Weekly News Wrap Up – CTO notes GSA virtual meeting and more

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Our CTO, Barbara Nelson, always points out some good industry news clips, and I liked the variety last week. So I compiled these for you.

1. GSA advances the virtual meeting place
To really convince people to move off airplanes and on to telepresence, they are setting up video-conference facilities in 11 cities, to minimize the need for travel.
See NextGov for the full article.

2. Collaboration services drive cloud-based apps
Salesforce.com lets social media paradigms help shape applications. “Why can’t all enterprise software be like Facebook?” asked Alan Barr, RVP of telecoms, media and technology at Salesforce.com, during a keynote presentation at Broadband World Forum in Paris. “It’s engaging, it encourages collaboration – enterprises need services like this that are secure, reliable and private.”
See TotalTelecom for the full article.

3. Using the OpenMobile Platform:
“Coming to the end of my European travels – Open Mobile worked flawlessly at SFO, Heathrow, Dublin, Frankfurt and Paris airports, as well as at all my hotels. A perfect field-testing experience with OpenMobile.” She’s a happy mobile employee!