Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

In a letter to the panel’s Democrats, Verizon said it had provided customer IP and phone records to federal authorities without a court order some 720 times between January 2005 and September 2007 (for comparison,…

"I don’t even have an e-mail account," he says. "When I tell that to the executives I work with, first they look at me with surprise, and then they look at me with envy."

Corporations are tapping into internal and stakeholder social networks to capture their wisdom and encourage greater collaboration.

Surveys show almost half of users do not back up their data.

IBM says universal standards will help drive the use of virtual worlds beyond gaming and entertainment and make them more practical for businesses.

That means a high-quality version of the movie "The Matrix" could be sent in a few seconds rather than a half-minute over the old Internet2 and several hours over a typical home broadband line.

Consumers walking around a Wi-Fi intensive area are likely to light up like ambulating Geiger counters.

Newsvine, which has six full-time employees, relies on its community of users — it has about 1 million monthly unique page views — to determine what’s news.

"We think that video RSS is a really good way of making it a level playing field, so our goal is to push the video industry in the direction of openness — towards using open standards."

That’s both the genius and the weakness of the Web.