Monthly Archives: December 2009
10 Lessons Learned from Climate Scientists’ Stolen E-Mails
As the United Nation's Climate Change Conference, or COP 15, in Copenhagen, Denmark, gets under way this week, the summit has been muddied a...
Google Positions Living Stories as Olive Branch to Publishers
Google Dec. 8 teamed with The New York Times and the Washington Post on Living Stories, an experimental news platform that streamlines news content...
Google’s Living Stories in Pictures, Video
Earlier today, I wrote about Google's Living Stories, the experimental new news platform the search engine created with the help of the New York...
House Passes Data Accountability Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Dec. 8 requiring data brokers to establish procedures to verify the accuracy of information that identifies individuals...
Google Groups Launches for Google Apps Enterprise Users
Google Dec. 9 began allowing its Google Apps Premier and Education Edition to use Google Groups, the company's consumer application for creating discussion forums...
Cisco, BT Team Up for Hosted UC Services
Cisco Systems and British Telecom are creating a cloud-based service to offer businesses hosted unified communications services.The goal of the partnership, announced Dec. 9,...
Google Goggles Breathes New Life into Android Phone Pics
Google Goggles Breathes New Life into Android Phone Pics
by Clint Boulton
Google Goggles
Goggles is Google's first foray into computer vision technology, allowing users to essentially...
Cloud Vendors Take Aim at Federal IT Needs in ‘Shoot Out’
WASHINGTON-As the IT industry braces for the emerging cloud computing wave, no other sector is as well-suited to operating in the cloud as the...
Facebook Improves Privacy, Security Controls to Protect Users
Facebook is calling on its 350 million-strong user base to review and update their privacy settings as it rolls out new tools to enable...
Microsoft Already Working on the Next Version of Office
Microsoft's Office 2010 may be more than six months away from launch, but Redmond is already planning the next iteration of its productivity-applications suite,...