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Rumors of a Gphone refuse to die
News Yet another report predicting Google is about to release its own phone raises more questions than it answers about Google's mobile strategy.
Tags: Development/design, Google Android, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Phone, network, Google Android, Smart Phone, Wireless
Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability
Blogs Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a sui...
The PCs that the flood took away
Blogs As a super typhoon prepares to lash the Philippines this week--the third time in a month--I ask for the indulgence of th...
Facebook friends don't ask friends for money
News In latest Facebook scam accounts are hacked and imposters are sending out pleas for money from friends.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Hacking, CBS Corp., Friend, Spokesperson, antivirus, Colorado, phone, social networking
Social networking risk: Managing the inevitable
Techguide The enterprise needs to shift its attention to a more insidious potential use of social networking sites--social engineering activities.
Tags: Business security, Data security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Friend, Friendship, Survey, social engineering, Tom Olzak, phone
Easy for common sense to get lost in Web 2.0
Blogs Congratulations are in order because...I got married! Okay, okay, so technically, April 1 was two days ago and prank...
Google, Bing continue gains at Yahoo's expense
News Over last several months fewer and fewer searches have been performed on Yahoo's sites, with market leader Google and upstart Microsoft seeing the benefits.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S., Internet search, Asia-Pacific, ComScore Networks Inc., Yahoo Search, barrier
When was the last time you wrote a letter?
Blogs Growing up, I used to relish every visit to the stationery shop. I'd spend hours browsing through row after row of c...
Internet security is everyone's business
Blogs About a month ago, a friend of mine revealed that his bank account had been compromised and that an unknown person or pe...
Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon
Blogs Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't...
Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish
News Google adds nine new languages to its translation service--which can translate text, comments, live chat, or entire Web pages--bringing the total to 51.
Tags: Business applications, machine translation, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Gmail
Microsoft to release free security software soon
News Software maker will release its Microsoft Security Essentials "in the coming weeks," according to a note sent to testers.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, antivirus, Facebook, Microsoft Windows
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Translations for Facebook Connect allows Web developers to tap technology that has been used to translate the social network itself into 65 languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Site, Web Site, single sign-on, authentication, Google OpenSocial, Lee, Web 2.0, board, Facebook
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
