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Users of Google's location-aware mobile software can now track their whereabouts over time and receive alerts when contacts are nearby, thanks to two features added to the software on Tuesday. The free application, Google Latitude, introduced earlier this year for a variety of cellphones, was origin...
Cisco has introduced new technologies to its collaboration platform -- a product portfolio that encompasses its telepresence, unified communications and WebEx solutions. Among the additions are new hosted email offerings and integration with enterprise social software. The enhancements leverage real...
The Android mobile operating system is graduating soon to 2.0 status, and Google gave it a pretty nice present to celebrate: a free turn-by-turn navigation app called "Google Maps Navigation." It'll run on Android 2.0 phones with GPS, and it'll use the phone's cellular Internet connection to get liv...
A tweet and a status update tell Facebook's story after a week of very unsociable social media slip-ups for Mark Zuckerberg's company. The tweet: "Dear Facebook: Stop sucking, you're making Twitter look reliable." The status update: "[Name withheld] knows FB has its downside, but I just got friended...
Social networking continues to play an important part of our cultural growth, offering an accessible outlet for expression and a means to explore greater social interactions within a broader community. These platforms allow both anonymous and open communications with the world, giving us a voice an...
For Google, the recent effort to mix social media with traditional search results is all about relevance -- thus its efforts such as Google Social Search, which the company rolled out in experimental form late Monday. However, can the results really be that effective if they don't include the full p...
Facebook has tweaked its home page once again -- this time offering users two different feeds: The News Feed features updates ranked according to what Facebook determines to be the most enjoyable or important content posted by a user's friends. The Live Feed, which consists of all of the real-time ...
There's a perfect storm building in the technology world, and as we know, that world keeps spilling over into that other world -- you know, the one where real people live. This storm will manifest itself in the media, of course, thanks to the forces driving its increasing wind speeds: The rise of so...
According to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that's Dengate Thrush's organization...
I should have known this wouldn't be your usual horror movie when I overheard the guy in line behind me say he'd already seen it. I turned around. "Is it really that scary?" I asked. "Oh yeah," he smiled. "Scarier than 'Blair Witch?'" "Oh yeah." Another smile, accompanied by a look that said, if you...
On Sept. 19, a Saturday -- by all rights a day when normal people do their chores and pay attention to their families -- I noticed a spike in my Twitter following. In one day, more than 100 new followers jumped on my bandwagon, bringing the total number up to somewhere north of 400. Now, admittedl...
Facebook now has some new "friends:" the United States Secret Service, thanks to a startling weekend poll appearing on the world's largest social network that asked the question, "Should Obama be killed?" The poll provided four possible answers: "Yes," "No," "Maybe," and "Yes if he cuts my healthcar...
Those who cannot remember to report news on social media ... are condemned to retweet it. Yeah, I know; somewhere in heaven, George Santayana is throwing his "World's Greatest Philosopher" coffee cup at the wall, cursing yet another mangling of his famous saying about those who ignore history. But i...
It may not have qualified as true breaking news, but the new media and digital technologies showed once again Monday how they are breaking traditional news rules, thanks to a spur-of-the-moment post on Twitter from an ABC News anchor involving President Barack Obama. ABC "Nightline" anchor Terry Mor...
The world's largest social network -- stuffed to the brim with 250 million members -- is checking itself out in the mirror, wondering how it would look in a slimmed-down version. However, it may also be putting on some weight by adding a feature that's popular with a certain much-hyped short messagi...
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