Michael Vick, the famed NFL quarterback who served a prison term for his role in dog fighting has not only been reinstated by the National Football League but also given a second chance by signing a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles (whether or not you believe Michael Vick deserves a second chance is not the [...]
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IBM Lotus Foundations Reach Adds Instant Messaging, VOIP
July 15th, 2009 |
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IBM Lotus Foundations Reach brings VOIP, instant messaging, presence and several more messaging and collaboration tools to its Lotus Foundations Start appliance. The offerings are aimed at Microsoft’s Office, Small Business Server and Office Communications Server suites. IBM also created widgets to let users access LinkedIn and TripIt from Lotus Notes.
– IBM July 15 said it is adding instant
messaging, VOIP, file transfer and several more options to its Lotus Foundations appliance, a Linux-based collaboration
server the company makes for its business partners to sell small to midsize
businesses.
IBM next month will offer Lotus
Foundations Reac…
Grounded
July 14th, 2009 |
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Is it all over for the business trip?
THE “Face of Opportunity” contest that British Airways launched on July 14th, giving American business travellers the chance to win a free flight, is a “stimulus to jump-start US business” by helping to “keep entrepreneurship alive and kick up fresh potential for economic growth”. Well, maybe. But it also sounds awfully like a cry for help from an airline that has bet big on business travel and which is now extremely worried that it has bet wrong.
This autumn BA will fly 1,000 businesspeople free from New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to London. Once there, they will participate in a “networking event”, then be flown to another destination of their choice—if they can convince BA’s judges (who include Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, and Bob Lipp, a former chairman of JPMorgan) that doing so would give them a chance to win business that otherwise would be lost. …