Facebook Places Takes On Location Services
The move puts the social networking giant into competition with a slew of startups while potentially paving the way for an array of new features.(August 19, 2010)

Web Fonts Plan Inches Closer to W3C OK
The Web Open File Format (WOFF) nears official approval as a way to enable site designers to use a broad set of fonts supported in major browsers.(August 18, 2010)

SlideShare Adopts Subscription SaaS Model
Taking a page from Salesforce.com, SlideShare answers its users' request for a subscription-based premium version of its presentation-sharing service. (August 18, 2010)

IBM's Unica Buy Continues Marketing Data Push
Big Blue's latest acquisition: a firm specializing in leveraging analytics to better target customer messaging.(August 13, 2010)

Is Google Ready to Compete With Facebook?
Why would the search giant invade Facebook's well-established social networking turf? (August 11, 2010)

Has Google Lost its Net Neutrality Cred?
Net neutrality advocates blast Google-Verizon plan. (August 10, 2010)

LinkedIn Snaps Up SaaS Player mSpoke
LinkedIn, the leading social network for professionals, has shelled out to acquire mSpoke, a firm specializing in a cloud-based recommendation engine to help surface more relevant content. (August 5, 2010)

Social Networking Activity Soars: Nielsen
Visiting and participating on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook has eclipsed email as the top online activity, according to the latest Internet usage study by Nielsen.(August 3, 2010)

Say What? The Week's Top Five IT Quotes
Privacy concerns over Google and the CIA; HP's enterprise slate; why online gaming might help your career and more. (July 30, 2010)

Yahoo Touts Revised Web Traffic Stats
Looking to set the record straight, Yahoo highlights an irregularity in online metrics firm comScore that shortchanged its site traffic. Meanwhile, Google snags a search deal in Japan. (July 29, 2010)

Say What? The Week's Top Five IT Quotes
The technology world's most quotable quips and comments from around the Web.(July 16, 2010)

Limiting Social Networks Could Hurt IT Security
IT Security Firm Trend Micro says the growing use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter in the enterprise threatens security, but limiting their use could make things worse. (July 12, 2010)

YouTube's Growth a Headache for IT Admins?
The popular video-sharing site adds new features to entice users into watching Web videos for longer. But what's the impact on network admins?(July 9, 2010)

Microsoft Debuts Web Development Toolset
Software giant launches beta test of new website development toolkit aimed for novice site operators, offering easy setup for developers and small businesses. (July 9, 2010)

Internet's Social Growth Bodes Well, Despite Flaws
A survey of tech experts finds that in spite of the negatives associated with the Web's growing social capabilities, it's likely to have a positive impact on users overall.(July 8, 2010)

Silverlight Gains PivotViewer Visualization
The free Silverlight control is designed to help users better analyze complex sets of data. (July 6, 2010)

Facebook Simplifies Privacy Policy for Apps
In an effort to help users understand how much information they're sharing with third parties -- and to satisfy its agreement with the Canadian government -- Facebook is tweaking its privacy rules for apps. (July 1, 2010)

Google's YouTube Favors Flash Over HTML5
A software engineer at the popular video site details why Adobe's Flash is still a better solution for video distribution on the Web than the up-and-coming HTML5. (June 30, 2010)

Google Flinches in China Censorship Showdown
Google's commercial license to operate in China is up at month's end and now the search and online advertising goliath is modifying its once-stout stance against censoring online content.(June 29, 2010)

Internet Explorer 9 Ups Standards Support
Microsoft's browser adds more HTML5-friendly features.(June 25, 2010)

Skype Targets SMBs With 5.0 Beta
The new group video conferencing feature is free for now but will small and midsized businesses find it worthwhile once they have to start paying for it?(June 24, 2010)

Google Tightens Up Docs for the Enterprise
Secure collaboration through the cloud is the next great growth vein for online application and security vendors so Google is improving the access controls for its popular Google Docs suite.(June 21, 2010)

Amazon Syncs Kindle to Facebook, Twitter
Online retail giant adds software update to popular Kindle e-reader that will enable users to share content from digital books to friends on Facebook, Twitter. (June 16, 2010)

Microsoft Adds Social Features to Bing
Software giant continues its push to give Bing search engine a social makeover, adding in live feeds from Facebook into search results. (June 11, 2010)

Facebook Joins PTA in Online Safety Effort
Social networking giant partners with National Parent Teacher Association to promote awareness about security and online child safety. (June 10, 2010)