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Socialcast, the enterprise microblogging platform, thinks that HR and C-level executives deserve extra recognition in the corporate status stream. Its new Broadcast Message feature gives announcements by higher-ups priority if

Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management company, has unveiled a developer program for those looking to host both the community and enterprise versions of its software on the Amazon

Socialtext has announced record quarter-over-quarter bookings growth in 2009, bolstered by social computing's growing presence in the enterprise. It's important to note that Socialtext is reporting record bookings, not record

The Windows Phone 7 received a lot of praise after its launch at the Mobile World Congress today for its elegant, minimalist interface. From what we've seen, it does look

eXo offers an open source Java framework for enterprise social software tools. It includes reusable components for building content management systems, user management tools, activity streams, e-mail integrations, mashups

Today Google announced a new version of its Google Apps Device Policy app for Android. New features include the ability to locate a lost or stolen Android device on

Xobni is launching a gadget platform and app store that allows you to run third-party apps in Outlook. It is fairly robust. Xobni is launching with a number of services.

Look at how smart phones are reaching into the enterprise and it's clear a cultural shift is taking place that is transforming the relationship between IT and business users. Smart

Webcasting provider On24 has beefed up and improved support for iOS and Android users for those wishing to participate in its conferences from mobile devices. I do a fair number

According to a survey by uSamp, 80% of users with SharePoint access still chose to e-mail documents to necessary parties instead of using SharePoint. The company Mainsoft is hoping

Red Hat today announced JBoss Enterprise Data Grid 6, which it calls "a cloud-ready, highly scalable distributed data cache." Cameron Purdy defines a data grid as "a system composed

As expected, Salesforce.com announced a freemium version of its enterprise collaboration product Chatter today. Chatter Free will use an invitation model. Any Chatter user will be able invite any

Android has seen astounding growth in both the consumer and enterprise markets, but the iPhone and BlackBerry have dominated enterprise-specific app development. That may be starting to change. Today

In a new report studying social networking on intranets, Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen asserts that despite broad awareness, real execution of Web 2.0 in the enterprise is still rare

Open Text, Canada's largest software company, released two new social enterprise products this week: Open Text Content Server Pulse and Open Text Social Communities. The company also released a

Late last week Socialtext's Michael Idinopulos wrote a post with some interesting advice for anyone looking to start a social software implementation in the enterprise: skip the pilot. His

Last year, when we asked whether Facebook could break into the enterprise world, Constellation Research CEO and principal analyst R "Ray" Wang said "I'd see LinkedIn in this category

This week the firm Strategy Analytics released research indicating that although Apple shipped nearly three times as many iPads in Q2 2011 as it did in Q2 2010, the

By now the use of phones as the second factor in a security solution is well known and there are any number of vendors operating in this space. Even Google

Following the announcement of its partnership with Dell, Cloudera announced a new partner program for resellers and professional services providers. Among the various elements of the Cloudera Connect Partner

DeviceVM, makers of instant-on software Splashtop, announced today a $10 million strategic investment led by SAP Ventures. The investment will be used to expand Spashtop's mobile enterprise reach.

A Google executive told an audience of managers from several federal agencies yesterday that they should expect Google Buzz to be in their enterprise GMail accounts within the next few

GlobalProtect is a new VPN-like solution from Palo Alto Networks for managing network access on enterprise laptops. Unlike a traditional VPN client, GlobalProtect locates and connects through an organization's

You might not recognize me here in the ReadWriteEnterprise channel and for good reason: I loudly and often proclaim that I don't do enterprise. In my mind, enterprise software is

Socialcast is launching a brand new activity stream, an Outlook plugin, an on-premise offering and a private cloud environment. The offerings represents a new effort by enterprise vendors to reach