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'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet

News Through the survey, Nortel - the US' biggest maker of telephone gear - was looking to find out how many workers around the world can be defined as "hyperconnected", or as those who have fully embraced multiple devices like mobile phones and...

Tags: laptop, mobile

[14 May 2008]

Disseminating Expertise in Social Networks

whitepaper 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 kinds of information in social networks.

Tags: firewalls

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News The newspaper reported on its website that Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, the social networking site, to see if it would be open to a full acquisition. Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 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 to wake up to the potential of social...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[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 social networking websites Facebook and Bebo.

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[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 cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[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 finger on the pulse of cutting...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[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 social networking, online...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[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, Max Kelly said the attacks have become...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[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 something. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[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 iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping...

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Internet big boys engage in war over Yahoo!

News which would bring in News Corp's MySpace social networking site and create a more formidable rival to internet juggernaut Google, newspaper reports said. Yahoo! which was widely believed to be running out of alternatives to accepting Microsoft's...

Tags: news corp, google, yahoo

[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 between the ages of 13 and 18 should ask their...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[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 offering web developers a slice of its own...

Tags: bigtable, google

[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 were directed towards social-networking sites".

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

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.

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Social networks to stamp out sex offenders

News Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their email address to be passed on to social networking websites to stop them using the sites. The UK Social Networking Guidance published today offers advice...

Tags: criminals, protection, children, guidelines

[04 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News And searching the name of a friend could provide links to the social-networking sites the friend uses. OneConnect mobile messaging and social-networking platform, which still has yet to debut publicly.

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

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...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News Speaking at the world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress - back in February, BlackBerry-maker RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie, said a B2B social networking revolution is on the way. And commenting on the number of Facebook...

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

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