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Article | 25/11/2010 Google Wave may become an Apache project
Some of the developers behind Google Wave have submitted <a href="http://www.waveprotocol.org/">their software</a> to the Apache Software Foundation f...
Article | 25/11/2010 Twitter tips: Enabling mobile notifications; vital shortcuts
When you're on a business trip, running errands or on vacation, you probably don't have the same access to a computer as you do during the workday. Bu...
Article | 25/11/2010 Employees armed with Facebook, smartphones among biggest company boosters
Employees are more likely to advocate for their companies if they're optimistic about technology, though IT pros themselves aren't especially big corp...
Article | 25/11/2010 News service proposed by Twitter co-founder
A news organization with 175 million reporters around the world? Not quite. But the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, wants to harness the membership ...
Article | 26/11/2010 NHS link to Facebook raises privacy concerns
The U.K.'s National Health Service plans to make clearer the privacy policy of its Choices health information Web site, which shares browsing informat...
Article | 25/11/2010 Will videoconferencing replace the telephone?
In a famous exhibit at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, AT&T Bell Labs demonstrated the Picturephone Mod 1, a small, oval device with a camera ...
Article | 25/11/2010 Google Wave gets a second life from Apache
Rumors of the death of Google Wave are perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Google may have pulled the plug on the short-lived Google Wave, but the concept l...
Article | 25/11/2010 Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash
Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility co...
Article | 25/11/2010 Microsoft nabs OpenStreetMap founder
As part of an initiative to leverage the OpenStreetMap project for its own Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired OSM founder Steve Coast, the company announc...
Article | 24/11/2010 Is bit.ly the next big content aggregator?
Bit.ly bundle, a tool which lets users cluster shortened URLs into a single one and place them into a directory where visitors can read descriptions a...
Article | 24/11/2010 Open-source social network Diaspora goes live
Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, <a href="http://joindiaspora.com/">has cracked open its doors</a> for bu...
Article | 23/11/2010 Does Google favor its own sites in search results?
Google appears to be backing away from a pledge that its search engine delivers unbiased results following new research that indicates the company giv...
Article | 19/11/2010 Microsoft Lync: The pros and cons for enterprises
Lync, the next generation of Microsoft's Office Communications Server software, was unveiled yesterday in New York City, complete with a surprise appe...
Article | 20/11/2010 How to move from a physical to virtual infrastructure
After finally getting the go-ahead to proceed with a project to virtualize a small business infrastructure, it may seem that the hard part is actually...
Article | 19/11/2010 Businesses have 'yet to take advantage of social media data'
Businesses are still cautious about investing in social media analytics, despite the hype around social media and the role it plays and will increasin...