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Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages. Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360 is a chat service that will leverage the Kinect's camera, which trac...
Google has begun cleaning up its recently launched Google+ service, and in doing so, it's deleted some legitimate users' accounts. Those with dumped accounts include a user calling himself "Dylan M," who has the Twitter handle @thomasmonopoly, as well as Limor Fried, A.K.A. "Ladyada." Dylan M. was a...
Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is soaring. Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million visitors in just 21 days. Meanwhile, Google is reported to be preparing to add a social gaming feature to the Google+ service in order to attract even more s...
The world's largest online search engine recently revealed its Google News Badge feature, a system through which readers can earn virtual badges based on their search and reading histories in the U.S. version of Google News. Someone searching for all the latest news on the NFL lockouts, for example...
Weeks after Google launched Google+, rumors have begun making the rounds that Microsoft is working on its own social networking platform. The chatter started with an image posted on the Web. It appeared to depict a landing page for a service called "Tulalip." A message on the page read "With Tulalip...
Last week, Facebook launched its video chat. Saying this was going to be an "awesome" announcement and then showcasing basic video chat and group text chat was, and I'm being kind, disappointing. Still, Facebook does have something amazing here -- I just don't think it's worked out yet. But I do thi...
As Facebook announced on Wednesday that its subscribers will be able to launch video chats from its site using Skype technology, one sentence -- written by Philip Su, an engineer on Facebook's video calling team -- stood out in particular. "Video chat has been around for years now, but it's still no...
As we round the bend into the second half of 2011, enterprises face a triple threat on the IT security front. These threats won't be easily addressed merely by updating anti-virus programs. Some attacks will be capable of reaching even the security-minded users. Here are three main threats that will...
There was much speculation leading up to Facebook's product rollout announcement on Wednesday -- and for once, it was right on the money. Facebook announced it will be integrating the popular video chat service Skype into its social network, with the rollout taking place over the next several weeks....
Who's the most popular person on Google's spanking new social networking site? Britney? Lady Gaga? Larry or Sergey? Nope, it's Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He has racked up a whopping 29,543 followers on Google+ as of Tuesday, beating out Google cofounders Larry Page -- who came in second with 19,8...
Shortly after launching the beta of its Google+ social network last week, Google slammed the shutters down. Like many new Google offerings, Google+ is, for the time being, accessible only by invitation. But after distributing invites rather liberally for a day or so, Google pulled back, citing "insa...
Fresh off failure from its first social network attempt, Google decided it'd give the tech trend another shot and launched Google+, the company's hope for rivaling networking leaders Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. I was lucky enough to be able to give Google+ a trial run and play around with the si...
Not even 24 hours had passed following Google's sneak preview of its new social networking initiative -- Google+ -- before the grumbling began. Briefly, one of the key features of the service, which is still in field-test mode, is +Circles, which allows users to group people into different classes o...
Google took a second stab at social networking Tuesday with the launch of Google+, a program designed to interactively connect users and challenge worldwide social networking king Facebook. The search engine giant failed with its first attempt at an online social network, last year's Google Buzz, wh...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt foresees more troublesome days ahead between the search engine giant and the governments of the world. Censorship is on the rise around the globe, he said Monday, at a Dublin summit on militant violence. It will step up considerably in the wake of the "Arab Spr...
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