social networks news from FierceCIO

Private social networks are blanketing the enterprise, with hundreds of thousands of organizations having deployed them over the last year and a half, reports Carolyn Duffy Marsan at Network World. Read more...

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) revealed a $450 million investment in Facebook last week, and yet the investment giant still blocks its employees from using the social networking site. Goldman Sachs is in Read more...

The use of email is apparently on a decline, according to figures quoted in a New York Times report. The total number of unique visitors from the United States to major email providers like Yahoo and Read more...

Twitter is a 21st century technology that many older workers have not yet adopted. And as it becomes a more popular communication tool, the debate over social networks in the workplace becomes Read more...

Google launched Buzz with plenty of fireworks last week but quickly made an about face to fix the product after a firestorm of protest about privacy. Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Read more...

There's competition brewing in the world of social networking. Google introduced a new social networking product on Tuesday. The new service, called Buzz, will let Gmail and mobile users post status Read more...

The day after the Super Bowl could be a bad day for your network if too many of your workers spend their time on social networks talking about the game instead of using their terminals to work. Read more...

The importance of social networks was underscored last week in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. It became a major topic on Facebook. It was such a big topic that Facebook mistakenly Read more...

Pagers, PDAs and floppy disks are all technologies of the past. But other obsolete technology lingers on. Sometimes it's the cost of replacement that keeps them alive. Other times, it's just a Read more...

Data centers are the biggest challenges facing IT executives in the coming years, Gartner analyst David Cappuccio said in an opening keynote address at the annual Gartner Data Center Conference this Read more...