At its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle announced an upcoming version of its Siebel CRM On Demand service that will include social networking features reminiscent of consumer portals such as Facebook or MySpace.
While social networking sites may primarily be the domain of students and recreational users, enterprises can be expected to climb aboard as well, attendees said at the recent Nokia Mobile Mashup 2007 event in California.
As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.
Local company iYomu aims to take on social networking giants Facebook and MySpace with its new social networking site for grown-ups. The company has its eyes set on the global market.
BEA Systems has released a trio of products in a suite geared for Web 2.0.
With the increasing use of Web 2.0 systems such as blogs, wikis and online social networks, pressure on corporate ICT and top management to allow similar tools and environments within the office will increase, says Sean Boiling, who manages BEA’s systems engineers in Australia and New Zealand.
Fatdoor.com, a website that mirrors the real world to let users to connect with their neighbours, launched this week with a new spin on social networking.
IBM is putting its social-networking strategy to a live test with developers and partners by rolling out a set of social-networking tools the two groups can use to collaborate.
On December 12, at 2:41 am, Ph.D. student Ian Li of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. was feeling miserable and sleepy. The computer science student was in the midst of a three-paper marathon and not having fun.
Conceived in 1977 and opened in 1986, IBM’s Almaden Research Centre is a commanding modernist bunker at the crest of a hill near San Jose. It faces away from the city and into the beautiful distance, which is as a good a metaphor as any for the work that goes on there.