Photo credit: Phonescoop.com Who would think that there will be a phone with the Facebook-based operating system? The UK-based INQ company has unveiled the first Facebook phone that has been designed in conjunction with the team behind the popular social network. The INQ phone is based on the Android platform. INQ has been making phones …
Lotusphere 2011: LotusLive is a Direction Small Business Needs to Follow
The Lotusphere 2011 was closed on 2/3/11 and I am still trying to organize my thoughts on a lot if information presented at the conference. The first thought that come to my mind is the Lotusphere’s 1 slogan “Go Social. Do Business”. It well defines the latest trend across all industry segments and applies to …
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Google’s new CEO
Larry Page, a co-founder of Google to step into CEO position on April 4. Google announced that Larry Page would take over as chief executive, succeeding Eric Schmidt, the company’s CEO since 2001. We all know that Google has been struggling in some areas, especially in social networking. Facebook rival has been a most real …
Facebook to go public in 2012
Nothing to be unexpected in that statement. Don’t you agree? Facebook might be breaching a critical 500-shareholder limit this year, after which it will have to disclose financial information or stage IPO by April 2012, according to a new 100-page private-placement memo distributed to potential investors. As usual Facebook spokesman as well as Goldman Sachs declined to comment. …
Facebook Gets a Half a Billion in Private Investment
NYTimes (2011-01-03) – Allegedly Facebook has rased $500 million from GodlmanSachs and a Russian investor (Digital Sky Technologies). On Sunday night, a number of Goldman clients received an email from their Goldman broker, offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.” The email sent …
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What I Want for Christmas and the Cloud
http://www.sys-con.com (2010-12-23) – What I Want for Christmas and the Cloud — What I want for Christmas 2010: 1. A promise from Gartner that they’ll never mention Cloud again. Please, go screw up other parts of the business, but leave Cloud alone. 2. An admission by Private Cloud vendors that if it’s onsite, unmeasured, and has …
Facebook For a Corporate World
Finally a few words about IBM and social networking. Based on what I read in the Facebook for Work article, Lotus Notes Connections is for companies with 10,000 or more employees. Again, the product is being advertised to the enterprise size businesses. Wondering what drives that, is that a price or a functionality? My next thought …
Facebook Messages Won’t Replace Traditional E-Mail, Poll Says
EWeek.com (2010-11-28) — Facebook Messages isn’t likely to replace users’ e-mail accounts, according to a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Still, analysts believe it will have an impact. More than 62 percent of over 3,680 participants in a recent online poll said they wouldn’t use Facebook Messages as their primary e-mail service. Some 17 …
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Could Facebook fragment web?
According to [Guardian.com.uk], Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web. Some of the web’s “most successful inhabitants”, such as Facebook and large telecoms companies, have begun to “chip away” at its founding principles, Berners-Lee wrote in a Scientific American journal essaypublished today. Social networking sites …
Will Facebook take over the corporate email?
Good question: Will Facebook eventually take over the corporate email. I think there is a very good possibility of it. Google is becoming another large corporate machine with all related to this rank attributes. The main email stakeholders, IBM and Microsoft are already large corporate companies and will not be able to catchup Facebook, a new and very fast runner. …
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