Facebook Chat Pulls the Plug on IE6
Facebook Chat is pulling the plug on Internet Explorer 6. We had been hearing about disapproval for IE6 for a while now, but this is a major setback. Facebook has announced that the new…
New German Law to Stop Employers from Using Facebook in Hiring
Social media has brought a lot of change, positive and negative, in our lives. The biggest positive is is definitely the added connectivity to our friends, especially those who live faraway. Among the negatives…
Dell Trumps HP in 3PAR Bidding Wars
It looks like Dell may win out on the clash with HP over the 3PAR acquisition. After HP outbid Dell for 3PAR, Dell has returned with a higher offer. Dell has revised its merger…
Hyper-local Meets Local Business: MerchantCircle, Yelp and Facebook Places
By Kyt Dotson
Today, is launching a location-based publishing platform to go along with its hyper-local business directory. This move is designed to put MerchantCircle on the map with competitors like AOL’s local content network Patch,…
Data Means Data Protection – FalconStor Software Announces Cloud Storage Server Accelerator for VMware
By John Furrier
Backup and recovery has been around for a long time and is critical for business to secure their data. What’s disruptive is the cloud. Legacy solutions often have the wrong “process” for backup and…
Personal Security Issues and Social Media
Posting your location on social media sites when you are away from home can be an invitation to home robbery. This is not just paranoid imagining -- it has happened. Nothing prevents the local…
World’s First DivX HD Certification Comes to Samsung Galaxy S Android Phone
By Kyt Dotson
High quality DivX HD format movies are coming to the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone. This beautiful Android phone will be the first mobile capable of playing 720p resolution DivX HD movies on both…
Is It Too Soon for Facebook Places, and Where Are the Consumers’ Intrests?
It’s barely been a week since Facebook Places launched, and the buzz has not slowed around its business potential, marketing prowess and startup-squashing powers. But a Wall Street Journal article today reminds us that…
Google Looses Gamer Genius Mark Deloura. Bad Timing.
The Google Gaming scene is a happening one. But this time, we receive not so good news from this front. With the launch of Google Chrome Web Store right around the corner, Mark Deloura…
Flurry Of Updates to Google Voice and Gmail
By Kyt Dotson
Google Voice and Gmail may be getting hitched, allowing users to make phone calls via Google Voice through the GTalk IM interface or directly from their mail in-box. According to the CNET article, “…Google…