MessagingThe latest messaging news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com.Does your phone make you smarter- June 26, 2008 We've been hearing a lot lately about how communications technology reduces productivity and makes people stupider mainly by interrupting people too often, in too many ways. Some studies have gone so far as to quantify the decline in productivity (25% to 30%) due to multitasking. These researchers imply that we'd all be better off turning off our phones, shutting down instant messaging and e-mail, and logging out of Facebook, MySpace and Linked-In. I think they're nuts.http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/062608johnson.html?fsrc=rss-messaging Unified communications and security- June 26, 2008 Unified communications and unified messaging provide a number of advantages for organizations of all sizes: users will be more productive through the consolidation of various communication types; IT departments will become more efficient by integrating management of e-mail, voice, instant messaging and fax into a single system; decision-making will be faster; and companies will save money.http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2008/062308msg2.html?fsrc=rss-messaging Does an employer have the right to view employee text messages- June 24, 2008 Last week, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an employer does not have the right to view employees' text messages without a warrant. The ruling is based primarily on who pays for the storage of the content. For e-mail stored on company's servers, U.S. law is quite clear that employers own the content because they pay for the storage. The Court, however, does not view text messaging in the same way: because employers do not pay for the storage, but instead pay only for the...http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2008/062308msg1.html?fsrc=rss-messaging Facebook, Tencent launch Chinese networking sites- June 20, 2008 Facebook and Chinese IM champion Tencent look set to join the battle for China's social networkers, as both have launched Chinese sites recently.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062008-facebook-tencent-launch-chinese-networking.ht... Yahoo to add new domains to Webmail service- June 19, 2008 Yahoo is adding two new domains to its Webmail service in order to make millions of new addresses available to current and future account holders.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-yahoo-to-add-new-domains.html?fsrc=rss-messag... Should you consider tomatoes in your messaging infrastructure decisions- June 17, 2008 Let's say you were the final decision maker at McDonald's who decided to stop using tomatoes at the company's roughly 12,800 restaurants in the United States. Your decision would certainly make sense given the fact that (a) you wouldn't want people to be harmed by your food and (b) you don't want to be sued for serving food that makes people sick. Now, how would you get the word out to all of these restaurants' managers and staff in a timely way and ensure that they had received the order to...http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2008/061608msg1.html?fsrc=rss-messaging Managing institutional memory- June 13, 2008 Companies have things they need to remember such as domain renewals but how can they remember them over years or decadeshttp://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/061308-backspin.html?fsrc=rss-messaging |