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Salesforce.com plans social networking for business

Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of 2010, allows users to ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Marc Benioff,  Google Inc.

How CIOs can achieve post-recession success

Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, the economics research arm of analyst house McKinsey & Company. In an exclusive interview, silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson spoke to Chui about the report he co-authored on how CIOs ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  18 Nov 2009

Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets

Photos of the month - October 2009 October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone else with a Skype account for free. J2ME ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype

Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation

Update: It's becoming a reality Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated landscape shooting aliens? Okay, enough with the virtual reality of yesteryear. We're talking about virtualisation in terms of the creation ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tesco P.L.C.,  Microsoft Corporation,  IBM

Keeping IT green in tough times

The steps organisations are taking to be green and keep their IT infrastructure efficient - and their costs low It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes to electricity-hungry IT infrastructure. And in the midst of a recession, with ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Forrester Research, Inc.

Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens

The X Series mini-laptop, shown here, is one of the lightest in the world, according to Sony. There are three versions, with the lightest weighing in at 655g. It's 13.9mm thick, has an 11.1-inch screen and will be available in gold, black and carbon ...

From TIM FERGUSON AND SOPHIE CURTIS, Silicon.com,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sony

Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users

Rentokil is the biggest enterprise deployment of Google Apps to date (Photo credit: Rentokil Initial) Business support services company Rentokil Initial has signed up for the biggest enterprise deployment of Google Apps to ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Rentokil Initial,  Microsoft Corporation

How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out

Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so they know when cutting-edge technology is ready for widespread adoption - and also to keep the CIO from being ambushed by other execs. Research company Forrester said enterprise architects ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Forrester Research, Inc.

A cell phone and some bad manners

SAN FRANCISCO—As incidents go, it was almost comical. And Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker hardly needed any help anyway. But on a day when almost everything seemed to go bad for Ryo Ishikawa and Geoff Ogilvy, a ringing cell phone and a fan who couldn't ...

From TIM DAHLBERG AND DOUG FERGUSON, Boston Globe,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tiger Woods,  Steve Stricker,  Phil Mickelson,  Michael Jordan,  Fred Couples

Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer

Take your pick from a collection of early computers and calculators being auctioned at Bonhams This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated in 1958. Just 13 of the Leo II devices ...

From TIM FERGUSON, Silicon.com,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Michael Bennett

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