October 23, 2008

Putting Facebook and Twitter to work

(taken from cnn.com)
“Why can’t I have this at home?” Employees in the office used to ponder this question about corporate technology not easily available to consumers.  Today, the question has been inverted.  Simple technologies such as Skype, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are being desired on the job: “Why can’t I do this at work?”
Corporate information technology departments [...]

October 23, 2008

European Nations Fight Online Crime

Members of the European Union have decided to pool together about 55 million Euros ($70.9 million) in hopes of fighting cyberbullying and child pornography. The commissions “Safer Internet” policy hopes to increase online safety for the younger users, mainly children. This four year plan which will be implented from 2009-2013 also hopes to promote the [...]