Software : Facebook at Work opens up to more friends

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Facebook at Work opens up to more friends Posted: Facebook is finally ready to let more people onto its Facebook at Work social network designed specifically for enterprises and businesses. First reported by Re/code, the closed beta trial of the service that has been open since January is ready to give way to a freemium version of the office-based social network before the year is out, according to Julien Codroniou, head of Facebook at Work. At its heart, the service lets companies create their own social networks using Facebook's familiar technology and its popularity is likely to depend on users knowing what they see and more importantly liking it. More than 100 companies have been using the product as part of the closed beta and it's a number that is continuing to expand. Plenty of competition Encouragingly for Facebook, early adopters have already started to expand its use internally. Taking Heineken as an example, testing was restricted to 40 of its top executives in the first instance but by the end of September it will be used by all 550 of its US-based employees. There's no lack of competition in the social enterprise collaboration space with the likes of Microsoft's Yammer (and Delve), Podio, Huddle, Salesforce's Chatter and a number of others jostling for position. Facebook wants businesses to embrace social with Facebook at Work

Microsoft brings text-email hybrid Send to Android Posted: Microsoft is finally bringing Send to Android phones months after the service arrived on iOS. The app that lets users text and email from the same place is available now in preview form to those that have Outlook and Office 365 business/school email accounts with further functionality expected in the coming months, according to ZDNet. Send, which was once codenamed 'Flow', was released from the Microsoft Garage back in July for iPhone users in the US and Canada. Since then Microsoft has been feverishly adding features to the "in-and-out" email service that encourages short and snappy SMS style messages. New stuff Some of the newest features to grace Send in the past six weeks or so include the ability to add people to conversations, delete conversations, share locations, make phone calls and various other new sharing features. When you first open Send, it feels like you've stumbled into a mix of iMessage, WhatsApp and Hangouts, however, it exclusively relies on email communication and has the advantage that the short messages show inside Outlook alongside regular emails. Send only shows messages that have been sent using the app and you can message anyone that has an email address registered with the service. Windows Phone absent Alongside the Android expansion, which concerns devices running version 4.2 or higher, Microsoft is opening Send for iPhone up to users in the UK, Brazil and Denmark. Send for Android, meanwhile, is available in the same places plus the US and Canada. A Windows Phone version is conspicuous by its absence and there was no news beyond the "coming soon" line that Microsoft trotted out back in July. Surface Pro 4 release date, news and rumours

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