News 63% of Businesses Fear That Social Networking Endangers their Corporate Security Social networks are becoming a default way for many employees to stay in touch with friends, colleagues, and business associates, but according to a new poll by the anti-virus firm Sophos, 63% of system administrators worry that employees who share too much personal information on social networking sites will put their company's IT infrastructure… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers The Opera Browser Turns 15 Years Old Today Opera the Browser may not be a household name in the United States, but around the world it's wildly popular and on the company's 15th birthday things are moving in directions the founders may never have expected. The company marked its big day with an awesome throw-back version of its home page and a press release reminding everyone just how… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Browsers Mozilla Releases Beta 4 of Firefox 3.5: Faster JavaScript, Built-In Geolocation, and More Mozilla today released the latest beta version of Firefox 3.5, which was formerly known as Firefox 3.1. Beta 4 is now available in over 70 different languages, and, compared to the stable version, features improved privacy controls, and support for HTML5 and elements. Since the release of the last beta version, Mozilla has also tweaked its… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Interviews Canaan Partners India: Early-Stage Investing in India (RWS Interview) For the sixth in our investor interview series, we went east to India to chat with Alok Mittal, a partner at Canaan Partners, in the company's office in Gurgaon, India. We got his perspective on early-stage investing and specifically the challenges and opportunities for a venture starting out in India. Bernard Lunn View comments
AOL AOL Deploys Socialthing Across the Web Today, AOL announced that they're deploying Socialthing for Websites across the company's network of 75+ MediaGlow web properties. The service transforms static sites into social web destinations by allowing visitors to share their experiences across other social properties like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and more. It also allows for… Social Sarah Perez View comments