By Chris Scott Barr Over the last week or so, there has been some talk about Facebook launching a “Gmail killer” webmail feature. Various sites covered this and described how Facebook was looking to replace Gmail (and any other webmail client) with their new service. To be quite honest, I haven’t...

By Chris Scott Barr Over the last week or so, there has been some talk about Facebook launching a “Gmail killer” webmail feature. Various sites covered this and described how Facebook was looking to replace Gmail (and any other webmail client) with their new service. To be quite honest, I haven’t...

Different territories demand different marketing approaches. Google , for instance, has been spotted taking the unusual route of promoting their search engine and Chrome browser with print advertising campaigns in India and The Netherlands , respectively. And now a reader informs us that Facebook is...

By Chris Scott Barr I am a frequenter of Facebook, like many people these days. A couple of weeks ago I saw that one of my suggested friends was a guy that I had gone to school with. It’s not unusual to see something like that, but this one was just a little different from the rest. This old schoolmate...

Twitter Inc. is turning Japanese. Or at least trying to. The popular microblogging service on Thursday launched a Japan-based mobile version, hoping to penetrate a country where other U.S. social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have failed to capture much ground. Japanese is Twitter’s...

On Sept. 19, a Saturday — by all rights a day when normal people do their chores and pay attention to their families — I noticed a spike in my Twitter following. In one day, more than 100 new followers jumped on my bandwagon, bringing the total number up to somewhere north of 400. Now, admittedly,...

On Sept. 19, a Saturday — by all rights a day when normal people do their chores and pay attention to their families — I noticed a spike in my Twitter following. In one day, more than 100 new followers jumped on my bandwagon, bringing the total number up to somewhere north of 400. Now, admittedly,...

The latest threat to your company network is a worm called Koobface, which can steal sensitive data from workstation hard drives. Like previous bugs, it not only infects your computer, but uses it as a point of entry to infect others — like your Facebook friends and business associates. “Koobface’s...

Think before you post. That sentiment is at the heart of a new issue between employers — most of whom are over 30 and less-familiar with Internet social networking sites — and employees under 30, who essentially live on those sites. Case in point: An April incident in which a group of employees...

Twitter’s been having a rough couple of weeks. A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last week discovered another, unrelated security problem. At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly...

It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time. A high school student touring the sixth U.S. president’s archives recently noticed his bite-sized diary entries looked a lot like tweets. Starting Wednesday, history will meet modern technology as the Massachusetts Historical Society begins...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., July 16, 2009 — Appcelerator, the only open source provider that enables developers to rapidly create mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single platform, today announced that just one month after the beta release of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium platform it...