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Article | 11/02/2008 Three Minutes With Technorati's CEO

When Richard Jalichandra became Technorati's CEO in October, the company, a blogging and Web 2.0 pioneer, had generated enough drama in recent years t...

Article | 8/02/2008 Google intros Apps edition to bypass the IT department

Google is releasing a new edition of its hosted applications suite that end-users can bring into the workplace without the involvement of their IT dep...

Article | 6/02/2008 Yahoo's Zimbra ships 5.0 suite upgrade

While parent company Yahoo mulls an unsolicited acquisition bid from Microsoft, Zimbra on Tuesday shipped a version of its e-mail and collaboration so...

Article | 31/01/2008 MySpace to launch developer platform next week

MySpace Wednesday will begin letting programmers pre-register for its developer platform program, which will open for business next week.

Article | 30/01/2008 eBay unveils lower fees and tighter seller standards

eBay unveiled changes to its online marketplace Tuesday that the company characterizes as sweeping and historic and that are aimed at boosting sales b...

Article | 15/01/2008 MySpace, US states team up for children's safety

An agreement between MySpace and most US state attorneys general will significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network and bo...

Article | 24/12/2007 Year End - Social networks struggled, thrived in 2007

High drama enveloped social networking companies during 2007 as they pursued significant opportunities and stumbled over mighty obstacles.

Article | 6/12/2007 Facebook tweaks Beacon again, Zuckerberg apologizes

Facebook is giving members of its social network the ability to completely decline participating in the company's controversial Beacon ad system, a re...

Article | 6/12/2007 Experts to Facebook: Mind your manners

Facebook could have avoided the strident, weeks-long controversy engulfing its Beacon ad system if, when designing and deploying it, the social-networ...

Article | 4/12/2007 CA: Beacon's reach extends to non-Facebook users

If you think that just because you have never signed up for Facebook you're immune to the tracking and collecting of user activities outside of this p...

Article | 4/12/2007 Facebook admits Beacon tracks logged-off users

Facebook has confirmed findings of a CA security researcher that the social-networking site's Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than pr...

Article | 3/12/2007 CA: Facebook's Beacon more intrusive than previously thought

A CA security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tra...

Article | 17/11/2007 Users complain new Gmail version slow, crashes browsers

A major upgrade to Gmail is getting the thumbs down from users who complain that the new version is extremely slow, often fails to load pages and even...

Article | 15/11/2007 Disappearing Gmail messages baffle users

When Jeneane Sessum logged into her Gmail account on the afternoon of October 27, she was greeted with a horrifying sight: an empty inbox.

Article | 13/11/2007 Google releases Android SDK

Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers can use to create mobile phone applications for the company's Android mobile pl...