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  About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, e-mail, applications, software, Google, Microsoft

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  Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

  By Michael Cooney | 24 May, 2012 13:33

  Tags: web 2.0, unified communications, software, social media, networking, Internet-based applications and services, internet, IBM, collaboration, ceo, applications

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  Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  Tags: Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, collaboration, applications, software, Box.net

• Managing Mobile Mania

  In the space of just a few years, Art Johnston has gone from thinking of unified communications as optional to viewing it as "a strategy that we need to implement to be competitive."

  By Mary K. Pratt | 22 May, 2012 00:22

  Tags: software, smartphones, Mobile and Wireless, freemium, Enterprise Web 2.0/Collaboration, consumer electronics, collaboration, Argo Turboserve, applications

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  Final count down to Facebook's IPO begins

  After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 23:43

  Tags: Web 2.0 and Web Apps, software, IT industry, internet, Facebook, Enterprise Web 2.0/Collaboration, e-commerce, e-business, collaboration, applications

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  If Facebook's IPO goes south, social, tech markets could take a hit

  With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 04:38

  Tags: Web 2.0 and Web Apps, software, IT industry, internet, hitwise, Facebook, Experian, Enterprise Web 2.0/Collaboration, e-commerce, e-business, collaboration, applications

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  About 600,000 L.A. Community College students to get Microsoft Live@EDU

  The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's Live@EDU cloud suite, a project for which it also considered Google Apps for Education.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 15 May, 2012 10:48

  Tags: Software as a service, software, Microsoft, internet, Google, e-mail, collaboration, cloud computing, applications

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  10 questions for LogMeIn CFO Jim Kelliher

  Name: Jim Kelliher

  By Nancy Weil | 15 May, 2012 01:04

  Tags: system management, software, LogMeIn, Jim Kelliher, collaboration, CFO Careers, Business Management, applications

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  American moms love Facebook, Nielsen survey shows

  If you're looking for a last-minute gift for Mother's Day, don't bother sending her a Facebook invite - chances are, she's probably already on it.

  By Brad Reed | 12 May, 2012 03:33

  Tags: Wordpress, web 2.0, unified communications, Tumblr, software, social networking, social media, Pinterest, nielsen, networking, mothers day, mom, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google+, Google, Facebook, collaboration, applications

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  Bing will tap Facebook, Twitter in answering queries

  Microsoft is introducing a phone-a-friend feature into its Bing search engine, allowing searchers to ask their Facebook and Twitter contacts to supplement information gathered by the search engine itself.

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 07:26

  Tags: web 2.0, unified communications, twitter, software, social media, search engine, networking, Microsoft, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, collaboration, bing, applications

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  Facebook kicks off IPO roadshow in NYC

  Facebook on Monday launched its IPO roadshow in New York City with CEO Mark Zuckerberg turning out to pitch the company's upcoming stock to potential investors.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 May, 2012 05:39

  Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0 and Web Apps, software, networking, IT industry, internet, Instagram, Facebook, Enterprise Web 2.0/Collaboration, collaboration, applications

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  Thwarting employers asking for Facebook access

  If your employer or a potential employer asked you to hand over the keys to your house so they could search your possessions looking for something unspecified, I suspect you would be a little surprised and not a little outraged. Well, over the last few months there has been a significant number of reports of employers and colleges doing the digital equivalent of asking for your house keys by requesting Facebook passwords from employees, applicants and students.

  By Mark Gibbs | 07 May, 2012 14:39

  Tags: web 2.0, unified communications, software, Social Networking Online Protection Act, social media, SNOPA, security, Representative Eliot Engel, networking, Maryland, Justin Basset, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, Engel, Department of Corrections, collaboration, applications

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  Gartner says half of enterprises are wasting money on social media

  Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's about linking the social strategy to measurable business objectives, according to Gartner, which says most businesses aren't doing this.

  By Brandon Butler | 05 May, 2012 00:30

  Tags: web 2.0, unified communications, software, social media plan, social media, social CRM, networking, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Gartner, Facebook, collaboration, applications

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  VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration

  VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.

  By Brandon Butler | 04 May, 2012 07:42

  Tags: Yammer, web 2.0, VMware, unified communications, software, social media, social collaboration tools, Socialcast, networking, Lithium Network Conference, Lithium, Jive Software, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Gartner, Facebook, collaboration, applications

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  At Interior Department, Google Apps will co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for now

  Although the U.S. Interior Department plans to replace its on-premise email servers with Google Apps' cloud-based Gmail, the agency will retain Microsoft Outlook and Office as its standard e-mail client and desktop office productivity software for end users.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 04 May, 2012 03:30

  Tags: Software as a service, software, Microsoft, internet, Google, e-mail, collaboration, cloud computing, applications