It's no secret that enterprise collaboration is on the rise: Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2015, 40 percent of large businesses will have the equivalent of a corporate Facebook network. That prevalence, coupled with the many ...
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As presidential election day unfolded on Tuesday,people spent time posting photos of long lines at polling places,tweeting about casting a vote and commenting on a viral video of a malfunctioning voting machine. Obama victory tweet ...
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Students at a military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas. Students and researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have tackled ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft will lay out the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email server at a conference this week devoted to the product. On Monday, the company focused on security, ...
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Amazon.com launched a free online tool that will help schools and businesses centrally control and distribute content on Kindle devices to their students and staff, it said Wednesday. The new service, called Whispercast for Kindle, can ...
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Apple's much-maligned iPhone exclusivity agreement with AT&T Mobility, started in 2007 but now ended, is once again the target of a class-action suit. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...
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Network World - Cisco CEO John Chambers says he may retire in two to four years and named several executives who could succeed him, according to Bloomberg. There are as many as 10 candidates to assumed leadership of Cisco when Chambers ...
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One of the great things about developing for the Web is the low barrier to entry. Many tutorials are available online, and you can learn about CSS and HTML from any website just by inspecting its code in any modern Web browser. Best of all, ...
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CIO-Regardless of the security expertise and resources you apply to securing your assets,you are unlikely to achieve much unless you focus on the most vulnerable element of your organization:your employees. "Computers have become much ...
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Twitter launched an interactive map to shine a spotlight on which of the presidential candidates' tweets gain the most traction in different areas of the country. As election day nears, President Barack Obama and his Republican ...
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Infoworld - After two years and 18 releases, Google this week took the beta label off mod_pagespeed, its Web page speed technology. Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module in use at more than 120,000 sites, Joshua Marantz and Ilya ...
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Having trouble sleeping? Gaining a bit of weight? Your smartphone or computer might be to blame. Actually, the problem is more likely about your obsession with your laptop and devices than the devices themselves. A new study from ...
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IDG News Service - U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks. The ...
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The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries. Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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