Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage …
A productivity problem of Olympic proportions
As athletes from 205 nations participate in over 300 events during the Olympic Games in London, die-hard fans will be …
Google+ use skyrockets: report
Social network Google+, which turned a year old at the end of June, has seen its user base take a dramatic jump …
3 steps to dodge the DDoS bullet
It is an all-too-common headline: Prominent website brought down by attackers. The backstory to this growing threat to business is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
Kaspersky Lab and Seculert discover new cyber espionage campaign targeting the Middle East
Kaspersky Lab researchers today announced the results of a joint-investigation with Seculert, an advanced threat detection company, regarding “Madi,” an …
Internet2 doubles down on big-science mission
Internet2 is refocusing on providing a high-capacity network for pushing the boundaries of science and technology, which could help to …
Informed management
There is nothing really new about information lifecycle management (ILM). In the simplest terms, it is the work of organisations …
Yahoo picks Google's Marissa Mayer as CEO
Yahoo has picked Google’s Marissa Mayer as its new CEO, replacing Scott Thompson, the former PayPal president who left the …
Yahoo fixes password-pilfering bug
Yahoo on Friday said it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one …
Job ad indicates Apple using Oracle, IBM servers in North Carolina data centre
Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Maiden, North Carolina, …
A third of consumers' digital content will be in the cloud by 2016: Gartner
The desire to share content and to access it on multiple devices will motivate consumers to start storing a third …
Microsoft buys Yammer
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for US$1.2 billion in cash, …
Strong growth in enterprise social software spending: IDC
Demand for enterprise social software will grow strongly in the coming years, as more organisations implement the products to improve …
PayPal to pay security researchers for reported vulnerabilities
Payment services provider PayPal will reward security researchers who discover vulnerabilities in its website with money, if they report their …
Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social
Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications …
The constant creative
Abdalla Mustafa has been working his way up the career ranks at Emitac Distribution since 2004. “I started as business …
Google+ looks poised to roll out social ads
Google may soon bring business-to-business “social ads” to its Google+ social networking platform, according to a recent job listing for a product …
Salesforce.com gets access to Twitter's messages feed
Salesforce.com announced yesterday a deal with Twitter that will give the enterprise cloud computing company access to Twitter’s “firehose” feed of public …
Apple sets OS X Mountain Lion release for July
Apple said today that it would ship OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion, next month, for $19.99, a 33% price …
Nokia 808 PureView now available across all retail stores
Nokia has announced the local availability of the Nokia 808 PureView, the first smartphone in the world with a 41 …