Facebook Facebook Timeline Is Here To Stay Facebook is pushing Timeline out to all 800 million of its users. And there's no turning back to the "old" profile. Users have seven days to clean up their profiles before their Timeline goes live, transforming the bulletin board-like profile into a visual scrapbook of their lives. With Timeline, users have the option to add a second, bigger… Social Alicia Eler View comments
News EU Commissioner: Rights of Media Could Trump Rights of Individuals There are two rights issues that stoke the flames in the heart of European Commission Vice President and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding. One is something she's dubbed the "right to be forgotten:" the ability for an individual to tell an online collector of personal data to destroy its data about her. The other involves the rights of the… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Analysis How One IT Shop Cut Costs With the Cloud In the space of a year Precise, Software, a midsized provider of application management technologies based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, Israel completely transformed its IT infrastructure to virtualization and cloud software, saving more than $2 million of its annual IT costs. This reduction came through cutting half of their IT staff and… Enterprise David Strom View comments
News Supreme Court's GPS Ruling Has Broad Implications On Tech Those old reruns of "The Wire" I've been working my way through, in which seemingly at least once a season Baltimore police used the latest GPS tracking gadgets to follow a bad guy, just wouldn't be the same had they been written after Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled that its unconstitutional for police to use GPS tracking devices without a… Dave Copeland View comments
News One Tablet Request Per Every Three Smartphones Networking giant Cisco is attempting to quantify the enterprise market for tablets. So, the company spent the last several months of 2011 surveying 1,500 executives, middle management, salespeople and clerical staffs of medium to large business around the world. What they found was that, on average, enterprise IT shops handle one tablet request for… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments