How 'Facebook at Work' could alter the social enterprise landscape

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	Skype finally adds picture-in-picture video chat for Android phones You can finally keep the conversation going while switching over to another app. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Polycom Remote Collaboration Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges--and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Learn more >> In this Issue How 'Facebook at Work' could alter the social enterprise landscape Samsung is powering down its ChatOn messaging app, report says AT&T backs off threat to halt its fiber rollout How to make sense of Facebook's marketing policies Salesforce and Atlassian team up to help startups give back WHITE PAPER: HP 3 Keys to 5-Star Mobile App Performance Infographic This infographic provides insights on how to measure, focus, and improve your app performance. Download and explore the 3 keys to 5-star mobile app performance infographic today. Learn more >> How 'Facebook at Work' could alter the social enterprise landscape Facebook is readying a new social network for the workplace that could represent the purest manifestation of the consumerization of IT movement to date. The success of 'Facebook at Work' will, however, rest on the company's ability to convince CIOs that it can securely and privately deliver valuable business services. Read More   Samsung is powering down its ChatOn messaging app, report says It's shutting it off in some regions, part of a strategy to tighten the company's software and hardware focus amid disappointing sales numbers. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Next Generation Security Reference Guide With these 6 trends in mind, IT teams can lay the groundwork for a layered approach to protecting their systems, data and users. While the headlines are full of scary storied recounting the latest threats to enterprise networks View Now AT&T backs off threat to halt its fiber rollout AT&T now says it will continue its already-announced fiber optic network expansion to 100 cities, backtracking on comments by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson after President Obama voiced support for net neutrality last month.The move brought a strong retort from critics who say the carrier's fiber optic plans are mostly bogus and were designed as a competitive play against the ongoing Google Fiber rollout. The purported delay in AT&T's investments was quickly seen as an empty threat.In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent Nov. 25, AT&T said won't limit future fiber-to-the-premises deployments to 2 million homes as part of its $49 billion deal to acquire DirecTV. That contrasts with what Stephenson said Nov. 12.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How to make sense of Facebook's marketing policies Facebook says it knows its marketing policies are confusing. In an attempt to clarify, a Facebook policy manager recently broke down some of the specific guidelines and explained how the rules apply to promotions, 'Likes,' donations and sharing. Read More   Salesforce and Atlassian team up to help startups give back Cloud CRM provider Salesforce has long distinguished itself from other Silicon Valley heavyweights by refusing to move its corporate headquarters and offices from San Francisco itself, even as titans like Google, Facebook and Yahoo sprawl their offices all over the East Bay and the Peninsula that sits to the south.Yeah, rent is cheaper there, with San Francisco's legendarily horrible real estate market a major line item for any company trying to make it in the city. But Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a native son, and has long maintained that his company can do the most good for the community by staying put. That philosophy is reflected in Salesforce's much-ballyhooed 1-1-1 model for corporate philanthropy, which has promised that Salesforce puts 1% of "product, equity and time" into charitable causes since is founding in 1999.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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