SMS services to make your standard cell phone smart
Forget expensive mobile data plans. With just a $5 monthly text message plan and some free and seriously useful SMS services in your address book, you'll have the most essential elements of the web at your fingertips.
Want to friend the feds?
The U.S. General Services Administration last week launched a government-wide YouTube channel to provide one central location for citizens to view video clips created by 25 federal agencies. The U.S. Government Channel -- which was viewed 82,000 times in its first week -- is the latest effort by the feds to embrace social media.
Yahoo CEO comes under fire for Flickr engineering cuts
Last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the decision to cut staff at Flickr, the widely used photo-sharing site. GigaOm editor Om Malik listed five Flickr engineers who had left the company. Some, he said, were laid off, while others resigned. Most notable is Cal Henderson, chief architect of Flickr.
Four New Gmail Add-Ons Liven E-mails
Google released some new features, or add-ons, to its free Gmail e-mail service last week. These add-ons make the emails sent over Gmail more interactive by embedding bits of media such as YouTube videos, Picasa Web (or Flickr) photo albums, and restaurant information from Yelp. There is even one that lets you "unsend" e-mails.
Researchers can ID anonymous Twitterers
Researchers have found a way to ID social network users from sets of scrubbed, anonymous data, often shared with partners and advertisers.
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
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Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Researchers can ID anonymous Twitterers
SMS services to make your standard cell phone smart
Flickr founders leave Yahoo
Yahoo bolsters mail app
Four New Gmail Add-Ons Liven E-mails
Yahoo CEO comes under fire for Flickr engineering cuts
Want to friend the feds?