Wednesday, January 16, 2008

InfoWorld Daily: Collaboration software's untold drawback

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Wednesday, Jan 16, 2008
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Table Of Contents:


* Collaboration software's untold drawback
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Early thoughts on Apple's iPhone SDK

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COLLAB- ORATION SOFTWARE'S UNTOLD DRAWBACK

Reality Check: Collaboration may be all the rage these days, but it's
also got a downside IT ought to understand. Collaboration is a bandwidth
killer. "As creators of collaborative software spew out application
after application, other ISVs are quickly following up with what you
might call the antidote: software designed to prevent a tidal wave of
collaborative programs from overwhelming corporate networks," Ephraim
Schwartz begins. Avistar Communications, FaceTime Communications and
Permessa are three such examples, though their approaches differ
somewhat. "Provisioning bandwidth is ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/collaboration_s.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-16

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EARLY THOUGHTS ON APPLE'S IPHONE SDK

Best of the blogs: Macworld starts today and, likewise, so does a
veritable flood of coverage. First up is Tom Yager, who has been
pondering some possibilities about the coming SDK. "Why do an SDK?
Certainly not to make the world happy. If Apple spoke with me about
iPhone, it would point out that I'm among a tiny handful of people
campaigning for a native iPhone SDK," he writes in Thoughts on the
iPhone/iPod touch SDK. "The question in my mind ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/early_thoughts.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-16

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enumerates requirements for success. Download now,
compliments of Surgient:

http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/newsletter/13/80284437/

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