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August 2008
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Messaging News and Osterman Research present Unified Communications and Messaging Podcasts
Listen as messaging analyst Michael Osterman interviews Frank Cabri, VP of Marketing for FaceTime, on the state of Unified Communications.
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Angelbeat
Detroit, MIJ
August 11, 2008
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Angelbeat
Cleveland, OH
August 12, 2008
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SecureWorld Bay Area
Santa Clara, CA
September 10-11, 2008
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eSeminar Social Networking Has Entered the Building: Enable the New Internet
Watch now!.
Securing today's Internet requires more than simple Web filtering. Web 2.0 applications, real-time communications and the world of social networking present additional security challenges - spyware, rootkits, information leakage, and non-compliance with regulatory and e-discovery requirements.
Join FaceTime experts for this on-demand eSeminar and get informed! Watch now!.
Court Declares Reuters Messaging May No Longer Use FaceTime Technology
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgment in favor of FaceTime Communications Inc. in a contract dispute with Thomson Reuters Inc. over Reuters' use of FaceTime's intellectual property.
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So what do we think? Click here to read Kailash Ambwani's,
FaceTime's President and Chief Executive Officer, blog posting.
What Every IT Manager Should Know about e-Discovery
The key to surviving e-Discovery requests is preparation based on knowledge of what is expected, what is considered reasonable, when asked to locate and provide electronically stored information. Here's some tips to make sure you're prepared…
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Caught Stealing with Yahoo! Mail?
What right does your employer have to watch what you do on your work computer? What if you're stealing documents and other confidential information? The former CEO of Structured Settlements alleges that he was unfairly let go, due to some serious corporate snooping.
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Stop by blog.FaceTime.com to read posts, leave a comment, ask a question or suggest a topic to explore.
Unified Communications Boost for Customer Satisfaction
Want to improve your customer satisfaction by 20 percent? One study says that implementing unified communications is key, and more important than you might think.
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IBM/Lotus Sharpens Weapon for Unified Communications Battle
In yet another sign that unified communications is coming to every business near you, IBM/Lotus has announced that it's banking on the integration of its Sametime platform with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders.
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Easy Google Income
You're smart. You know that whether the deal is online or offline, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But other people out there, those poor IT-naïve minions, they just don't know better than to trust a get-rich-quick scheme. Here is one that's actually clever, though quite dangerous for the gullible.
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Most Security Breaches Go Unreported
Each year, it never ceases to amaze us that security breaches manage to rise as technology otherwise gets smarter. We recently learned that this data, however shocking, is not entirely accurate. Here's the true shocker - more than 89% of security breaches go unreported, that is, at least according to a study presented at this year's RSA conference.
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New Spyware (Wrongly) Claims It Won PCMag Award
You've got to pity the poor soul who falls for malicious anti-spyware software that in fact is actually spyware.
It's so easy for fraudsters to tout themselves as the best spam-protection software of the year.
Here's one way to tell the fakes from the real thing, in case you haven't figured it out for yourself.
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FaceTime Protects Enterprises from Information Leaks over Collaborative Suites like Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime
In a recent survey that we commissioned, Osterman Research found that 57 percent of IT staff at mid-to-large size corporations believe their corporate data is not adequately protected from leaks via IM and/or unified communications.
FaceTime makes it easy to create and enforce policies across users and departments to help prevent data leakage.
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IT Hiring Down Year over Year
Don't worry, your job is probably safe, at least for now. But IT hiring has slowed, and organizations are being more cautious about their IT hiring practices. The good news is that the pay for IT professionals is still increasing.
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e-Discovery: IT Execs Are Overconfident and Underprepared
Are you confident in your readiness for legal trouble at your company? If you're the typical IT manager, you're probably smiling and thinking "yes, yes, miles and miles of yes." But, you're likely also one of the 98% of IT managers who think they're plenty prepared for legal troubles, but aren't close to being ready to deal with these problems if they happened to arise.
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FCC Formally Rules Comcast's Throttling of BitTorrent was Illegal
In a big win for P2P file-sharing company BitTorrent, federal regulators ruled that Comcast had no right to slow down file sharing without informing its customers how it was managing traffic on the backend.
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How to Encrypt Data on Your Laptop for Holiday Travel
It's happened to the best of us. We've kept a close watch on our laptop, yet somehow it's slipped out of our view for a moment and was either lost or stolen while we were trying to enjoy our vacations. While we can't prevent your laptop from getting stolen, here's some great advice on how to keep your data safe.
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