os-101/?cs=37655 Yesterday, Google unveiled an early version of it Chrome OS along with providing an outline on the Chrome OS project. Lance Ulanoff, writing for PC Magazine , provides a list of 11 things you need to know about Google's Chrome OS . First on his google web_applications business_technology operating_systems chrome_os Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:49 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/chrome-os-101/?cs=37655 2009-11-20T16:18:49Z 17 hours, 49 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/chrome-os-101 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37655 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/air-canada-tries-out-in-flight-wi-fi/?cs=37651 Slowly and steadily, in-flight Wi-Fi is coming to the friendly skies. Air Canada announced it has begun experimenting with a new system on some flights from Montreal and Toronto to Los Angeles, CityNews reports. The trial period is scheduled to run business_technology air_canada gogo business_development aircell wi-fi Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:59 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/air-canada-tries-out-in-flight-wi-fi/?cs=37651 2009-11-20T15:57:59Z 18 hours, 10 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/air-canada-tries-out-in-flight-wi-fi http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37651 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-releases-surface-sdk/?cs=37641 Microsoft officially released its Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition at its Professional Developers Conference 2009. The SDK is available for free for anyone who wants to develop on the device, however, a Microsoft Surface is software_and_web_development surface tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs business_technology sdk microsoft Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:43 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-releases-surface-sdk/?cs=37641 2009-11-20T14:02:43Z 20 hours, 5 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/microsoft-releases-surface-sdk http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37641 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/hp-extends-data-protection-to-laptops/?cs=37640 HP has released a new tool designed to simplify the backup and recovery of data from laptops. HP Data Protector Notebook Extension , designed to work in conjunction with HP's Data Protector server, allows businesses to back up and recover data outside hp laptops continuous_data_protection backup data_protector_notebook_extension business_technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:25 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/hp-extends-data-protection-to-laptops/?cs=37640 2009-11-20T13:46:25Z 20 hours, 21 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/hp-extends-data-protection-to-laptops http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37640 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-unveils-early-version-of-chrome-os/?cs=37624 Google has unveiled an early version of its Chrome OS at a press event at its headquarters today. Sundar Pichai, Google vice president of product management, says that while the company is about a year away from releasing its Chrome OS, the code for it google tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs web_applications business_technology operating_systems chrome_os open_source_software_development network_security Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:55:06 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-unveils-early-version-of-chrome-os/?cs=37624 2009-11-19T18:55:06Z 1 day, 15 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/google-unveils-early-version-of-chrome-os http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37624 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/broadband-access-made-a-legal-right-in-spain/?cs=37617 Last month, Finland declared broadband access a right to all citizens by July 2010. Spain is following suit by mandating some of its telecommunications companies make high-speed Internet service affordable in most of the country, especially rural europe finland business_technology broadband_services spain telecommunications_vendors Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:30 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/broadband-access-made-a-legal-right-in-spain/?cs=37617 2009-11-19T16:50:30Z 1 day, 17 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/broadband-access-made-a-legal-right-in-spain http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37617 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/toshiba-aiming-for-enterprise-with-35-inch-drives/?cs=37612 At a press event in London yesterday, Toshiba announced its plans to enter the high-capacity enterprise 3.5-inch hard-disk drive market . The development comes on the heels of the completion of Toshiba's acquisition of Fujitsu's HDD business, Channel toshiba fujitsu business_technology hard_drives mergers_and_acquisitions solid-state_drives Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:31 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/toshiba-aiming-for-enterprise-with-35-inch-drives/?cs=37612 2009-11-19T16:07:31Z 1 day, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/toshiba-aiming-for-enterprise-with-35-inch-drives http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37612 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-office-2010-will-be-linkedin/?cs=37609 In conjunction with the public beta release of Office 2010 , LinkedIn announced a partnership with Microsoft in which LinkedIn contact information can be integrated with contacts in Outlook.   When Outlook users receive an e-mail from one of their business_technology e-mail_and_e-mail_management microsoft microsoft_office data_synchronization office_2010 linkedin social_networks business_development Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:08 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-office-2010-will-be-linkedin/?cs=37609 2009-11-19T15:32:08Z 1 day, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/microsoft-office-2010-will-be-linkedin http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37609 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-offers-public-beta-of-office-2010/?cs=37608 At its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that it has put Office 2010 into a public beta . The beta is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and each includes tweaked versions of the Office applications, says Techtree.com . microsoft_office software_testing office_web_apps business_technology microsoft office_2010 web_applications Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:16:49 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-offers-public-beta-of-office-2010/?cs=37608 2009-11-19T15:16:49Z 1 day, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/microsoft-offers-public-beta-of-office-2010 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37608 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-readies-windows-azure-for-the-market/?cs=37587 At the annual PDC conference yesterday, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie announced that the company's Windows Azure cloud computing platform will transition from preview to full production on January 1 and have its first paying customers windows_azure ray_ozzie business_technology cloud_computing microsoft executive_suite Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:51 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/microsoft-readies-windows-azure-for-the-market/?cs=37587 2009-11-18T18:26:51Z 2 days, 15 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/microsoft-readies-windows-azure-for-the-market http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37587 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/apparent-networks-launches-cloud-performance-center/?cs=37586 Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site discusses a free service from Apparent Networks that sets out to allay fears businesses have regarding the network performance of the wide area networks that link them to their cloud computing providers. apparent_networks business_technology decision_support_systems network_performance_management cloud_performance_center cloud_computing performance_management internet_service_providers wan Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:51:06 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/apparent-networks-launches-cloud-performance-center/?cs=37586 2009-11-18T17:51:06Z 2 days, 16 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/apparent-networks-launches-cloud-performance-center http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37586 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-to-dish-on-chrome-os-tomorrow/?cs=37584 Google plans to unveil more details about its Chrome OS tomorrow, says ChannelWeb . The company is expected to deliver information on its progress thus far and when its operating system will officially become available. Google first announced its business_technology chrome_os google operating_systems client_hardware_vendors Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:48 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/google-to-dish-on-chrome-os-tomorrow/?cs=37584 2009-11-18T17:19:48Z 2 days, 16 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/google-to-dish-on-chrome-os-tomorrow http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37584 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/xangati-gives-service-providers-more-visibility/?cs=37580 Unfortunately for ISPs, its difficult for them to get a good idea of who is consuming what type of content on their networks. Xangati hopes to help with this problem.   Our CTO Edge site reports that Xangati is releasing a version of its business_technology application_performance_management bandwidth_management xangati network_performance_management internet_service_providers Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:57:50 GMT kara.reeder@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/xangati-gives-service-providers-more-visibility/?cs=37580 2009-11-18T15:57:50Z 2 days, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/xangati-gives-service-providers-more-visibility http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37580 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/kontiki-videocenter-looks-to-become-youtube-for-the-enterprise/?cs=37559 Kontiki is looking to position itself as the YouTube of the enterprise with its latest offering. The Kontiki VideoCenter is an enterprise video portal that enables users to manage videos, comment on their content, as well as rank videos and control business_technology cloud_computing kontiki kontiki_videocenter enterprise_content_management rich_media Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:04 GMT ainsley.jones@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/kontiki-videocenter-looks-to-become-youtube-for-the-enterprise/?cs=37559 2009-11-17T18:47:04Z 3 days, 15 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/comment/kontiki-videocenter-looks-to-become-youtube-for-the-enterprise http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/inf/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37559