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Comment Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit, London-based media company Pearson - which has been using a telepresence system since 2001 - explained that, yes, videoconferencing has allowed its senior execs to reduce trips...
[28 Apr 2008]
Comment Social networking sites as infection hotbeds Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers. The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments within...
[15 Apr 2008]
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 iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping...
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment Criminals can call on directed phishing attacks using the simple expedients of ransacking rubbish bags and using Google to look for useful information on social networking sites and generally sprayed across the internet.
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment LinkedIn CEO: On 'grown up' social networking Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp on the company. Manocha joined SAS to run the Manchester sales office in 1996 before...
[02 Apr 2008]
Comment But not surprisingly, given the products and services Nortel sells, all things networking and mobile are also high on Bandrowczak's list of priorities. Steven Bandrowczak has spent time in both camps and is now CIO at global networking supplier...
[01 Apr 2008]
Comment The main prediction by CIOs for the most-hyped technology in 2008 is green IT, followed by web 2.0 and social networking, m-commerce and - look away now Microsoft - Vista yet again. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from...
[26 Mar 2008]
Comment LinkedIn CEO: On 'grown up' social networking Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new European markets...
[18 Mar 2008]
Round-Up It's only gone and bought social networking website Bebo in an $850m cash deal, hasn't it? Social networking and advertising is big business these days, just look at Microsoft's $250m investment in the $15bn-valued Facebook.
[14 Mar 2008]
Comment ¦ LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking ¦ Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked' ¦ Photos: RFID bumblebees create a buzz What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[06 Mar 2008]
Comment There's also job posting job links on LinkedIn and so we know that people are searching for jobs and they're networking their way closer to the person that posted the job, they're getting introduced by friends who know the person that posted the...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment 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. Yep, CIOs are going to have to get down with the kids because...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment But of course MWC is not just a showground for newbies with their weird and wonderful wares (and as many instantly forgettable names starting with 'mobi' you can think of) - the event is a must-attend magnet for mobile royalty - from the Arun...
[10 Feb 2008]
Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. Hard as it's been to escape the growing popularity of Facebook, news that the rights owners of Scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel...
[29 Jan 2008]
Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary...
[24 Jan 2008]
Round-Up By and large, silicon.com’s CIO Jury is less than impressed with Facebook's potential for corporate networking. The uber-social networking phenomenon - Facebook, not the CIO Jury - is being snubbed by professional executives because of the...
[18 Jan 2008]
Round-Up Gartner will have no truck with this sort of thing - social networking, not huge, fearsome bears. With Facebook pledging this week to license its developer platform to other organisations, creating your own social networking service will be easy to...
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment Let's say I have a floor of office space, with 15 individual PCs and some personal printers, some networking devices and so on, and I want to see the energy usage across all that floor plan. But how easy is it to come up with a baseline and why...
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment The net community and social networking are probably bigger than any of us can guess. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service at London's Liverpool Street Station It seems ironic that our time of greatest technological...
[06 Dec 2007]
Comment What about email and social networking? Written at London Heathrow airport and dispatched to silicon.com from a hotel in Nice, France, via a free wi-fi service offering serious bandwidth Not so long ago all we had was the telephone, radio and TV.
[22 Nov 2007]
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