Network World: Bring your own everything The "bring your own" craze started with instant messaging but certainly didn't end there. Today employees are bringing the rest of their social network tools to work, their own smartphones, their own computers, and now, with the advent of Google Voice, their own phone number and voice mail. Network World: Microsoft's Free Windows Live Essentials Beta Debuts The new Windows Live Essentials beta will be available for public testing starting Thursday, according to Microsoft. A collection of free Web-oriented applications and services for Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs, Live Essentials is currently available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish. Network World: Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service. Network World: PalTalkScene Adds Video to Its Chat PaltalkScene is a full-featured messaging/chat program that includes video, audio, and a host of other bells and whistles, as well as the ability to send and receive messages from several other chat programs or protocols, including Facebook and Yahoo IM. It is fairly easy to install and use, though the free version has ongoing banner ads which make the inter ... Network World: Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling Six months after agreeing to consider a case regarding employee privacy rights in the workplace, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. Unfortunately for the Ontario police officers involved in the controversial case, and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court found that employers have a right to employ reasonable monitoring efforts on ... Network World: Using e-mail safely and well In recent columns, I've been posting notes for public discussions on topics of Internet safety and appropriate behavior held at the Brown Public Library in Northfield, Vt. Today's column is the one-pager I distributed at the second of the discussions, which dealt with afew key points about using e-mail effectively and safely. Many of the points were drawn fr ... Network World: E-mail subject line length and truncation In all the excitement over social media the original vehicle for online social interaction, e-mail, tends to get overlooked as a central component of how to connect with people to achieve a specific goal. Network World: Skype vs Google Talk Skype and Google Talk overlap in offering VoIP, video and instant messaging over the Internet, but the wild card that will determine whether one rival triumphs over the other is what Google might do. Network World: Microsoft Windows Live Refresh Streamlines Communication Microsoft unveiled a major refresh of the Windows Live Essentials suite. The video overview focuses primarily on the improved photo editing, management, and sharing features--which do seem fairly impressive. But, small and medium business customers will be much more impressed with the expanded features and functionality of Windows Live Mail. Network World: Should You Not Donate by Text Message? We all have our excuses for not donating to disaster relief funds or to our favorite charities: We're broke, the donation process is too complicated, we lack the time to write and send a check, and so on. Mobile donating--giving money to an organization via text message--makes giving a little easier. But is it safe? And does it have a significant impact on t ... Microsoft cloud service deployed by Kentucky schools

Network World on Messaging The latest messaging news and analysis from Network World Fusion. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·Bring your own everything The "bring your own" craze started with instant messaging but certainly didn't end there. Today employees are bringing the rest of their social network tools to work, their own smartphones, their own computers, and now, with the advent of Google Voice, their own phone number and voice mail. ·PalTalkScene Adds Video to Its Chat PaltalkScene is a full-featured messaging/chat program that includes video, audio, and a host of other bells and whistles, as well as the ability to send and receive messages from several other chat programs or protocols, including Facebook and Yahoo IM. It is fairly easy to install and use, though the free version has ongoing banner ads which make the interface seem cluttered and busy, distracting your eye from the ... ·Anonymous malice and e-mail protocol A couple of incidents recently reminded me of principles I teach my students in computing courses about how to govern ourselves when using e-mail. ·How to Leave Work Early Working 9 to 5? What a way to make a living--especially because it's not uncommon for the typical workday to stretch to 6:00, 7:00, or even later. But what can you do? You have calls and e-mail to return, meetings to attend, and TPS reports to file. It's enough to driveyou crazy, if you let it. ·Business school swaps Google Apps for Microsoft Live@edu A French business school plans to trade Google Apps, used by around half its staff and students, for Microsoft's rival Live@edu service. ·Microsoft's Free Windows Live Essentials Beta Debuts The new Windows Live Essentials beta will be available for public testing starting Thursday, according to Microsoft. A collection of free Web-oriented applications and services for Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs, Live Essentials is currently available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish. ·Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling Six months after agreeing to consider a case regarding employee privacy rights in the workplace, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. Unfortunately for the Ontario police officers involved in the controversial case, and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court found that employers have a right to employ reasonable monitoring efforts on state-issued devices. ·Using e-mail safely and well In recent columns, I've been posting notes for public discussions on topics of Internet safety and appropriate behavior held at the Brown Public Library in Northfield, Vt. Today's column is the one-pager I distributed at the second of the discussions, which dealt with afew key points about using e-mail effectively and safely. Many of the points were drawn from articles originally published in this column ov ... ·E-mail subject line length and truncation In all the excitement over social media the original vehicle for online social interaction, e-mail, tends to get overlooked as a central component of how to connect with people to achieve a specific goal. ·Skype vs Google Talk Skype and Google Talk overlap in offering VoIP, video and instant messaging over the Internet, but the wild card that will determine whether one rival triumphs over the other is what Google might do.

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