• Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

  By Tim Greene | 09 February, 2012 03:29

  European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

• Wednesday Grok: iPhone on top but Android owns the noobs

  By Andrew Birmingham | 08 February, 2012 09:55

  The Great Game for philosophical hegemony in this post-historical epoch continues to unfurl. Yes, that's right — smartphone market share figures for Apple and Android have been updated. It appears that in the last quarter the natural order was restored, with iPhone dominating US sales again, according to one survey, and dominating worldwide shipments, according to another.

• Facebook site, mobile app hit by slowdown

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 February, 2012 05:47

  Facebook users today are complaining that the social network and its mobile app are running very slowly.

• Students plan to press Irish data commissioner on Facebook

  By Jeremy Kirk | 08 February, 2012 03:35

  A group of students concerned over Facebook's privacy practices plans to continue to press the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) for action following a meeting on Monday in Vienna with representatives of the social networking site.

• 5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world

  By Logan Kugler | 08 February, 2012 02:48

  With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on Facebook -- posts, photos, comments, likes and so on -- in a handy timeline format to anyone with access to your profile, which may include friends of friends, colleagues, executives at your company, a potential future boss ... well, you get the idea.

• Should I protect my tweets?

  By Phil Shapiro | 23 February, 2011 09:14

  When I signed up for a Twitter account in the summer of 2009 I spent some time thinking about whether or not I should protect my tweets. As a novice Twitter user, I had to decide whether the benefits of protecting my tweets outweighed the drawbacks. Looking back, I do not regret my decision to protect my tweets, and I'll tell you why.

• Facebook social inbox: What you need to know about messages

  By Kristin Burnham | 12 January, 2011 10:25

  Back in November 2010, Facebook announced plans for a "social inbox" -- a space that would serve as a hub for all communications that people use online or via mobile phones, ranging from text messages and chat messages to e-mail messages, too.

• Facebook Ads secrets from an insider

  By Elsa Wenzel | 16 September, 2010 15:05

  Many people log on to Facebook primarily for fun, but businesses are increasingly turning to the social networking site as an advertising gold mine. By placing ads on Facebook, you can zero in on a select portion of some half a billion users according to their interests and demographics.

• How to choose who sees your photos on Facebook

  By Chris Byers | 18 August, 2010 03:17

  QUESTION: I signed up for a Facebook account and uploaded some photos to my profile. I was soon contacted out of the blue by someone I didn't want to hear from and who I didn't know could see my photos and profile. I've been told that I should stop using Facebook, but will I still be able to see my photos if I cancel my account, and how can I make sure no one else can see them?

• Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

  A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

  By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

• How to prepare your business for Google+

  By Angela West | 24 September, 2011 23:59

  Google+ just opened its doors to the world by enabling open signups and moving to the beta, testing phase. The nascent social network is still thin on features and ways for businesses to properly use it, but its minimalist approach has gained Google+ millions of users in a very short period.

• Bad new world - Cyber risk and the future of the US

  By Michael Assante | 23 September, 2011 05:21

  In September 2007, in a remote laboratory in Idaho, researchers began to show that that picture had begun to change, dramatically and irreversibly. Dubbed "Aurora," the researchers' project demonstrated the ability of a cyber hacker to destroy physical equipment--in this case a generator used to create electricity for the power grid.

• Video chatting for newbies

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 07 August, 2011 10:45

  Video chat is all the rage these days, thanks to new services such as Google+ Hangouts and Skype/Facebook integrated video chat. Video chatting is a great way to stay in touch with family and friends--seeing loved ones' faces on a computer screen is almost like actually being there.

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