NEW YORK -- Social networks are a major resource for hackers trying to capture valuable corporate data or run amok inside business networks, the information security director of a major online trading firm told Security Standard attendees.
Organisations are battling to keep up with emerging security threats resulting from the rapid evolution of Web 2.0, according to McAfee CEO David DeWalt..
Political lobby group GetUp! has shared insights into how email, social media and SMS were crucial to the success of its recent election campaign.
The former head of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, Dr Nicholas Gruen, has handed in his report card on the major parties' use of Gov 2.0 principles.
IP Australia is looking to implement a content management system for its websites and potentially Intranet by March 2011, in an attempt to improve communication and information flow to clients.
A panel of CIOs have agreed developing a workplace social media policy around the use of sites like Twitter is not exclusively an IT issue.
You can now check your Facebook status updates and add friends within Microsoft Outlook, thanks to an update to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.
BP PLC has mostly failed to take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity to use social networks to at least partially blunt a public relations nightmare that started two months ago when an <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177363/Researchers_race_to_produce_3D_models_of_BP_oil_spill">oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico</a> , causing a massive spill.
Yahoo and Facebook users around the world can now link their accounts to view and share updates with friends on both Web sites, Yahoo announced Monday.
When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines, the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging.
After months of speculation, Google Thursday unveiled Google TV , described as a way to meld surfing the Internet with channel surfing.
The Federal Government has put a call out for case studies on the use of web 2.0 technologies in the government space with a view to setting up a gallery to help the edification of others.
Angling to get in on the social networking craze, Microsoft yesterday showed off an early technical preview of a new tool that would aggregate social media.
The Federal Government has issued its response to the Government 2.0 taskforce report, with a fairly positive outlook on Web 2.0 technologies. The new AGIMO blog is a sign of the Government's new policy, with open communication between departments and the Australian public. While it will take a while to determine whether the recommendations have any success, it's worth asking: do you think the Federal Government is doing enough to communicate with Australian businesses and individuals?
The University of NSW Faculty of Medicine has developed an in-house student management system, dubbed eMed, which has remained cost competitive with commercial software for seven years and is now being extended into the Web 2.0 paradigm.