If you’ve ever found yourself scrabbling back through your BlackBerry inbox for the address of someone you know for a fact you emailed once in 2008, then the newly-launched Xobni for BlackBerry may be just what you need.
(Times of Oman Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) AUSTIN: Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties.
Let’s say you’d constituted a drinking game for the aftermath of Tuesday’s unveiling of Google Buzz, the odd new mishmash of status messages, geolocation, and social-media aggregation: Take a drink every time some pundit says Google is trying to “kill” Facebook, Twitter, or any number of the “geo” start-ups out there.
The Sony Ericsson Aspen is a slab QWERTY messaging phone with a green identity and a range of business and social networking functions.
Social media is increasingly becoming fertile ground for hackers to attack companies with spam and malware, according to a report released Monday by a security firm.
According to a Sophos survey of nearly 500 companies worldwide, the number of firms that reported attacks through social media increased by 70 percent compared with the year before.
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According to Sophos, 60 percent of businesses consider Facebook the riskiest social networking site, underscoring a new level of wariness for social networks at a time when a researcher from Kaspersky Lab says compromised accounts for Twitter and other sites can go for big bucks in the cyber-underworld.
Some of you who have been basking in the beauty of your new Nexus One Googlephone may not have tried out all of its delightful features.
Google’s logged 87.8 billion searches in December 2009, or 66.8 percent of the more than 131 billion searches conducted worldwide. Google hopes to grow its search and ad dominance by focusing on a convergence of mobile search, advertising and applications, including location-based technologies with a heavy dose of social networking.
CHIN STROKERS at Gartner claim consumers will spend $6.2 billion this year in mobile applications stores.
Gartner said that games will prove to be popular throughout the year, and it expects to see as many as 21.6 billion apps downloaded by 2013.
It’s an increasingly mobile world and Lotus is going along for the ride.
Lotus is expanding the range of software the company offers for smartphones, unveiling at Lotusphere Monday a deeper relationship with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NSDQ:RIMM) and disclosing plans to develop a version of its Lotus Notes Traveler software for the Android operating [...]
