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Why your business should use Twitter
Insight perspective Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary explains how businesses can take advantage of it and other social networks.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Twitter, British Telecommunications, social networking, Facebook, network, LinkedIn, advisory board
Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?
News Not quite yet, say industry watchers, but "primary sponsor" Sun Microsystems should rethink its strategy and better drive the community ecosystem.
Tags: Open source, Product development and design, Software engineering/development, OpenOffice, Apache Software Foundation, OpenOffice.org, Open-source Software, David Mitchell, Contributor, Novell Inc.
Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans
News Software giant yields to longstanding demands by Web developers, promising support for PNG, CSS graphics and layout standards.
Tags: Web browsers
Google app sharing exposes corporate data
News The security of Google Docs was compromised when a bug gave some Docs users access to documents they weren't entitled to view.
Tags: Data security, Web services, Document, Security, Google Inc., product manager, blog entry, blog, Google Docs, spreadsheet
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 family pack
News But company doesn't say how much it will charge for the upgrade, which can be used to move three PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows 7, Software, blog entry, Microsoft Windows, blog
Yahoo offers geographic data to Web sites
News The company opens a database of place names and other geographic data and services for use.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Database, Sydney, blog entry, network, Internet, U.S.
Microsoft re-releases security patch for Windows XP
News The security patch first released earlier this month may not have fixed a Bluetooth stack problem that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a computer running the OS.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows, Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., SP3, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Bluetooth, software, blog entry
Facebook on the decline as 'virus' apps take hold
News Privacy problems and propagation of "virus-like" applications has led to a marked decline in the use of Facebook's developer platform, according to industry analysts Ovum.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Security, Application, David Mitchell, social networking, virus, blog entry, Facebook, network
Adobe patches Flash hole
News Adobe issues patch for Flash player vulnerability as worries over unpatched Adobe Reader hole mount.
Tags: Digital media, Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Shockwave Flash, Vulnerability, Adobe Flash Player, iDefense, Attack, Firefox plug-in
Observing the US automated elections
Blogs Before boarding my Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco last Sunday night, a document inspector at the Centennial...
Google quietly starts behavioral targeting
Techguide Last month, Google initiated what it calls interest-based advertising, or behavioral targeting to the rest of us. If this concerns you, find out what you can do.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Microsoft Corp., Cookie, Google Inc., Web Browser, behavioral targeting, Michael Kassner, Rep Boucher, Advertisement
Hotmail users get a storage bump
Insight Microsoft on Monday made a series of updates to its Windows Live Hotmail service, chief among those being an increase in the size of its inboxes up to 5GB for standard users.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Employee communications, Mobile platforms/communications
Monster puts a stop to rogue server
News Online job site Monster pulls the plug on a rogue server that was stealing information about job candidates from its database.
Tags: Web sites, Data security, Network security
Toshiba bumps fast 2.5-inch drives to 200GB
News Toshiba expands capacity of its 2.5-inch 7200RPM drives to 200GB and 5400RPM drives to 320GB.
Tags: Memory, Components
Apple sells refurbished iPhones
News While the US$100 discount may be good news to wannabe iPhone owners with smaller budgets, it sparks a interesting question. Just where are the refurnished iPhones coming from?
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
