Before YouTube and MySpace, the Web 2.0 was neither as widely used, nor as widely known. At that time, companies that needed online collaboration and file sharing were its main users. That all ended ...

A definitive definition of a Web 2.0 “Social Network” is as hard to come by as a definitive definition of Web 2.0 itself. Tim Berners-Lee recently noted (see “Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0”) the ...

Computers have changed how Americans do almost everything. Soon they may alter national security. There is much more on the information superhighway these days than information. There is a traffic jam ...

After years of socializing, Facebook and MySpace mean business. The sites, which started as a way to help people stay connected with friends, in the past year have begun catering to professionals, ...

The term "social networking" gets a lot of buzz in the media these days. Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are a few of the most popular of these services. These are Web sites where individuals create ...

Web services are built on a set of emerging standards designed to enable integration between all IT processes and systems, and the data center and cloud applications. The idea is to create a new type ...

Computer security specialists warn that Facebook users have been hit with a series of data-theft attacks in the past week as cyber crooks increasingly stalk social-­networking Web sites. Facebook has ...

Online social networks and blogs are becoming the communication medium of choice for millions of professionals around the world. While the reasons for social networking are vast — to stay in touch ...

The built-in feature will come standard with all bare metal hosting plans, protecting often-overlooked but critical security concerns, and streamlining compliance with regulatory frameworks. This ...

Palatine's Women Empowered Businesses (WEB) networking group recently awarded $1,000 college scholarships to two newly graduated high school seniors. Kaelin Bertrand, of Palatine High School, and ...