OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open source software support, ranks the top 10 open source projects of 2010 based on demand for support. – OpenLogic, a
provider of enterprise open-source software support, scanning and governance solutions, has released its list of the
Top 10 open-source projects of 2010.
The provider
of enterprise open-source software support also announced that the company saw
record sales growth in 2010. T…
Analysts are expecting holiday spending to rise slightly from 2009 levels, despite high unemployment rates and a wobbly economy, and mobile phone makers are doing their share to fuel that trend. comScore is predicting 11 percent growth overall, and notes that spending during the first 21 days of November was already off to a strong start, thanks to major promotions on the part of retailers, including around mobile phones. Indeed, in addition to helping out manufacturers, these deals are a coup for consumers& whether shopping for themselves or looking to imbue someone else with some holiday cheer. Below is a sample of whats currently available for less than $100, from the new and affordable but nonetheless boasting 3G, to the markets very highest-end devices, now miraculously available for a song. For $100& or even free with a contract& consumers can now expect WiFi and even 4G connectivity, high-end cameras, crystal-clear touch screens, media players, HDMI support and super-fast processors. Happy shopping. – …
In its 17th Annual CE Holiday Purchase Pattern Study, the CEA found that notebooks/laptops are at the top of consumers’ holiday gift wish lists, second only to peace and happiness. For those shopping for a new laptop this holiday season, Intel developed a Holiday Buyer’s Guide to highlight some of the hottest Intel® Core™ processor-powered laptops available now – some with Intel® Wireless Display for wirelessly sharing content from the laptop to an HDTV and/or Intel® WiMAX for high-speed wireless broadband on the go built right inside the laptop.
New research from AVG Technologies ranks the countries where Web surfers come under attack the most. Topping the list are places such as Turkey and Russia. But the countries with the least attacks may surprise you. – A snapshot of the threat landscape by AVG Technologies named Turkey the most dangerous place to surf the Web.
AVGs analysis is based on an examination of attacks during the last
week of July. According to the company, AVG software detected attacks
against one in 10 customers browsing the Web in…
IT giants Cisco Systems and HP will continue to honor SLAs and other contracts with existing customers, but the intensified competition to build data centers of the future has driven the two apart.
– Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard made it official Feb. 18: They are getting
a divorce, thanks to irreconcilable differences in IT direction.
The final decree will come April 30, when both the channel partner and system
integrator agreements between the two IT giants end.
It boils down to th…
Twitter Lists were launched broadly to great acclaim in November, and thousands of users have spent hours compiling lists of their favorite tweeps (Twitter people). But it can be hard to find new lists beyond what your friends and those whom you follow are curating for the Twitter world. That’s what makes Listorious such a fantastic service. As the name implies, Listorius the best lists of Twitter users on any given topic, and makes them searchable. Created by Sawhorse Media, Listorious also helps List creators publicize their lists. Here eWEEK lists 10 of its favorite Twitter Lists, courtesy of Listorious, which in an homage to Twitter has listed its 140 top lists.
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Blogging celebrity Anil Dash examines Twitter Lists as a way to tag real-time Web feeds, while the Bivings Report says getting added to a Twitter list is more of an endorsement than getting followed. Dash says Lists is a winner because users must be signed in, creating an authentication and relationship requirement that reduces spam. Meanwhile, the Bivings Report says Lists could bring a beacon of light to one of the dark sides of Twitter: the stat padding that Twitterers engage in to gain more followers, thereby appearing important or influential.
– When Twitter Lists began rolling out to the bulk of the microblog
service’s 60 million users the week of Oct. 26, eWEEK opined about the impact
of the feature, which lets users group Twitter contacts into specific lists.
Because other users can view the lists of those they are following and
sub…
Twitter Lists, a new feature that lets users lump Twitter contacts into various groups, went live as a beta for more users this week and should be available to everyone soon.
The Lists feature was opened to eWEEK Oct. 29, so here’s how to create a list. Lists is a fine feature to add for now, but it will be interesting to see what sort of negative fallout there might be from this. Lists could cramp the serendipity factor on Twitter. Users may elect to spend their whole time in Lists rather than venturing out to follow and meet new contacts on Twitter. Is Twitter going the route of Facebook?
– Twitter Lists, a new feature that lets users lump Twitter
contacts into various groups, went live as a beta to more users this week and
should be available to everyone soon.
It’s fairly self-explanatory to seasoned Web services users, but Twitter
doesn’t explicitly provide step-by-step instructi…
Twitter Lists, the new feature to let users lump Twitter contacts into various groups, went live in beta to more users this week and should be available to everyone soon.
The Lists feature was opened to eWEEK Oct. 29, so here’s how to create a list. Lists is a fine feature to add for now, but it will be interesting to see what sort of negative fall-out there might be from this. Lists could cramp the serendipity factor on Twitter. Users may elect to spend their whole time in Lists rather than venturing out to follow and meet new contacts on Twitter. Is Twitter going the route of Facebook?
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Twitter Lists, the new feature to let users lump Twitter contacts into
various groups, went live in beta to more users this week and should be available to
everyone soon.
It’s fairly self-explanatory to seasoned Web services users, but Twitter doesn’t explicitly provide step-by-step…
Facebook revamps its Facebook Groups section for letting people organize around a common interest. Facebook adds a Wall to Groups that summarizes all the recent activities of people within the group and a Publisher that lets users share their content. Group activities will now be delivered to users’ News Feed instead of just the group. Facebook is also in the midst of a big redesign for its homepage. More exciting is the punching match Facebook and Twitter are engaged in, borrowing similar features from each other to flesh out their social networks, which though young, are becoming richer week by week.
– Fresh off the news that Twitter is rolling out its Lists feature to more users, Facebook Oct. 19 revamped its Facebook Groups section for letting people organize around a common interest.
To this point, activities in the 45 million Facebook Groups have been relegated to the group page, making it h…
Twitter Lists has begun rolling out to let users set up lists of Twitterers and share them with others, TechCrunch reports. Twitter Lists seems destined to be one of those wildly popular features that will seem like it’s always been there for people who use Twitter. Twitter also reminded everyone that Twitter was originally conceived as a text-messaging service, by striking a deal with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India.
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Twitter Lists, that
feature that lets Twitterers group fellow users together and share those with
others, has begun rolling out to more users.
TechCrunch reports that setting up a list is easy, for those lucky enough to see it. The
homepage includes a Lists banner with a quot;Crea…
