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Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?
disgracefulthis is certainly one of the more irresponsible actions on behalf of a corporation in modern times. Why is it that these media centric .com's .. grouping in Google noting some of their more recent activity seem to lack the controls, privacy and humanitarian fibre that their more traditional bricks...
Tags: Government, Blogging, Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Inc.
Discussion threads 2009-10-09
News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage
Blog posts 2009-08-11
Watch what you send, post, tweet about your company; The boss may be watching
It probably goes without saying that you should be careful about what you send in e-mail, post on Facebook or write in a tweet.  It could get you into hot water with the boss or, worse yet, sent straight to the unemployment line. Case in point: the...
Tags: Leak, Proofpoint Inc., Company Information, E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
Blog posts 2009-08-10
Will Facebook Get You Hired or Fired?
Phishing is a common method cyber criminals use to lure individuals into giving up their personal information. Spear phishing is where the criminals target a specific group of users, for example all customers of a particular bank or credit union. Whaling is an even more directed attack at one particular...
Tags: Facebook, Criminal, Attack, Perimeter eSecurity, Whaling, Phishing, Social Networking, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
White papers 2009-08-10
Survey: 71% of IT departments block users from social networking
Survey: 71% of IT departments block users from social networkingBlock it......Most jobs don't require Facebook or Myspace access, so why open it. Myspace especially since it is a huge security risk. Facebook is much safer, but is not really necessary for your job in most cases. People...
Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, social networking, MySpace, IT-departments, network, job, survey
Discussion threads 2009-07-22
Watch that reference you write on LinkedIn and other sites
Watch that reference you write on LinkedIn and other sitesRidiculous !!!People is US are exploiting laws to such an extend that everything is loosing its real purpose....I wonder one day they will sue each other because they r breathing air in each other's neighborhood. How about adding declaimer...
Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Potential employer, firing, LinkedIn
Discussion threads 2009-07-06
News to know: Cisco, Salesforce, iPhone, Seattle P-I, Facebook, Intel
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Cisco launches bid to capture the data center Cisco: Beyond the data center Larry Dignan: Cisco's...
Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
Blog posts 2009-03-17
Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook...
Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England was fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited after she wrote that her job was dull on her Facebook profile. "all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!'" ... "im so totally bord!!!" 16-year-old...
Tags: Firing, Job, Facebook, U.K., Kimberley, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks
Blog posts 2009-02-27
Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain odd
Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain oddWith the exception of ....teleconferencing and HOME GROWN cloud, it is time to get back to the basics. Computers were meant to do three things - take data input, manipulate that data, and then output the results. Forcing them to...
Tags: ROI/TCO, Gartner Inc.
Discussion threads 2009-01-14
News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware
Blog posts 2008-11-24
FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco
There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. ...
Tags: Facebook, Virgin Atlantic, Social Networking, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Oliver Marks
Blog posts 2008-11-02
Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?
Hey teachers...Just stay off the MySpace, OK?Couldn't agree more..Being an IT person in education I have to agree with the School's decision. There is a fine line drawn there and it should remain a separation. I know of teachers in my District that have their students...
Tags: Web 2.0, Social networking, MySpace
Discussion threads 2008-10-23
It's official - my wife likes Ubuntu, too
It's official - my wife likes Ubuntu, tooGreatPeople are finding out that Linux is not the boogie man some ignorant people say it is.Educational softwareTry installing the edubuntu-desktop package. It adds in a bunch of educational programs and games for kids.RE: It's official - my wife likes Ubuntu, tooI've...
Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu
Discussion threads 2008-10-23
Startups: Where's the business technology?
This week brought a bevy of product and company launches courtesy of the DemoFall and TechCrunch 50 conferences and a lot of it looked fun. The problem: You may never hear of some of these companies again. What's a business technology manager to do? Admittedly the question...
Tags: Business Technology, Opsware Inc., Start-up, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-09-10
Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)
As you know from my previous post, it has been an absolute battle to try and get broadband connectivity to my new house in Canterbury. All the other seemingly complicated "hardware based" products like electricity, gas and water supplies have been easy to set up and continue flowing. So why...
Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker
Blog posts 2008-07-11
A Modest Privacy Proposal
A Modest Privacy ProposalOK.For some strange reason, people refuse to realize that the internet is a public place. Maybe because they sit in their bedroom and surf.Maybe instead of all these regulations and bureaucracies, we should just hang signs everywhere that read:Hello! The Internet is a Public Place. Don't do...
Tags: Robots, robot, private property, Public Place, Internet, advertisement
Discussion threads 2008-07-08
What is Enterprise 2.0?
I'll be in Boston for the US Enterprise 2.0 conference next week. I'm looking forward to meeting face to face with a lot of people I converse with via Twitter (I'm @olivermarks on that platform when it's working...) and other digital connections, seeing old friends, and particularly...
Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Tool, Oliver Marks
Blog posts 2008-06-05
Fox Interactive and Google: Is breaking up hard to do?
Fox is reportedly thinking about terminating its deal with Google for search advertising and getting in bed with Microsoft. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting the news based on what appears to be one source, but a potential Google-Fox breakup is plausible. It's also possible that this rumor...
Tags: Fox Interactive Media, Google Inc., TechCrunch, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Breakup, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-02-25
News to know: Windows 7; eBay; Space race; Java
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 and Windows Live to get tighter Ed Bott: Vista virtualization: The bigger picture Via makes way for 64-bit chips Larry Dignan: eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak...
Tags: Larry Dignan, Line Of Business, Java, eBay Inc., Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Cyberthreats, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals
Blog posts 2008-01-24
Business execs snub Facebook
Business execs snub FacebookIf my kids use it....My kids use facebook so how serious can it be as business tool, not much as far as I'm concerned. I'm on linkedin and have about 170 connections. But I've yet to find it a useful tool either. All I see is a...
Tags: Facebook, Plaxo Inc.
Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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