• Is your social network built enterprise tough?

  By Sriram Chakravarthy, VP, products and engineering, social computing, TIBCO | 07 May, 2013 20:32

  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 network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model.

• How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  By Brandon Butler | 06 May, 2013 11:14

  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.

• Facebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access

  By Ellen Messmer | 02 May, 2013 18:33

  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 their password.

• Is Twitter broken?

  By Brandon Butler | 01 May, 2013 20:57

  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 network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

• EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

  By Tim Greene | 30 April, 2013 22:06

  Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

• The ABCs of VoIP

  By Sheena Finnegan, Cisco Presales Engineer, CDW | 30 September, 2010 08:17

  Given the importance of telephone systems, refreshing the technology can be daunting. However, for small and midsized businesses who consider upgrading from a PBX to VoIP, the benefits are clear and, with proper planning, the implementation is not very frightening. Consider these three steps:

• Opinion: How do you manage your social networks?

  By Mark Gibbs | 28 January, 2013 15:18

  I recently decided, somewhat randomly, to experiment a bit more with social networking. I was on LinkedIn and at some point the service asked me if it could access my Gmail contact list.

• Online video a must-have for these four businesses

  By Linda Melone | 23 January, 2013 12:07

  Adding video to the company website can set retailers and other businesses apart from the competition -- and ultimately boost the bottom line.

• Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

  By Mark Gibbs | 20 November, 2012 15:44

  Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.

• Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 January, 2011 23:25

  Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia that has become an Internet juggernaut by spreading access to information with a model that lets anyone edit its articles.

• 5 open source VoIP softphones to watch

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 November, 2009 14:16

  The steady rise in people using IP telephony to communicate -- for personal and business reasons -- has led to the development of a number of different VoIP "softphones" that can be used on a PC or notebook.

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