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Social networking: 3G's killer app?
News Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com, which will soon go mobile, could become key applications driving data usage on new 3G wireless networks. I doubt there will be any single killer application, but social networking on mobile phones...
[April 12, 2006, 11:20]
Social networking and portability
Blog Comment I totally agree that the social networking companies themselves will never sanction this if they are making money from keeping people's personal data. However - if tools and standards are created which make it possible to move between social...
[May 9, 2008, 17:43]
Social Networking Now Under Big Yellow's Control, Thanks to Bloxx
White Papers Big Yellow was having a problem with employees becoming addicted to Facebook and other social networking sites; visiting them to excess during working hours. Previously, Grinnall tried to use Microsoft ISA Server to manage web access.
[March 10, 2009, 0:21]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Comment Interesting to note that it's 776 office workers, who admitted to spending [at least] 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites! No sign yet of social networking being a resourceful and productive (read: benefit to the bottom line) use of...
[January 22, 2008, 0:08]
Social networking federation: why not use .tel?
Blog An interesting and potentially useful feature of some recent handsets has been the integration of standard mobile phone contacts lists with the user's social networking contacts lists. Yes, I know, there are plenty out there (and none have taken...
[September 18, 2009, 17:05]
Social networking faces an uncertain future
News Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. The Datamonitor report — The future of social networking: Understanding...
[October 19, 2007, 13:22]
Social Networking and The Employer's Dilemma
White Papers Shoosmiths Solicitors and MessageLabs combine to bring you this legal guide to reducing the risks of online social networking. The whitepaper highlights some of the problem areas that cause employers most concern and provides guidance on how...
[November 16, 2007, 4:06]
Social networking and portability
Blog One of the more interesting speakers at Infosec's "Locking Down Social Networking Vulnerabilities" event today - itself locked down by a power cut just as Facebook's Max Kelly was cutting to the nub of his gist - was Giles Hogben of the European...
[April 22, 2008, 16:39]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social...
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Social Networking - the downside
Blog The bane of social networking. You might also think that social networking - blogging, Facebook, and so on - is part of the IT business, and thus similarly constructed. There is one underlying problem with the business of social networking that...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
Social networking driving server sales
News Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of virtualisation technology, according to Sun. But Richard Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, said there is no shortage of demand for hardware because of...
[October 5, 2007, 8:35]
Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
White Papers However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task - even with 60 million page-views each day. Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job.
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Social Networking: The pros, the cons and the solution
White Papers In recent years, social networking sites have permeated society and there is little doubt that they are here to stay. Today's employees expect to be allowed to visit these sites at work. This whitepaper explores how you can to keep your...
[October 7, 2009, 14:47]
Social networking and portability
Blog Comment I have long wondered what Google and Microsoft will do to assert their authority in social networking and maybe this could be the answer. As CEO of a social networking site for business, but someone with a background in infosec, how these two...
[April 24, 2008, 11:26]
Social networking: the key to advancement
News Networking has become such an important part of career development that several social networking portals have recently emerged. Online Social and Business Networking Communities This white paper provides a look at recently developed social...
[October 25, 2004, 12:50]
Don't block social networking
Talkback We at https://www.thoughts.com agree the corporate computing departments should not block social networking, and that security should not lock down communications with the outside world. The new expense for the computing system is a must as the...
[October 20, 2009, 18:36]
EC tackles social networking safety
Blog Preventing under-age users from using their services: if a social networking site targets teenagers over 13, it should be difficult for people below that age to register. Techie stuff commissioner Viviane Reding called the agreement "an important...
[February 11, 2009, 16:28]
Q&A: Lotus wakes up to social networking
News With echoes of the Notes versus Exchange competition of old, Lotus is now squaring up against Microsoft's Sharepoint collaboration tool with its Lotus Connections social-networking software. However, it seems IBM's Lotus division has finally wised...
[January 26, 2007, 12:43]
IBM launches social networking services
News On Monday, IBM tried to grow its presence in the collaborative software market by announcing a series of new and extensively revised products, including its first product aimed at the field of social networking.
[January 23, 2007, 9:20]
Electronic Arts Embraces Social Networking to Create Better Games on Tight Timelines
White Papers Electronic Arts (EA), one of the world's top interactive game companies, employs social networking to bring its worldwide staff of 9,000 people together to share ideas and improve game development. EA used Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
