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- MySpace
- The most popular social networking site on the Web, especially for teenagers and people under 30. Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, MySpace was acquired by...
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- MySpace unveils new cybersafety feature
- Under increasing pressure to deal with the presence of sexual predators and young children on MySpace, the NewsCorp-owned social networking wunkerkind will soon unveil a new safety feature called Sentinel Safe, Reuters reports. Business analysts say the the personal safety of its online users as well as the...
- Tags: MySpace, sex offender, offender, Social networking, Cybersecurity, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Reporter's MySpace code leads NYPD to sex offender
- In an astounding story by Wired News Kevin Poulson, the reporter/hacker details the bust of one Andrew Lubrano, a registered sex offender who did serious time for his offenses, and an active MySpace user who has been propositioning young teens on the social networking site. Poulson found Lubrano by...
- Tags: offender, sex offender, MySpace, Andrew Lubrano
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
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- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Tags: Education, Google Gmail, Sex Offender, Safety Education, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Bush signs online child protection bills
- In addition to the Pro-IP Act, President Bush signed two other Internet-related bills, these related to kiddie porn and child predators. The Protect Our Children Act requires Internet companies to report child pornography and forks over $320 million to the Justice Dept. to fight Internet...
- Tags: Attorney General, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords
- When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- MySpace launches ad platform for small businesses
- MySpace on Monday will unveil a targeted ad platform called MyAds, a beta designed to enable smaller advertisers to use its HyperTargeting technology. HyperTargeting is the MySpace platform used by its larger advertisers. With MyAds, MySpace is trying to tap into smaller advertisers that can be used...
- Tags: Advertisement, Small Business, MySpace, Advertiser, MyAds, HyperTargeting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- YouTube teams with iTunes, Amazon to offer e-commerce feature
- It's Business 101: Don't wait for your customers to come to you. Go to the places where they are. That's why you've seen the launches of music streaming services within MySpace and Google's AdSense program extended into Web-based video games. Now, YouTube has partnered with Amazon and...
- Tags: Team, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Video, Apple iTunes, E-business, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.
- The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.Myspace is the Devilthat has to be the worst idea yet already it has phishing and malware throughout as well as pedophile's you can't even watch a video without antivirus 2009 or xpantivirus infecting your computer now ...
- Tags: Printers, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Hewlett-Packard Co., MySpace
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.
- HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Online, hard to avoid debate
- Tonight's presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC's Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as "an odd mix of debates, speeches, political humor, soundbites and commentary." Hulu is also showing Crawford, a film about the effects of...
- Tags: Debate, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?
- Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?Um, did I miss something......or didn't nearly everyone's stock price hit a 5-year low yesterday?BUY?Steve told me no!Yahoo at this price is two times too high!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comM$FT stock is in the tank too!M$ will be next in line for a bailout.Yahoo should...
- Tags: Linux, Investment, Operating systems, Yahoo! Inc., SHARES DIP, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- 46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks
- According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "46%...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000Is it a hard time now?Of course not,i am always in confident of e-commercial,which leading our life style,I really appreciate ebay's courage in making the changes at the dark before the dawn.RE: eBay doubles down on payments...
- Tags: payment, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
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