Apparently caught off guard by strong demand for Xim, a mobile photo-sharing app from its Fuse Labs researchers, a regretful Microsoft has released it globally for Android and Windows Phone, while promising iOS support is due soon.
Google's YouTube division has bought the Directr movie-making app for smartphones and will offer it free.
The consumerization of IT is old news at this point, since workers have been bringing their iPhones and Android-based devices to work for years now.
While there were a lot of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/091511-demo-cloud-computing-250926.html?fsrc=netflash-rss">impressive technologies</a> at this year's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/091311-demo.html">DEMO convention</a>, WeVideo looks like it has the most potential to be the Next Big Thing.
Google has released the source code for a technology that it hopes developers will use to embed real-time video and voice chat functionality in their Web applications.
With the right collaboration tools and an open-minded management team, the phrase 'productive meeting' doesn't have to be an oxymoron.