Core Security Technologies researchers uncovered two stack overflow bugs in the Cisco WebEx player and the on-demand WebEx Meeting Center service. Cisco says it has fixed both issues. – Researchers at Core Security Technologies issued an advisory warning on Jan.
31 about two stack overflow vulnerabilities in Cisco WebEx applications. These
vulnerabilities grant attackers code execution privileges on the machine,
according to Core Security.
The stack-based
overflow vulnerabilit…
Plantronics InstantMeeting promises Android and BlackBerry smartphone users one-click connections to conference calls hosted through popular conferencing services such as Cisco WebEx or Microsoft LiveMeeting. Unfortunately, the app sometimes fails to gather the necessary information needed to make the connection& like the meeting ID& forcing manual user intervention. Those often using conference providers known to work with InstantMeeting may enjoy the app, but others attending meetings hosted by a variety of conference providers will find InstantMeeting a redundant waste of time. InstantMeeting is available from Blackberry App World and the Android Market for $2.99. I’d recommend trying the free trial version first, as it can connect a maximum of 20 conference calls, to see if it works for you. To read the full review, check out " Plantronics InstantMeeting Fails to Make Conference Calls Easy". Or if you have experience with InstantMeeting, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
Check out a few new iPhone apps demos to see how apps are changing the way businesses do business.The featured apps and the companies that use them are: Workday, used at illumina; Cisco WebEx, at RTKL; Documents to Go, at Unisys; and Airstrip OB, at Memorial Hermann.
Leveraging the same Jabber/XMPP protocol behind such services as Google Wave and Cisco WebEx Connect IM, Facebook’s Chat application now works with outside instant messaging applications such as AOL Instant Messenger. This means users can bring their friends from Facebook Chat to AIM, and other services without touching Facebook.com. This affords users the flexibility of taking Facebook Chat contacts they might not have on AIM or other IM clients and port them to those legacy clients rather than create new and separate buddy lists.
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Facebook has opened its Facebook Chat application to work
with outside instant messaging applications such as AOL Instant Messenger, the
social network said Feb. 10.
To enable this interoperability, Facebook is leveraging Jabber/XMPP,
open standard for instant messaging used by oth…
Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice as much for one quarter of the previous price. Will users begin entrusting more e-mail and photos to Google server farms? It’s hard to say, but certainly cutting storage costs for its Picasa photo-sharing and Gmail applications is a sign the cloud computing market is maturing. Was the cost cut a competitive gesture? Google’s cut came one days after Cisco Nov. 9 launched its Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail app for $3.50 per user per month with 5 GB of storage.
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Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa
and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice
as much for one quarter of the previous price.
For perspective, that’s enough storage for 10,000
high-resolution photos taken with a 5 …
Cisco told eWEEK it is working on Cisco Inbox, a combination of Cisco WebEx Mail and the company’s social networking tools for businesses, including Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Show and Share video and Pulse tagging. Combined with the company’s new Intercompany Media Engine, Cisco will have a server-software combo Google, Microsoft and IBM would find tough to compete with. At a time when these vendors are looking to well-rounded solutions, Cisco appears to have an edge — and it’s backed by the network.
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Cisco Nov. 9 unveiled several new solutions at its Cisco
Collaboration Summit, most notably Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail and
enterprise social networking tools, including Enterprise Collaboration
Platform, Show and Share and Pulse.
EWEEK detailed the new tools here, and analyzed…
Cisco Systems Nov. 9 jumped into the hosted e-mail and enterprise social networking arenas, challenging Google, Microsoft, IBM and a legion of smaller startups. But what is new here? Guido Jouret, CTO of Cisco’s emerging technologies group, explains how Cisco solutions such as Pulse and Show and Share are different from existing offerings from Cisco’s competitors. In short, Cisco’s network chops afford it integration opportunities that elude the other vendors.
– News Analysis: As eWEEK reported earlier this morning, Cisco Systems Nov. 9
jumped into the hosted e-mail and enterprise social networking arenas,
challenging Google, Microsoft, IBM and a
legion of smaller startups.
Cisco WebEx Mail is a hosted e-mail application that lets customers move
from M…
Cisco Nov. 9 at its Cisco Collaboration Summit began its largest collaboration product launch to date. While the launch covers the usual Cisco strongholds — IP phones to media servers to unified communications — the company also rolled out hosted e-mail from its PostPath buy and enterprise social software. Cisco WebEx Mail is intended to compete with Google’s Gmail, Zoho Mail, IBM LotusLive iNotes and Microsoft Exchange Online. Enterprise Collaboration Platform will battle IBM Lotus Connections and the swath of enterprise social software products from MindTouch, Socialtext, Jive Software and others.
– Cisco Nov. 9 embarked on its largest collaboration product launch to
date, covering products from IP phones to media servers to unified
communications.
The launch theme for today’s Cisco Collaboration Summit is
quot;intercompany collaboration, quot; to allow partners and customers to
exchange…
