Now is the time to consider a wiki for your Intranet
With the US Army embarking upon a pilot project to make use of wikis to rewrite several of their field manuals, now is the time you might want to consider them for a collaborative Intranet project.
Intelligent Intranets selectively push content to users
It is generally accepted now that an intranet is far more than an internal phone book and document store, the portal approach has been adopted in many organizations with the intranet acting as a one stop shop for process specific business applications, management tools and links to business management systems.
Washington uses Google Apps to power new intranet
When it came time for Washington, D.C., to create a new intranet for city employees, spending US$4 million on a site based on proprietary portal software just didn't seem like a good idea to CTO Vivek Kundra. But using Google Apps did, he said in an interview Tuesday.
Fourth Generation Intranets: The dawn of a dynamic new business tool, inspired by social networking
Today, we live and breathe the Internet. Web 2.0 means its use is active not passive; we use it for information, to garner opinion, pass comment, shop, share photos and engage with like-minded souls and much, much more. But, have business tools like intranets kept pace with this level of interactional behaviour?
XP/Vista Coexistence: Accessing Your Corporate Intranet
Thinking of migrating some of your XP computers to Vista? First make sure that your Vista users will still be able to access your corporate intranet!
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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Fourth Generation Intranets: The dawn of a dynamic new business tool, inspired by social networking
Now is the time to consider a wiki for your Intranet
XP/Vista Coexistence: Accessing Your Corporate Intranet
Washington uses Google Apps to power new intranet
Intelligent Intranets selectively push content to users
Intranets have eyeballs too