Cloud computing, so far, has not lived up to expectations. It is slow, it has troubles housing huge enterprise critical data, and it is perceived as insecure. A key reason is that many historic clouds achieved their cost savings by using older technologies.
Timeline is the newest significant change in Facebook, a social media network known for making enhancements to its service that result in an almost endless mixed criticism and compliments from users. Timeline also has been both praised and panned in the internet world.
Yahoo! Inc. is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered internet company.
The cuts was announced on Wednesday, April 4th 2012, represent about 14 percent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo!.
Twitter has announced that it is open sourcing the work it has done to improve MySQL in its production systems. The microblogging and social networking platform is a major user of MySQL.
In the continuous battle for search engine supremacy the winner is always being determined by the number of users that are using the search engine. During the early days of search engines, Yahoo!
Even before Google launched its new privacy policy in the early March 2012, consolidating separate privacy policies for more than 60 applications, legal issues had surfaced.
Social network is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people. A social network service consists of a representation of each user, his/her social links, and a variety of other additional services.
Although the Web may have miles to go before it starts to seriously influence voter registration — millions of younger people who can’t yet vote but have grown up with the Web — it is already having an significant effect on how candidates relate to the voters.
Time and trends are changing rapidly. Apparently more people now get their news online instead of from newspapers. And that half of online news readers are mobile.
Facebook is one example of social networking media site that succeed in scaling their system. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers is to keep the site up and running smoothly inspite of handling more than half a billion active users.