Today's news on shared spaces, wireless collaboration, instant messaging, and enterprise collaboration technology:
- The UK Department of Trade and Industry implemented collaboration and communication technology from Interwise, to enable the formation of online communities at its portal site. CIO Today
- ABI Research projects that the Symbian OS will be the defining operating system for mobile phones through to 2009, and that Microsoft will lag the market. ABI believes that smartphones will grow in popularity, "Users will ultimately drive demand for Smartphones because of better functionality for such things as larger screen size, improved menu navigation and a broad platform on which you can more easily add applications to enhance the user experiences. These capabilities are all limited under carrier-specific or proprietary OSs." ABI Research
- FaceTime, in association with a research survey from IDC, claim that "most organizations prohibiting instant messaging in the enterprise fail to address critical network security, information security and regulatory compliance risks posed by its unauthorized use among workers". Adoption laggards cite a variety of reasons for non-adoption of enterprise IM, to which FaceTime responds that those problems have already been solved. FaceTime
- Gartner on top strategic technologies for 2005: IM, WLAN, taxonomies, IP telephony, service-oriented architectures, real-time enterprise infrastructure, and utility computing. ZDNet
- AnchorDesk argues that threaded discussions are inappropriate as a team collaboration tool, and that blogs and wikis are more appropriate. Comments from readers indicate that some of them have experienced better outcomes at their place of work. ZDNet
- Workshare Technologies named a new CEO. Workshare provides software for collaboration on and protection of shared documents. Workshare
- Telstra added the BlackBerry-enabled Nokia 6820 to its line-up of BlackBerry capable devices. Australian IT
- Akonix attempts to clarify the definition and meaning of SpIM (IM spam), which it says is "generated by worms, adware and malware that infect other users' machines". Akonix
- Tzunami released its K-Wise Deployer for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2003, which enables the rapid construction and population of SharePoint sites with documents from SharePoint 2001, file shares, and enterprise document management systems. Yahoo Business
- On Linux on the desktop in enterprise accounts: ""Control is one issue coming up more and more .... People want strategic independence from Microsoft." eWeek
- Proficiency, a provider of collaboration software for engineers, raised $12 million in fourth round of venture funding. Boston Business Journal
- Ezenia! announced that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has renewed its subscription for Ezenia's team workspace solution, InfoWorkSpace. Ezenia!
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