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RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing

Comment People are running out of their two-year contracts and they're coming into the stores and they want to be able to do Facebook and they want to be able to do instant messaging and they want to be able to do email and they ask for those features...

Tags: mike lazaridis, touchscreen, blackberry, rim

[16 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up deal fell through, Ballmer and co started sniffing around Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to see if he was interested in selling the $15bn-rated social networking site. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment One-touch calling from your MySpace page is already available, and Facebook developers have integrated voice application features for community users that want to post calls for friends to track. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

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. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment But age and even a page on Facebook may attract a growing risk to both one's reputation and financial assets and more and more of us are placing these in danger on the internet - easy pickings for an army of fraudsters.

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis

Comment Facebook works because you have to use your own identity with a real name and real photos. Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill.

Tags: email, avatar, identity, freecycle

[01 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Fancy checking your emails or updating your Facebook profile at speeds above 320kmph? Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ How to detect data leaks ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: US...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch

Comment We've got people who are carrying BlackBerrys who are using Facebook. Someone the other day told me that Facebook was banned at their school but she had a BlackBerry and suddenly she became the most popular person in school.

Tags: women, rim, blackberry, population

[18 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08

Round-Up Social networking and advertising is big business these days, just look at Microsoft's $250m investment in the $15bn-valued Facebook. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days. The 1990s internet fireball responsible for millions of...

Tags: web 2.0, iphone, airport, data breach

[14 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment Do you have a Facebook account? During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself

Comment He then went on to complain these young candidates used texting and Facebook to communicate instead of email. The next phase of technology has prompted a repeat performance but this time texting and Facebook are the media being denigrated.

Tags: social networking, recruitment, skills, email

[25 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. But for many CIOs that future has already arrived, argues Howard Greenfield.

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

Comment RIM's Balsillie gets to the point: "My partner and I Mike Lazaridis have been doing the BlackBerry thing for 16 years," he begins, establishing his credentials before moving off to talk about Facebook.

Tags: mobile, google, iphone, blackberry

[14 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense

Comment Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble A key court ruling has cranked up the debate. But what does the decision really mean to those involved in developing and deploying software, asks lawyer Richard Taylor.

Tags: patent, high court, software, law

[13 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video Cheat Sheet: ID cards ¦ Photos: Zoom in on London from the air… ¦ Photos of the month - January 2008 ¦ Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook...

Tags: broadband, id cards, skills, data

[31 Jan 2008]

Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble

Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after...

Tags: facebook, social networks, law, digital rights

[29 Jan 2008]

What is the future for Lotus?

Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. It's all very well to use an infrastructure comprising Skype and Google Mail combined with Facebook when...

Tags: lotus, web 2.0, microsoft, sharing

[24 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up The CIOs questioned expressed a preference for LinkedIn and Plaxo which are, of course, very useful for networking but nowhere near as popular as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, mainly because they're full of IT people talking about work.

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07

Round-Up We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under outrageously high taxes, but by God there's one thing we are the best at in Europe - and that's frittering away what precious, ephemeral time we have...

Tags: mobile, dva, facebook, data

[14 Dec 2007]

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