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  • 5 things you need to know about videoconferencing

    Your office is now optional. A recent study from Infonetics Research projects that enterprises will spend $5 billion on videoconferencing and telepresence by 2015. To accommodate the need for instant connectivity and information sharing at the office, CIOs need to coordinate IT investments with physical space. Vendors like Polycom and Steelcase are teaming up to integrate audio, video and file sharing using multiple ports and display screens at office meeting tables.

  • Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect

    Facebook's innovative new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> design -- believed to be one of the world's most energy-efficient facilities of its kind -- will have a significant influence on corporate data center build-outs over the next several years, experts say.

  • Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?

    <a href="http://www.quora.com/Bob-Brown-5">Quora</a> is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to  flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as <a href="http://www.quora.com/Will-Cisco-buy-out-EMC">whether Cisco will buy EMC</a>,  <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-enterprise-applications-will-the-iPad-be-good-for?q=ipad+enterprise">how the iPad might be used at work</a> and <a href="http://www.quora.com/Ubuntu/How-can-Ubuntu-be-improved">how to improve Ubuntu.</a>

  • T-Mobile brings VoIP capabilities to Facebook

    T-Mobile is staking out its position as Facebook's official voice carrier, as the company today announced a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/voip.html">VoIP</a> application that lets Facebook users call their friends with their computers.

  • Royal Wedding: Will & Kate & YouTube

    If you really can't wait for a recorded version of the <a href="http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/the_wedding_of_hrh_prince_william_of_wales_and_miss_catherin_1538848844.html">Royal Wedding</a> come April 29, Google's YouTube unit has announced that the Royal Family will provide a live video stream of the big day's events.

  • Microsoft to raise license price, add software rights

    <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> is boosting the price of a license that provides client access to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Server, SharePoint, Exchange and Systems Center, but is sweetening the deal by giving buyers access to a new endpoint <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> product and the new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092910-microsoft-office-communications-server.html">Lync</a> unified communications software.

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