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News Swaminathan added that companies should try to embrace external applications such as those on social-networking sites: "It's a stupid idea to block out mash-ups and... [23 May 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News During the same period, the retailer launched Gurgle.com, a social networking and information site for parents. Online sales at Mothercare rose by more than 78 per cent over the last financial year,... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Satyam is also developing its own in-car networking and car domain system - dot auto - that promises social networking, mapping of nearby shops and services and the ability to pre-pay... [19 May 2008]
Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told
News Analyst house Gartner says social networking sites are starting to attract a broader spectrum of consumers with the rise of career-based networks such as LinkedIn and shopping-based sites. Retailers need... [02 May 2008]
Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
News The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are... [01 May 2008]
Disseminating Expertise in Social Networks
White Paper Professional networking sites expose expertise information to non-collocated social networks, but are limited to keywords input by users. This system architecture can be generalized to distributing other... [01 May 2008]
Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself
News Harrods is looking at using other technology such as Bluetooth broadcasting, RSS and Twitter feeds, social networking and SMS alerts depending on the campaign and target audience. Harrods is using... [25 Apr 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News At Gartner's co-located mobile & wireless and enterprise & networking conferences in London, the analyst house pointed to Apple as an example of a business whose success can be attributed to how firmly it keeps its... [23 Apr 2008]
Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving
News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London,... [23 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment Social networking sites as infection hotbeds The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download... [15 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment Social networking safety plan This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC... [10 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News If heeded, the proposal could put a crimp in social networks' plans to tailor online advertisements to teenagers' behaviours. But as with most social networks, adults are free game. It states teens... [10 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Free to the first 10,000 developers to sign up, this new web-hosting platform will share resources in the same way as Google Analytics, Google Earth and social-networking platform Orkut. Google is... [09 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US... [09 Apr 2008]
