Why Facebook, Twitter on Game Consoles Miss The Point

Categories: SciTech| Nov 19, 2009

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's Chatter Joins a Growing Social Media Field

Categories: SciTech| Nov 19, 2009

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

With Chatter, Salesforce Takes a Facebook Approach to Collaboration

Categories: SciTech| Nov 18, 2009

With Chatter, Salesforce Takes a Facebook Approach to Collaboration 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 Adds Enterprise Social Networking

Categories: SciTech| Nov 18, 2009

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

Roddick Expects Injured Knee to Be Ready for Australian Open

Categories: Sports| Nov 18, 2009

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

Unfriend is U.S. dictionary's 2009 word of the year

Categories: Top Stories| Nov 17, 2009

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

Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm now live on Xbox Live

Categories: SciTech| Nov 17, 2009

Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm now live on Xbox Live 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

'Unfriend' is 2009's Word of the Year: Geek Lexicon Goes Pop

Categories: SciTech| Nov 17, 2009

'Unfriend' is 2009's Word of the Year: Geek Lexicon Goes Pop 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

Unfriend Is Word of the Year

Categories: Entertainment| Nov 17, 2009

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

'Unfriend' Chosen as Oxford Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech| Nov 17, 2009

'Unfriend' Chosen as Oxford Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year 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