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FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Social networking sites as infection hotbeds Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer... [15 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and... [10 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on... [26 Mar 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study But what the 30,000-odd students at Birmingham University don't get to see as they update their MySpace page over a late breakfast or browse course modules during lectures, is the network infrastructure that lies behind this moveable feast of web... [18 Mar 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News Corp.s MySpace.com. [13 Mar 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News Marks, a veteran of blog search start-up Technorati, now works on the search giant's OpenSocial initiative, which is working toward a universal standard for social networking standards and is slated to launch on MySpace.com and Hi5 as well as... [03 Mar 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News In contrast MySpace has seen a nine per cent fall in the number of unique visitors year on year with around five million users. And Bebo is now hot on the heels of MySpace for second spot in the UK, enjoying a 53 per cent increase in users to 4.1... [22 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment She says employees are making use of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube creating a culture that exploits the new communication and connection features. As content from iPods, TV and websites starts to invade enterprise routers and servers, pundits... [19 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday
Comment I'm now launching MySpace on the mobile phone. executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch this spring - which allows users to aggregate all their social networking comms in one place. [14 Feb 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music... [12 Feb 2008]
Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid
News Meanwhile, on Saturday a TechCrunch blogger cited rumours that News Corp.which had considered merging its MySpace social-networking site with Yahoo! Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be immediate. [04 Feb 2008]
BBC beds down with MySpaceTV
News BBC Worldwide has clubbed together with MySpace to bring new and archived content to the social networking site's new video platform, MySpace TV. Selected BBC content will be available to subscribers to the BBC Worldwide channel on MySpaceTV for... [24 Jan 2008]
Social networking "white elephant" warning
News Issues that businesses need to consider before investing developing internal social networking tools include protecting personal intellectual property and people's preference for using existing non-professional external networks such as Bebo... [13 Dec 2007]
IBM Wants You to Get Social at Work with Lotus Connections
White Paper "MySpace for the workplace" could describe the social networking tools that organizations will be seeking in an effort to bring Web 2.0 technologies to work. This IDC whitepaper looks at how IBM's Lotus Connections is intended to help organizations... [07 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of MySpace. [29 Nov 2007]
