A help desk professional is someone that balances customer service skills with technical competency to assistant internal employees or external clients with computer or technological issues. Internal ...

The rise of social media should horrify any company with crappy customer service. Right now, with minimal effort, any disgruntled customer can use a service like Twitter to voice their complaints to ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which ...

Like a modern-day cavalry, the IT help desk comes to the rescue of frustrated computer users when a cursor freezes or an error message appears. The service ...

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Microsoft commenced a new help desk service today, called "Answer Desk," that appears to be aimed at consumer users. Answer Desk is described as "new service" in a Microsoft blog that was posted today ...

Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately US$50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Assistly’s ...

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Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Outsourcing allows ...