IBM, which has quietly supported many telecom players, is now stepping up its mobile profile, buying up Israeli mobile app provider Worklight and releasing a new device management tool for enterprise customers. The moves help IBM capitalize on the push toward mobile by companies as they manage an exploding number of devices and apps. MORE >>

The summer issue of California Management Review a couple of years ago contains an article co-authored by myself together with Rob Cross of the University of Virginia, Kate Ehrlich of IBM, and John Helferich of Northeastern University, titled Managing Collaboration: Improving Team Effectiveness through a Network Perspective. Sales. MORE >>

You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. To help users access their social network at any time from anywhere, Connections 3.0 As you might expect, Connections plays nicely with IBM’s other tools, such as Lotus Notes and Sametime, but new in 3.0 MORE >>

Yammer has big name recognition in the burgeoning field of enterprise social networking — its product lets colleagues chat about projects and share tips in a business-defined context. IBM Jive Microsoft social networking YammerOr it could do both and put Yammer everywhere. Right percent in that time frame. MORE >>

A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “ The 2010 Social Business Landscape &# that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. MORE >>