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Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch
News And searching the name of a friend could provide links to the social-networking sites the friend uses. announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more... [03 Apr 2008]
Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits
News A user's status message can also be updated on the go, and friend requests can be made and responded to. BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched. [02 Apr 2008]
Small Business Webcast: Why an IT Partner Might Be Your Company's Best Friend (Level 100)
White Paper Locating and retaining the proper technical resources can be a challenge for small businesses. Many find it more efficient to partner with an IT provider than to hire an in-house technology staff. This webcast discusses how a small business can... [28 Mar 2008]
Facebook ups privacy and says it wants to Chat
News Naomi Gleit, Facebook's product manager for privacy and internationalisation, previewed the updated options, which include a new "Friend of Friends" option based on social proximity - not unlike LinkedIn profiles, in which profile information is... [19 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Once people decide to buy something from their friend's wish list they are directed to the Amazon.com checkout page to make the purchase. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to... [14 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment A little while ago a friend of mine got a mobile phone bill. My friend contacted his credit card company - because these days you don't report this stuff to the police - which very quickly agreed to remove the charges from his bill. [13 Mar 2008]
Millions of Britain's PCs going to waste
News Only one in 10 Brits claimed their discarded computer was recycled via a manufacturer's recycling facility and four in 10 said they gave their old computer to a friend or charity. Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill... [10 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Once in my office, I buy flowers for delivery to my significant other, purchase a golfing magazine subscription, pay some bills and buy an iTunes gift voucher for a friend - all using my credit or debit card information. [25 Feb 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a Mars bar - and the friend they want to send it to before paying using their PayPal account. You can now send your Facebook friends chocolaty gifts which they can... [14 Feb 2008]
Five Steps to RFID Deployment
White Paper It was first used over sixty years ago by Britain to identify friend and foe aircraft in World War II. Contrary to perceptions fostered by the recent buzz around mandates from WalMart, Target, Albertson's, the Department of Defense and others, RFID... [17 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment I was talking to a friend of mine in the pub after work the other day. My friend rather smugly revealed that he had just got a new laptop from his employer. And after discussing some of the biggest geo-political issues of the day - Hillary Clinton... [15 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up He's so focused," opines long-time friend and CEO Steve Ballmer, as Bill drives to work with his briefcase on the roof of his Lexus. "And now, the end is here And so I face the final curtain. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took his final bow on... [11 Jan 2008]
Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network
White Paper The paper also examined how factors such as school affiliation and informal online "Friend" list affect the observed behavior and temporal patterns. This paper has analyzed the fully-anonymized headers of 362 million messages exchanged by 4.2... [09 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008
Comment To abandon all people who refuse to exert sufficient energy to try and understand, and fight their way to a solution, or who refuse to pick up a new technology and see it as a friend and opportunity instead of an enemy representing even more pain. [03 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment Imagine tracking everything from food spoilage and stolen auto parts to social nets that alert you when a friend is in the same town, mall, movie theatre or restaurant," suggested senior analyst Richard Doherty, director of Envisioneering, when I... [17 Dec 2007]
