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Today Facebook announced the launch of video calling, powered by Skype, along with other chat improvements. This could be the catalyst that makes video chatting, once reserved for only The Jetsons, go mainstream.
The new functionality has been built into Facebook’s Chat feature. To call friend, users just click the video call button at the top of the chat window.
This new feature available in more 70 different languages and it will be rolled out over the next few weeks.
Another development in the chat feature includes a new sidebar that lists the …
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The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the third Thursday of each month and everyone is welcome. With 24 June comes Super Third Thursday and the focus is enabling internal social communities.
Companies that embrace social media give employees the tools they need to collaborate, communicate and innovate across organisational lines, geographic locations and time zones. There are plenty of benefits:
more productivity
better collaboration and communication
innovation boost
decreased IT costs
easier knowledge management
improved product development cycles
increased profits
improved efficiencies
Our speaker is Chris Gledhill, managing director of PDMS, the Isle of Man’s largest software …
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A few weeks ago I received an invitation from director of information systems at the Isle of Man Government’s Allan Paterson to attend a two-day workshop for IT organisations. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but by all accounts it was a great success.
The programme was funded by Microsoft but was not focused on its software alone. Instead, the workshop highlighted proven best practice skills and strategies in the areas of market development and in coping in global markets.
This workshop had previously been delivered to more than 1,000 companies world-wide, and was …
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The British Computer Society Isle of Man section continues to offer up great events for Island residents who work in IT and anyone who just likes to use computers. Last week, the group held one of the most popular events so far this year: Microsoft’s Huw Turvey’s preview of Windows 7.
More than 50 people were on hand to learn about the new operating system, that is being heralded as faster, more reliable and easier to use than its predecessors.
The BCS Isle of Man section’s chairman is Mike …
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There was a time, not so long ago, that people would have refrained from using Hotmail or Gmail as their email domain for business. Now, according to Gartner, the research company, that’s all set to change as the software as a service (SaaS) model for email is leading the way to the large-scale adoption of cloud computing.
According to Gartner analysts, SaaS email is already proving attractive for many companies and will represent 20% of the commercial email market by the end of 2012. In 2007, the SaaS email …
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Windows Vista got mixed reviews and created a healthy debate, it’s true. The next iteration promises to build on user feedback to produce Microsoft’s best OS yet:
“Windows 7 was built around your feedback, so you’ll see a lot of things you’ve asked for. You asked us to make everyday tasks faster and easier, make your PC work the way you want it to, and make new things possible. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
The BCS Isle of Man section presents Huw Turvey, an expert from …
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Last week my firm launched a tech start up at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, California. Our client was the only British company participating this time and the overall number of star-ups was half what it had been in previous years.
But still, the place was packed out with venture capitalists and reporters all looking to discover the next big thing.
Many of the participants will have been born as labours of love in the basements, garages and apartments of keen code writers, all now looking for a leg …
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THE United States Patent Office was established in 1790 and the very first patent was issued to a gentleman named Samuel Hopkins who patented a process for making potash, a type of potassium compound used to make soap. The patent was signed by President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.
Since that time the US Patent Office has issued millions of patents and it’s no coincidence that when it comes to the most patents achieved, IT brands top the list.
The first organisation to break the 4,000 patent …
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Yesterday we accidently sent a news release about a Microsoft compatible product to a reporter that covers Linux exclusively. Almost immediately we got a reply that more than a little sarcastic along with a threat to block our email.
Some might say there is no reason to be rude or hostile over a genuine mistake — a box left unticked. That’s probably true, but when you put yourself in the reporter’s shoes, you can understand. He likely gets dozens, probably hundreds, of badly targeted stories pushed to him every day. Especially …
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At their professional developers’ conference that took place last week in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the many ways it intends to extend its software services via the web.
In a long expected answer to Google Apps, the folks from Redmond demonstrated, for the first time, their new Web applications for Office, which are lightweight versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that are used with the browser.
Now anyone can use all of the web, phone and PC versions of Office to edit and collaborate on the same document. Click …
