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Article | 12/08/2008 Social networking behind the firewall

Microsoft calls it TownSquare. Deloitte hosts D Street. IBM has its Beehive, and Best Buy its BlueShirt Nation.

Article | 7/08/2008 New social networks invent twists to stay in game

New social network players say don't call "game over" simply because MySpace and Facebook are pulling in about 70 per cent of the Web traffic that's h...

Article | 5/08/2008 The best TV on the Web

Watching the boob tube once meant having to consume your entertainment in front of an actual television. But these days, if you miss an episode of Gre...

Article | 4/08/2008 Snooping into a co-worker's e-mail? You could be arrested

Ever pass by a co-worker's unattended computer and consider taking a peek at her e-mails? Or have you ever thought it would be a funny prank to figure...

Article | 30/07/2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 beta ramps up

Security software customers are speaking with their feet: They want security updates and other security interruptions out of their faces, and they won...

Article | 23/07/2008 Buyer beware: ADSL filters

If you've just upgraded from ADSL to ADSL2+ broadband, you may want to check your line filters. Chances are that you're not getting the speed you shou...

Article | 23/07/2008 Planting seeds of sustainability on Facebook

Two Canadian university students hope to plant the seeds of sustainability on Facebook with an application that monitors power consumption and uses pe...

Article | 18/07/2008 Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers?

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced last week that a major bug affected DNS software, which translates human-usable domain names like "pcworld....

Article | 18/07/2008 US Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls

The US Air Force is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support its missions despite wariness about security, a civilian technology official of the s...

Article | 17/07/2008 Online office apps get real

Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presen...

Article | 17/07/2008 Five Web 2.0 dev lessons for enterprise IT

Yahoo's Flickr unit reported yesterday that the latest update to the photo sharing Web site went live with 9 changes made by three of its developers. ...

Article | 9/07/2008 How to mashup without a screwup

Given the short history of mashups in the enterprise, IT departments likely don't entirely understand the technology's role in the business. Organizat...

Article | 8/07/2008 Hacked e-mail accounts used in 419 scam "with a twist"

At first blush it seems like a typical 419 (or Nigerian letter) scam - the standard e-mail directing the intended victim to do certain things that sup...

Article | 8/07/2008 The six commandments of social networking at work

It can be easy to disregard social networking's professional potential if you're only going on what you see on television. Between endlessly replayed ...

Article | 7/07/2008 How to build a blog with WordPress

If blogging is all about self-expression, why do so many blogs look so blah?

Article | 7/07/2008 Silly Internet Traditions: A Concise History

A concise history of silly Internet traditions

Article | 4/07/2008 In-depth: Summary of NBN regulatory submissions

The federal government published this week submissions it had invited from industry players, public interest groups and concerned individuals on regul...

Article | 2/07/2008 Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3

Firefox 3 has been out for two weeks now, so get with the program: It's time to hack it. The newest version of Mozilla's browser has plenty of new fea...

Article | 30/06/2008 How social networking saved New Orleans

If there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans.

Article | 30/06/2008 Greasemonkey scripts to turbocharge your browser

The Internet offers a wealth of excellent tools, information, and entertainment--and it asks very little from us in return. So don't get upset when a ...