Posts tagged collaboration tools
Is it time to do away with email?
Dec 15th
by Nestor E. Arellano
I’ll be off this Friday and two more days next week. My editor, Brian, will be taking a few days off this week as well and I imagine a few other writers at IT World Canada will be taking some staggered days off during the holiday season just as most workers in other companies will be this month and the next.
A good way to catch up on rest, spend some quality time with family and hopefully get away from work email.
But maybe that last thought on email isn’t quite right. Could you imagine how much mail your inbox would accumulate if it went unattended for even just a couple of days?
Nestor Arellano
Email overload has been a constant complaint ever since the technology was introduced to corporate communication. I seriously think that whatever amount of paper mail email might have done away with, it has returned a hundred fold in digital correspondence – to the point that the typical workforce is now weighed down by the daily churn of online messages pinging back and fort at the office.
Some studies say that if a worker receives an average of 15 emails a day, reading through them could take up at least an hour of interrupted work. If that worker is part of a 20-person workplace that could amount to 20 hours of work time lost each day or a loss of $2000 per week based on $20//hour salary. A survey by Salesforce.com also found that 70 per cent of emails sent at work were had no relevance to work at all. Read the rest of this entry »
Cisco Announces a Business Tablet: Let the Tablet Wars Begin
Jul 16th
On June 29, 2010, Cisco unveiled the Cius, a mobile collaboration tablet (with a camera and video camera) targeted at business users.
With Cius, there was limited hype, Twitter talk or product spec leaks leading up to the announcement that would indicate Cisco was thinking of launching its own tablet so soon. While the introduction of Cius was a relatively unexpected and sudden move, there is a clear motive. Cisco’s business is all about data — both accessing and transferring it. A tablet such as Cius that is designed to make it easier for end users to consume data, wherever they are, will help Cisco drive forward its core business of selling networking, and communications and video products.
Krista Napier
Pronounced, “see us,” the tablet runs on Android OS, and with the SDK and API, Cisco is allowing Android app developers to tie into their system, enabling external applications to leverage Cisco’s collaboration-related infrastructure components. Cius will be interoperable with Cisco’s TelePresence videoconferencing system and will work with Cisco applications including Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and WebEx tools, allowing users to make a voice or high-definition video call. Perhaps most notable though is that Cius will be shipped with a back facing five megapixel digital camera and a front facing HD video camera, two features missing in the first generation iPad.
