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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 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 15, 2007, 23:00]
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: 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...
[February 3, 2008, 22:45]
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 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 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 8, 2008, 14:48]
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]
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, 12:20]
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]
Skype Gets Into Social Networking
News VoIP giant Skype is courting the booming social networking scene with the preview of a new free service to coincide with the release of Skype 2.5 Beta on Wednesday. One feature of Skype 2.5 Beta, 'shared contact groups', also plays to the social...
[May 3, 2006, 13:40]
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]
UK Top For Social Networking In Europe
News UK web users are the keenest advocates of social networking in Europe, spending more time on the trend than any other country on the continent. Four out of 10 adults in the UK regularly visited social-networking sites during 2006 — more than...
[December 13, 2007, 7:17]
MySpace Mobile: The Beginning Of Cell Phone Social Networking
Blog MySpace Mobile: The Beginning of Cell Phone Social Networking Could this mark the beginning of “mobinetting” the mobile hybrid of social networking to come? As many analysts confer, social networking like many other things is migrating into the...
[March 23, 2008, 14:20]
Blog And Social-networking Spam Increases
News Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs on Thursday.
[July 6, 2006, 14:20]
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]
BT Readies Social Networking For SMEs
News BT is to launch a social networking and marketing facility for small businesses "in a few weeks". Apart from providing an easy way to set up websites, BT Tradespace enables the linking up of SMEs through social networking.
[April 3, 2007, 9:41]
RIM: BlackBerry's Future Lies In Social Networking
News The secret of the BlackBerry's success is security, according to RIM's co-chief executive Jim Balsillie, but social networking is its future. And change is afoot elsewhere too, according to Balsillie, who said a B2B social-networking revolution is...
[February 14, 2008, 9:10]
