Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces …
6 ways to add social media to your web design
“Fewer people are experiencing your brand on your Website,” says Jeremy Dedic, the user experience practice leader at digital agency Rightpoint. …
Vatican goes social with Pope’s new Twitter account
Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social …
Israel, Palestine fight intensifies over social networks
Israeli and Palestinian forces have taken to the Internet to accelerate their wartime propaganda via social media. As the forces …
Social networks drive IT purchasing process
IT purchasing decisions can be daunting, but a new study by Forrester Research and LinkedIn finds that IT decision makers …
Gartner: Social engineering, big data top security priorities for 2013
The technique of using deception and manipulation to gain sufficient knowledge to dupe an unwary individual, employee or company into …
SAP goes after Salesforce.com in social software market
SAP has made a series of announcements defining itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with …
Business goes social
Infor today announced it is reinventing the look and feel of application interface models. Speaking at the Infor partner conference …
Dubai School of Government reveals findings of social media survey
The findings of a first-of-its-kind survey by the Dubai School of Government (DSG) revealed today that the majority of enterprises …
Salesforce.com drops bid to trademark ‘social enterprise’
Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held …
Hitachi increases focus on big data, ‘social innovation’
Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to …
GoingMad for social
Social media has revolutionised how enterprises operate and how people live their lives. So far the most influential players have …
Google should speed up Apps’ enterprise social networking development
Google may be moving too slowly in building up Google Apps’ enterprise social networking (ESN) features, at a time when …
Indian minister attacks social networks
An Indian federal minister has said that social networks have to be more responsive and responsible, even if they have …
SAP points HANA in-memory database at social analysis
SAP is coupling its HANA in-memory database with software for measuring market trends and customers’ moods through the analysis of …
Google acquires social media marketing firm Wildfire
Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage …
Bing and Google deepen social integration in search
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal …
Six steps to improve BPM in a social-media-driven world
As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how …
Strong growth in enterprise social software spending: IDC
Demand for enterprise social software will grow strongly in the coming years, as more organisations implement the products to improve …
Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social
Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications …