Your college roommate is on Facebook. So are your cousins and colleagues and friends. But guess who else may find Facebook a great way to stay in touch? Some people in Sicily who know a few things about networking. Authorities are investigating groups devoted to Mafiosi.
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A developer's-eye view of smartphone platforms
TMCnet – 2 hours ago (InfoWorld Daily Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Smartphone programming is booming. The little leash that lets your boss reach out and ruin your time off is turning into a platform of seemingly infinite possibilities. Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1 Apple Insider The iPhone 3G could make mobile management legit, if only… Computerworld InfoWorld – Bloomberg – MacApper – Examiner.com all 19 news articles Langue : Français |
European companies say the social-networking tool is a time waster. “Just had a cup of our Guatemala Casi Cielo … It means ‘almost heaven’ in Spanish,” a Starbucks manager wrote in a recent Twitter post.
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A developer's eye view of smartphone platforms
InfoWorld – 13 hours ago As smartphones evolve into serious computers, the worlds of iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian, Palm, and Windows Mobile offer developers new possibilities. The iPhone 3G could make mobile management legit, if only… Computerworld ANDTEK to present iPhone World Newmobilecomputing.com – PC World Canada all 6 news articles |
Girls in Tech is a social outreach organization founded in 2007 by Adriana Gascoigne, communications director of social network Hi5. GIT’s mission is to enhance the careers of tech sector women with workshops, lectures, networking functions, and recruitment events in each of its chapter cities.
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Report: Apple to Gain 40 Percent of the Global Smartphone Market …
TMCnet – 5 hours ago By Narayan Bhat iPhone (News – Alert) maker Apple will knock out Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia from the top spot of smartphone sellers and take over nearly 40 percent of the global handset market over the next four years, says a report from … A developer's eye view of smartphone platforms InfoWorld The iPhone 3G could make mobile management legit, if only… Computerworld Smartphone Thoughts – PC World Canada – Cnet Asia all 7 news articles Langue : Français |
Will Windows 7 achieve the respect that Vista failed to win? It’s telling that one element of Windows 7 Microsoft isn’t especially trumpeting (amidst the cloud of self-congratulation about how the new OS is slicker, faster and essentially the Barack Obama of networking) is its gaming clout.
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Judge allows Web streaming in RIAA case
Computerworld – 1 hour ago By Jaikumar Vijayan January 19, 2009 (Computerworld) Internet users will have the unusual opportunity on Thursday to view a federal-court hearing in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against a Boston … RIAA protests webcasting of Tenenbaum legal hearing ZDNet Harvard to RIAA: Help us distribute TV feed p2pnet.net Ars Technica – ReadWriteWeb – CD Freaks.com – TorrentFreak all 7 news articles |
An anonymous reader writes “Microblogs, targeted advertising, social news, online video, streaming music, and enterprise social networking are among the technologies that will probably fail in 2009, according to a new report from Internet Evolution. The report cites revenue figures, failed or non-existent business models, and an overabundance of ‘me-too’ start-ups, combined with the current recession, as reasons the aforementioned technologies might not survive the year. ‘Whereas the past couple of years have been defined by overcrowding and overfunding in the Web 2.0 space, and an onslaught of startups with no purpose or plan to make money, this recessionary year is likely to see more due diligence on the part of VCs, allowing strong companies and technologies to emerge from the smoldering pile of dead ones.'”
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narramissic writes “Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn’t a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine ‘returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests’ while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are ‘almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.’ Gaskin’s question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?”
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