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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up Also in the top 10 is "text-jacking", which apparently is your friends sending inappropriate things from your phone. We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. [27 Nov 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo It also lets users drag and drop their contacts who also use ON into groups - such as work colleagues or friends - and publish status updates to the separate groups accordingly. ON can also set preferences on how... [26 Nov 2009]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News According to TalkTalk, young people prefer technologies that allow them to contact whole groups of friends rather than individuals one at a time. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. [24 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com platform. The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San... [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment I have this conviction that over time Microsoft will turn around and become one of the biggest friends of open source. In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed. Engineers at the university are developing a robotic dashboard... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment While social networking sites can be fun for connecting with family and friends, they're no use when it comes to professional networking, says the Naked CIO. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most... [11 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Social networks are useless for finding a job
Comment While social networking sites can be fun for connecting with family and friends, they're no use when it comes to professional networking, says the Naked CIO. It's more important to have more friends than... [04 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Another downside - finding out way too much about what your boss gets up to at weekends and who their freaky friends are. Leaving the Halloween terrors behind us, let's talk of an issue similarly likely to strike horror... [30 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News The tool, called Shoutbox, also allows users to comment on their bets and challenge friends on their buddy lists to bets via Facebook and Twitter.bwin.com is used by more than 20 million users globally Screenshot: Tim... [23 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up Nearly half of Brits spend more time chatting to friends online than on the phone or face-to-face, according to the Yahoo! How often have you had the following conversations with your significant other? [09 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Each day, millions of us use mobiles as alarm clocks to get us up in time for work; to book and remember meetings; to distract us from the meetings with social networking applications to arrange a night down the pub; and to surf the web... [02 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Little wonder he counts Stevie Wonder among his friends. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who's been thinking up the future for years - with his on-the-money past predictions including the emergence of the internet and a... [29 Sep 2009]
Deron Beal
AS Profile The Freecycle Network began life more than six years ago as a single email sent by founder and current executive director Deron Beal to a handful of friends and not-for-profits in the US. Today the not-for-profit... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's Chrome-in-IE tech means higher malware risk, says Microsoft
News This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take," Microsoft said. Microsoft on Thursday lashed out against Google Chrome Frame - an Internet Explorer plug-in that supplants IE's rendering engine with... [28 Sep 2009]