IDG News Service - The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on theTop500, ...
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More than half of the world's top brands now view Instagram as a major part of their social strategy. Instagram has graduated from a'fun new social network'to an integral component of a brand's social strategy,according to Simply ...
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Facebook has been carrying out trials with local businesses, exchanging free Wi-Fi for check-ins on the social network. The project is called Social Wi-Fi and sees Facebook offer a small number of firms routers and free Wi-Fi if they ...
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As many anticipate the rush of sales that are associated with Black Friday, American Express continues to promote local commerce with Small Business Saturday. As an online marketing resource, Dynamix7.com expands on the advantages of this ...
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McAfee Data Protection has pledged to invest heavily in social engineering and so-called 'wetware' (meaning human-focused) technologies in order to protect users from a continual increase in social network-based spoofing and false link ...
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Joanna Shields has resigned from her role as European boss of Facebook to become chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO). Joanna Shields will join as the chief executive of TCIO in January 2013. The government ...
IDG News Service-Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the seven petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows,Facebook needs to find cheaper,less power-hungry ...
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Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
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Online games developer Zynga, the minds behind addictive Facebook-driven titles FarmVille and CityVille, has acknowledged it faces tough times ahead as its annual earnings report rolls around. With the San Francisco-based company's shares ...
In the 2012 presidential campaign,Twitter has become the new spin room. The popular social network stepped up to its new role during Wednesday night's debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Twitter counted ...
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Facebook has passed one billion monthly users, the company has announced. "This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the ...
Facebook has acknowledged the perceived difficulties it is having monetising its mobile platform,but has claimed that it benefits advertisers more than any of its other channels. Matt Trainer,manager Facebook PMD(Preffered Marketing ...
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In large technology departments,dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement.Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms,while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything.IT and legal ...
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Tibco plans to ship in November an upgrade to its Tibbr enterprise social networking suite that will open up the product's social activity to enterprise and commercial developers via an API. The Enterprise Social Graph API and its toolset ...
Facebook has rejected claims that private direct messages sent between users of the social network were appearing publicly on the recently-introduced timeline feature. According to reports in France,private messages sent between 2007 and ...
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