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Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Among those Ballmer named were AOL, Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! Latest photo stories from silicon.com Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! [02 May 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. Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration... [23 Apr 2008]
Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord
News Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories. Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a presence... [22 Apr 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown Another story that was big news on silicon.com this month is a report suggesting the UK may be falling out of love with Facebook. Stories of the month - February 2008 [28 Feb 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment Read what Dan Nye has to say about LinkedIn's future and other networking tools like Facebook on page two. During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making... [28 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News Business execs snub Facebook But one group not down with the social networking trend is CIOs - a poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel found most snubbed Facebook because of the amount of "silly applications" and lack of business use. [30 Jan 2008]
Business execs snub Facebook
News Social networking website Facebook is being snubbed by professional executives because of the increasing number of "silly applications" and lack of business use. Just one of the 12 IT executives in silicon.com's weekly CIO Jury IT user poll said... [11 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - October 2007
News Meanwhile, October saw the arrival of silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setters list which emphasised the impact of a new generation of tech leaders, with 23-year-old Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, named the most influential figure in tech this year. [31 Oct 2007]
Surprise omissions and trends
AS Analysis Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt - a lone Google name, for a change - have come close but the ascendancy of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, in with a bullet at the top, put paid to that. Diane Greene of VMware is not only leading one of the big tech success... [12 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - August 2007
News The tech savviness of school leavers may have a lot to do with Facebook but nearly half (43 per cent) of workers said the social networking phenomenon has been banned in their workplace. Facebook banned by half of employers silicon.com's tech guru... [31 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up But back to the productivity black hole of Facebook. According to yet another report, our Facebook addiction is costing businesses billions of dollars a year. According to one study, around half of UK businesses are cutting off their employee's... [24 Aug 2007]
Web watchdog warns of social network perils
News Despite the warnings, Enisa said Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are the online success stories of the 20th century with MySpace recently welcoming its 100-millionth user. The European watchdog for web and information security, Enisa, has warned of... [17 Aug 2007]
CIO Essentials: Facebook, data breaches and email overload
News Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake The use of Facebook by prospective employers is an interesting use of social networking. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter. [07 Aug 2007]
