Monthly Archives: June 2010
Google Buzz Links Added to Social Search as Google Me Precursor
Hot on the heels of reports that Google is building a social network to challenge Facebook, the company said June 29 it will begin...
Online Retailers Dialing Up Mobile Strategies, Survey Finds
Consumers' increasing appetite for mobile applications is driving online retailers to speed up their mobile marketing initiatives, according to a Forrester Research study produced...
Google Docs Viewer Comes to Android, iPhone, iPad Devices
Reading documents has typically been a painful chore on most smartphones, where applications struggle to rationalize the so-called third screen.Google, whose Android operating system...
Facebook Discusses Fight Against Spam
Facebook offered users a glimpse at its anti-spam arsenal recently in an effort to be more transparent.With billions of pieces of content being shared...
SkillSoft, Pearson Partner to Offer Cisco Press Books
SkillSoft, a software-as-a-service provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for enterprises, government, education and small to medium-size businesses, announced an agreement with Pearson...
Cisco Rolls Out Cloud Preparation Services Suite
As Cisco Systems reinvents itself partly as a cloud-computing infrastructure provider, it needs to add a set of services to wrap around all the...
Foursquare Banks $20M to Fuel Location-based Service
Location-based service Foursquare June 29 said it raised $20 million in series B funding from Union Square Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.Foursquare's...
Software Engineering Institute Contract Renewed
"The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year contract extension, with a face value of $584 million," the research...
MeeGo Handset Code Released to Developers
Nokia and Intel have made a preview of the MeeGo mobile phone software available to developers.In a June 30 blog post, Valtteri Halla of...
Spammers to Face Video CAPTCHA Technology
A company is launching video CAPTCHA technology designed to make spammers' lives more difficult.NuCaptcha is offering a fresh approach to blogs and other Websites...