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Managing information overload
You've got Twitter and Facebook, not to mention IM and those daily memos from your boss. So, how are you supposed to manage it all? It's time for IT managers to come up with a plan to deal with these... Read more...
Facebook: New processors from Intel and AMD don't deliver
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president Facebook's technical operations, spoke about unexpected problems encountered with keeping Facebook running and lamented the "less-than-anticipated performance gains... Read more...
Survey: Top CEOs give Twitter, Facebook cold shoulder
There's some shocking news about CEOs in a new survey released last week. The study by UberCEO.com, an online news site that focuses on CEOs at major companies, found that CEOs at top U.S. companies... Read more...
Facebook username now available
If you haven't done it yet, you can now sign up for a Facebook username with an appealing URL in the form of facebook.com/yourname. As you can imagine, the availability of these vanity URLs is... Read more...
Should you peek at a worker's tweet?
Everyone is on Twitter, Facebook or another social networking site these days. And in all likelihood, your employees are logging on during their workday. Does that mean an employer has a right to... Read more...
Research identifies two distinct groups of email users
A team at Yahoo Research has come out with a new classification to categorize computer users by the way they use their email. Small worlds expert Duncan Watts and his team conducted a study of some... Read more...
Are you hip enough for Gen Y?
Gerry McCartney, the CIO and vice president of IT at Purdue University in Indiana, said it is time for IT executives to connect with the younger generation. He told the New York Times, in a recent... Read more...
Facebook expands security to thwart phishing attack
Facebook, the popular social networking site used by many professionals, has been having security problems. This is a growing concern for CIOs who must always be on the alert for any breaches that... Read more...
How to avoid overdosing on email
From the minute you wake up, you can log on to your email with your BlackBerry, and every minute fo your day--whether you areat work or not--you can be connected to your inbox. For the average... Read more...
Twitter to offer commercial accounts
In a bid to extend its nonexistent revenue stream, Twitter is planning to introduce commercial accounts with expanded features. The idea is to charge a fee for these accounts in order to grow the... Read more...






