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Social Networking and UC - One Vendor's Perspective

Linking social networking to unified communications (UC) has generated some interesting conversations. Some of my points have been validated and others refuted. It has been a learning experience worth sharing.



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Survey: Telecommuting improves productivity, lowers costs

Employees who wish their employers would let them work from home now have more stats to include in their business cases for telecommuting, according to a new survey conducted by CompTIA.

| Research | Business | 10/10/08 at 9:40 am |


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Offshore outsourcing: what role will recession play?

The ongoing credit crisis is a concern for everyone in nearly every industry-fear of lost jobs, foreclosed homes and bankrupt businesses. But those lost jobs are likely to further bolster the booming offshore outsourcing market -- so the experts predicted. Fast-forward two months: it's time for them to eat their words. Neither are customers outsourcing more nor is the industry growing any faster. In fact each day service providers only revise their growth estimates in the downward direction.

| Opinion | Business | 10/10/08 at 9:27 am |


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Will the bailout have any impact on executive pay?

Do the restrictions on executive pay that legislators added to the bailout bill, also known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, go far enough? Or will executives find ways to capitalize on loopholes, as they did with limits on CEO pay that were written into bankruptcy laws in 2005?

| Feature | Business | 10/10/08 at 9:20 am |


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