Nucleus Research finds that corporate workers lose nearly 1.5 percent in office productivity by using Facebook at work, the latest study on whether social networking sites hinder or help enterprises. The research company also finds that Facebook is used as an alternative messaging and collaboration platform to Outlook, Gmail and other tools. This may pose security risks. Corporate employees may fritter away nearly 1.5 percent of their office productivity by using Facebook at work, according [...]

IBM, also known as Big Blue, is as big and distributed as any company in the IT industry. In fact, you could say IBM is the New York City of technology companies. Huge. Diverse. Proud to call itself No. 1, though not everyone may agree. And just as the Big Apple often sets trends for the rest of the country, Big Blue has a history of calling plays for the tech market. These days, IBM [...]

The hype over this operating system has been so heavy that failure would be a heavy blow. Google introduced Chrome OS July 7, promising a lightweight, Linux-based operating system for netbooks that will enable speedy Web applications. The move was a major shot at Microsoft, whose Windows desktop operating system Google intimated was antiquated. We at eWEEK have already provided 10 reasons why we are excited about Google’s Chrome OS. But in the tradition of [...]

Microsoft releases 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community under the popular GPLv2 license. Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The software giant announced its move at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Jose, Calif., on July 20. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree, Microsoft said. The drivers [...]

Just when Windows users started to become accustomed to seeing .docx extensions and to finding their way around on the infamous Office 2007 Ribbon, Microsoft is shaking things up again with a brand new version of its omnipresent productivity suite, Office 2010. eWEEK Labs has been trying out the Technical Preview version of the new suite, and we’ve encountered a raft of really useful new features, particularly around data visualization in Excel. What’s more, Office [...]