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  • Five Google+ Hangouts features businesses will love

    Though only six months old, Google+ is catching on quickly. Not only has Google weaved Google+ into its existing services, but it has created new features as well. One of those is Hangouts, a multi-user video chat tool that, while free, competes well with other video conferencing tools like Skype.

  • Five reasons your business needs unified communications

    There are so many different ways to communicate with partners, customers and co-workers: by phone, email, instant messaging, fax, video conferencing and social media. Managing each system separately is not only inefficient, but can cause conflicts since they all use the same underlying technology, the Internet.

  • Cisco Cius: A hands on preview

    Toss all preconceptions of the Cisco Cius out the door. This is not just another Android tablet. Instead, Cisco has taken great pains to position the Cius as a very different type of tablet. This is one device whose primary purpose lies less in competing head-to-head with the tablet masses, and more at changing how the enterprise does business.

  • Kinect: Microsoft's unexpected hit

    Microsoft introduced a peripheral device for gaming in November called Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. The product turned out to be a braindead simple-to-use, innovative and completely new user interface. It became the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, and has now sold more than 10 million units.

  • Office 365 is not for small business

    Now that the public beta has begun, I've had a little time to evaluate Office 365, and it's been an interesting experience. I run a small business and am already a Google Apps for Business user, so am I tempted to make the switch?

  • BlackBerry PlayBook vs Apple iPad 2

    Steve Jobs tried to dismiss iPad's tablet rivals as "copycats" at Wednesday's iPad 2 launch. But whether Steve likes it or not, the tablet wars are officially on. And this battle will be decided not only by consumers and gadget lovers seeking the latest and greatest slates, but also by businesses and corporate workers looking for the next game-changing productivity tool.

  • Hands on with the iPad 2

    Immediately after Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco, he invited members of the media to visit a special hands-on area right behind the theatre, the same setup Apple used a year ago to introduce the original iPad.

  • The 5 coolest things to come out of CES

    Anyone who's attended tech conventions over the past five years has heard plenty about 4G wireless networks, but this year the hype has become a reality.

  • Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

    A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.

  • Video conferencing will never replace voice calls

    In a famous exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, AT&T Bell Labs demonstrated the Picturephone Mod 1, a small, oval device with a camera and a screen that allowed two people to see each other while they talked over the telephone network. Six years later, the device was still in trials.





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