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B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well

This morning the BBC launched a whole new version of its iPlayer app, destined for connected TVs that sport a Net connection. In essence this means the BBC has taken its TV content online, added on-demand features, advanced search powers, playability on multiple platforms both mobile and static, and then fed all of its lessons back into an app...for TVs.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem. After taking several big swings (and whiffs) at social, Google has finally cracked a line drive with Google+

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

Google+ has been in the wild for a few weeks now, and the reviews--like with any new product, especially from a major tech company--have been a mix of glowing praise and healthy skepticism . But whatever the reactions have been from the technorati, there's no doubt the public has been excited to try out the new social network. According to a new report out today by Experian Hitwise, Google+ is growing in multiples.

One of Google Plus's most unique features, Circles, initially attracted users to the service and set it apart from competitors.

The company is so ubiquitous it has no incentive to "delight" users. Wikipedia topped the social media sites for customer satisfaction.

A team at Bing gathers every few weeks to select the photos that will appear on the homepage each day. Here's what they're looking for

PGT: The void Tiger Woods has left may be disconcerting to some. But, really, his era has come to a close and it's time to enjoy the search for the next great champion

Scientific research has proven that Google and the easy access to information that it provides can be detrimental to memory. Practice these four tricks to reverse the brain drain

A better knowledge about the composition of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons has sparked conjecture about, as yet, unseen particles. A tool based on theoretical calculations that could aid the search for these particles has been developed by a team of researchers in Japan called the HAL QCD Collaboration.

Known for her blunt leadership style, Bartz also makes a deep impression online, according to digital footprint tracker PeekYou. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has huge digital feet

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.

It's Facebook's world.