Today's highlights: Microsoft on Live Meeting Adoption; Motorola Q; David Coleman on Screen Sharing; Tupperware Deploys OCS; Central Desktop Pre-Release; NetOffice;
- Microsoft is working with Incentive Logic Inc. to design a customer loyalty programme for Office Live Meeting. Subscribers are rewarded with gifts and airline miles for holding Live Meeting sessions. eWeek
- Motorola unveiled the Q, a device for wireless email and voice telephony, designed to compete with the RIM BlackBerry. It has a color screen, and runs Windows Mobile from Microsoft. Available 1Q2006. Computerworld
- David Coleman of Collaborative Strategies has been experimenting with some Pillar 3 products ... Glance, GoToMeeting, and Persony. He concludes that GoToMeeting has the quickest screen response. Collaborative Strategies Blog
- Tupperware implemented Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle Portal, to aid with business process streamlining and better communication with its sales force. Tupperware selected OCS last year. Yahoo
- Central Desktop will be releasing its pre-release version on August 1. Central Desktop offers a Web-based collaborative workspace, encompassing files, tasks, calendaring, personal and shared workspaces. Central Desktop
- NetOffice introduced an outsourced phone and data service, enabling the sharing of contacts, tasks and files via Internet-connected Windows and Mac computers. The service includes call forwarding, voice mail, fax-to-email, and a shared workspace. Available immediately. NetOffice (PDF on Shared Spaces)
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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