Communication is an essential element of every workplace. It allows you to resolve conflict, clarify expectations and make sure everyone is on the same page. In many cases, the right apps can improve ...

Virtual communication has opened up more channels for dialogue in the office, but it brings abbreviation-riddled, emoji-laced language of text messages into the office. Jenny Kane AP “Proud to say we ...

Microsoft's Office Communication Server "14" is now known as Microsoft Lync 2010, and it's due to hit the market by year's end, said Kirk Gregersen, senior director of Microsoft Office product ...

Salesforce is paying $28 billion to purchase Slack, the intraoffice texting service that has turned the American workplace into a dystopian micro-Twitterverse. Sold as a tool to improve communication ...

Workplace communication — from efficient meetings to water-cooler small talk — can make or break an employee's experience in the office. Geography, perhaps surprisingly, plays a role here: From the ...

In 2020, many organizations were relieved to see that their operations continued with employees working from home. Thoughts of looking at the unused office-centric communications expenses were ...

Microsoft's unified communications division is upping the ante with the release of Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 to manufacturing. Jeff Raikes, president of ...

Virtual offices are now commonplace, especially if most of your customer interactions and transactions take place online. But with this change, we’ve realized that there are plenty of unique ...

Company readies public beta test of latest Office Communications Server, which will let users make phone calls from other Office applications. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in ...