LinkedIn is down, then up, then down again Wednesday morning
LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.
View ArticleBusinesses need to explore Firefox, Chrome's WebRTC to bolster services and...
Businesses need to study up now on WebRTC - the browser-based voice and video support included in the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome but that seems destined for all browsers - if they want to...
View ArticleCautionary tale from a Twitter 'share-cropper'
Twit Cleaner is a popular web app that has been used by hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to clear deadwood from their accounts.
View ArticleHow to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off
As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media investments, to...
View ArticleThe next big thing on Twitter: #TwitterChats
Atul Jha likes to stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest in the tech world; after all, that's part of his job as a consultant and technology evangelist for CSS Corp., which is co-headquartered in...
View ArticleFacebook and Minnovation
Facebook's big announcement was a big "so what?" and minimal innovation at its finest
View ArticleReport: Facebook and Twitter don’t change the American political status quo
Social media has yet to show its supposed promise as a great leveler of American democracy, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, which found that...
View Article25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.
View ArticleEnterasys boosts productivity with Microsoft SharePoint alternative
Enterasys Networks, the Salem, N.H., maker of networking and security products, found coordinating collaboration among staff, suppliers and partners was cumbersome using Microsoft's SharePoint so went...
View ArticleIs Twitter broken?
Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing...
View ArticleFacebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access
Facebook Thursday said it’s making available globally a feature called "Trusted Contacts" that lets users select three to five friends who can help users recover account access such as if they forget...
View ArticleHow Facebook aims to reinvent hardware
Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.
View ArticleIs your social network built enterprise tough?
You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social...
View Article10 surprising things from my 20 years with Network World
Yep, I've been writing for Network World for 20 years and a lot has happened in that time ... here are 10 of the most surprising
View ArticleZynga fires 18 per cent of workforce, vows refocus on mobility
Social gaming publisher Zynga announced Monday that it will lay off 18% of its total workforce -- more than 500 employees -- in an effort to reduce staff costs and focus on the mobile sector.
View ArticleOne year in, Yammer grows in importance to Microsoft
For a product once described as Twitter with a business model, Yammer is becoming more nuanced, morphing into an important feature set that will cross over among Microsoft applications. Just as...
View ArticleTelecommuting from paradise
Nine years ago, Francie Tanner was working at a technology consulting company in Dallas when she received an email that began, "Dear Sir or Madam, I manage a bank in the country of Anguilla..."
View ArticleSocial media sends Ballmer off with a bang
The Internet reacted to the news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to retire within 12 months as might have been expected – with a flurry of jeers, opprobrium and the occasional heartfelt farewell.
View ArticleReddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail
Microsoft's Outlook.com engineers and product managers, a little more than a year since the revamped messaging service launched, took to Reddit Thursday to field questions on topics that ranged from...
View ArticleInternet.org looks to 'Facebook for Every Phone'
The companies behind Internet.org, the organization formed by Facebook, Qualcomm and several others to bring the Internet to areas that still don't have it, released a document (PDF) yesterday...
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