Facebook has announced that it has hired a new chief operating officer to replace the outgoing Owen Van Natta. Starting on 24 March, veteran Google employee Sheryl Sandberg will take on the executive role at the social network.
Google and Facebook have signed up to an alliance, DataPortability, which aims to unify identity and data management across various social-networking platforms.
Upset his company's Web crawlers are being locked out of social networks like Facebook, the CEO of Google is again pressing for social networks to open up for the good of the consumer.
Facebook's lack of involvement in Google's new OpenSocial developer initiative has left it out in the cold while big competitors like MySpace, Bebo and Friendster jump onboard.
Google has started adding real-time results to its internet search engine, channelling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
The team at Brisbane-based Social Horizon has come up with aMAP.to, which they believe is the world's first service that shortens Google Maps URLs down to something manageable.
Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.
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Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with AdventNet's CEO Sridhar Vembu to find out about Zoho's office productivity suite and how the CEO plans to compete against Microsoft and Google. Farber and Needleman then analyse the company's business model and determine Zoho's chance for success in the emerging Web 2.0 office software market.
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, panelists discuss benefits that huge companies like Google and Facebook could get from embracing open source, such as third-party developers integrating their products into new application versions and easier connectivity with emerging technologies. Panelists include Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and a member of the CNET Blog Network.
With excellent web browsing, email and access to apps, the HTC Hero is one of the few mobiles to truly challenge the iPhone this year.
Awkward design choices spoil an otherwise excellent phone for people who rate messaging features over calling or web browsing.
Sporting a funky, small design and social networking features this phone is a great choice for both the young and young at heart.
The Preston has the look of a better handset, but poor call quality spoils an otherwise well-performing budget-priced touchscreen phone.
With the BlackBerry Curve 8520, RIM has done a good job of creating an affordable phone with all the right features, although you might miss 3G connectivity. Just make sure you get it in black.
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