It's time for an updated guide to protecting your data on Facebook. Here's how to turn Face Recognition off, and make your profile as safe as you'd like it to be. Facebook seems to be forever pushing the boundaries of what "online privacy" means
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Heres how to use social blogging, a combination of microblogs (short posts) and status updates, to increase your visibility, improve your search engine results, drive more traffic to your company's website, and potentially increase sales. When people are looking for a product or service, oftentimes they will first look for information about the subject on the Internet. In general, blogging is about having conversations in a public space that position you as a subject matter expert
Read More »Apple’s Putting Your Music, Documents, And Photos Into iCloud
"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC conference today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Apple revealed its long-awaited cloud sharing and sync service today, iCloud. Far more than a way to back up files to a distant server, iCloud is integrated across Apple desktops and mobile devices to ensure that all of your computers can synchronize contacts, calendars, email, apps, music, photos, and more
Read More »IBM Offers Cash-Strapped Mayors A Smarter City-In-A-Box
A plug-and-play system for cities that want the benefits of real-time data crunching, without the big bills required to become a true city of the future.
Read More »Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: HopStop
How this door-to-door directions, mapping, and route-planning service uses customer feedback to drive innovation and success. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.
Read More »The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance [Live Stream]
Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched.
Read More »Goodbye, Video Bootlegs: Future iPhones May Stop You From Filming Movies And Live Performances
Drop that iPhone! An Apple patent application is stirring controversy because it suggests future iPhones may automatically prevent filming or photography of films in the theater and of stage performances. Is a Phish concert still a Phish concert if no one's there to record it? A fresh Apple patent application is stirring controversy because it suggests future iPhones may automatically prevent filming or photography of films in the theatre and of stage performances
Read More »Aaron Levie, CEO Of Box.net, On The Future Of The Cloud
For this installment of our forward-looking Crystal Ballin' series we speak with the man who founded his could-based file-sharing platform in college.
Read More »This Is What The U.S. AIDS Epidemic Looks Like
A new interactive map of U.S. cases shows that HIV is probably more prevalent in your neighborhood than you think. It has been just 30 years since the first cases of HIV were diagnosed
Read More »Another Thing NFC Could Change Forever: Product Warranties
Near-field wireless tech could reinvent not only your wallet, and how you shop--but also how you return defective products to the store under warranty. Near-field wireless tech may soon reinvent your wallet and how you shop--and now also how you return defective products under warranty to the store
Read More »7 Tips for Forecasting Sales
Sales forecasts are by nature imperfect. But experts say there are ways to squeeze more value out of the projections you're making
Read More »The Geeks Are Graying
Why businesses shouldn't treat technology as a young person's game Ninety percent of technology marketing targets 10 percent of the population: the young, the cool, the perceived digerati. A few niche companies address the senior market with products so simplified your cat could use them.
Read More »Google’s NFC-Powered Digital Wallet: Room For Your Shopping Lists, Credit Cards … And Complete Trust
Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things
Read More »Intel’s Hybrid Cloud For SmallBiz
For many smaller businesses, outsourcing IT to "the cloud" is tempting (read that; cheap and easy), but scary (at the mercy of someone else having an outage or getting hacked leaving the company exposed). Intel is hoping to ease anxiety with a new offering it describes as a "hybrid cloud" solution, specifically targeting nervous small business owners. See what you think
Read More »Out, Damned Spot: Blood-Spatter Forensics’ Newest Advance
Blood spatters are telltale marks of violent crimes, and have captured the public imagination in shows like Dexter, CSI, and Bones--shows whose cool tech may be less based in reality than special effect. For instance, it's only just now been worked out how to determine the height from which blood droplets fell.
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