New social networking tech can be used to solve down-to-earth human needs, by enlisting millions of Americans in service to the country. This involves a new kind of person-to-person public/private partnership which need not be very formal, but might involve ...Read More
Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point. These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn't spawn from ...Read More
Salesforce.com (CRM) Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about trying to piggyback on other companies' momentum. On Nov. 18, he did it again through the introduction of a business collaboration tool that takes a page from the playbooks ...Read More
Salesforce.com today announced Salesforce Chatter, an application that provides a social network for enterprise businesses. Salesforce Chatter incorporates social networking and real-time connection features as well as integrates Facebook and Twitter status updates, making it unique from other enterprise collaboration ...Read More
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff jokes about having 5,000 of his closest friends on Facebook. As result, he says, he knows more about strangers than his employees. Wednesday, at the company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce Chatter, ...Read More
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Andy Roddick, the former No. 1tennis player who pulled out of next week’s ATP World TourFinals in London with a knee injury, is confident he’ll berecovered for the start of the new season. “I am at about ...Read More
What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year Oxford University Press tracks ...Read More
Xbox Live Update: Microsoft rolls out fall update for Xbox 360's online service; Gyromancer, Diner Dash head to XBLA; GRID now a GOD.
Nearly a year ago to the day, Microsoft reinvented Xbox Live with a complete visual overhaul and introduction ...Read More
Tech culture has come a long way from its widely-lambasted formative years of LAN parties, red Doritos and Mountain Dew to today, when the New Oxford Dictionary ekes our vocab and ratifies it. "Unfriend," a term used to describe deleting ...Read More
NEW YORK (Nov. 17) -- What word sums up 2009? How about "unfriend"? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each ...Read More
Proving that social networking is a huge cultural force, the New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen 'unfriend' as its 2009 Word of the Year (WOTY). To unfriend means to remove someone from your friend list on a social network like ...Read More
NEW YORK - What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site such as Facebook. Each year Oxford ...Read More
For the moment, forget Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Forget about the million users booted from Xbox Live for modding their devices. Microsoft is on track to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and Zune video into its Xbox Live platform on ...Read More
A year ago today, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, with the Ad Council, launched a big campaign to welcome new veterans home and help 'em find resources for the transition to civilian life at Community of Veterans. ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Americans are spending more time watching television, as well as playing on computers and chatting on social networking sites.
The Nielsen Company said on Tuesday that U.S. television viewing reached an all time high in the 2008-09 ...Read More
NEW YORK - The social networking Web site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially stealing the e-mail addresses of some 60 million Internet users, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. Cuomo ...Read More
Games company Electronic Arts (ERTS) agreed on Nov. 9 to pay $400 million for a company whose products include virtual hot dogs, bazookas, and turnips. Wacky? Maybe, but the deal by EA, based in Redwood City, Calif., to buy London-based ...Read More
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Electronic Arts Inc., the world’ssecond largest video-game publisher, will acquire Playfish Inc.,a maker of games played on Facebook’s Web Site, for $400 millionin a bet that social networking will be a platform for growth. Electronic Arts is ...Read More
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozywitnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, andjoined German families using pickaxes to tear down the concreteslabs, he said in a post on his Facebook Internet page. Sarkozy, who was ...Read More
Americans have not become more isolated thanks to the advent of mobile phones and the internet - it's just that they've mislaid a third of their closest friends in the last few years. A study by the Pew Internet and American ...Read More
The new Google Dashboard addresses concerns that users have regarding just how much Google knows about them. Providing a resource like the Google Dashboard that presents all associated information in one place may actually create more privacy and security issues ...Read More
