Thomas Claburn

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Google Ups Bug Bounties Amid Booming Exploit Market

Thomas Claburn

August 16, 2012

Decline in bug reports, plus competition from cyber-intelligence agencies, spurs Google to sweeten its vulnerability disclosure pot.

Networking

Google+ Satisfies While Facebook Slides

Thomas Claburn

July 17, 2012

Google+ doing better than Facebook in pleasing users, American Customer Satisfaction Index report says.

Data Centers

Google Drive Revealed: Watch Out Dropbox

Thomas Claburn

April 16, 2012

Scheduled to arrive next week, Google Drive storage service comes with 5GB of free disk space.

Networking

Google To Counter Facebook's Social Comment System?

Thomas Claburn

March 27, 2012

Third-party websites may get a Google+ commenting system, suggests report from Google conference in Saudi Arabia.

Networking

Google Marries Google+ To Search Results

Thomas Claburn

January 09, 2012

Google's own social network will now mingle with search results--which will soon include Google+ photos, posts, profiles, and pages. New privacy choices accompany changes.

Networking

Facebook Acquires Social Location Service Gowalla

Thomas Claburn

December 05, 2011

Deal will likely help Facebook Places become more competitive with Foursquare and similar services.

Networking

Google+ Invites Enterprise Customers

Thomas Claburn

October 27, 2011

Google's social network becomes available to Google Apps users and adds content discovery features and photo editing capabilities.

Networking

Will Google Music Go Social?

Thomas Claburn

October 24, 2011

Google is said to be following in the footsteps of Apple and Facebook by linking music listening to social networking.

Networking

LinkedIn Disavows Ads With User Pictures

Thomas Claburn

August 11, 2011

The social network is rethinking social advertising after users object to the use of their images for promotions.

Networking

Tech Giants Push Smart Networking Standard

Thomas Claburn

March 23, 2011

Rivals Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, along with Cisco and IBM to name a few others, are overlooking their differences to promote programmable networking.

Android Software Connects Calls Without Mobile Carriers

Thomas Claburn

January 31, 2011

Project Serval aims to enable communication anywhere, any time, without infrastructure, cell towers, or mobile carriers.

Google Voice Enables Number Porting

Thomas Claburn

January 25, 2011

Now instead of being stuck with some random phone number, Google Voice users can transfer their mobile or home number to the service.

Data Centers

EMC 'Doubles-Down' On Storage

Thomas Claburn

January 18, 2011

A series of product launches highlights the seemingly insatiable hunger for enterprise storage.

Networking

CES: Verizon CEO Foresees Smarter Networks

Thomas Claburn

January 06, 2011

Tomorrow's networks will make content available more widely and more easily, but there may be a cost.

Data Centers

Google Offers Exchange Insurance

Thomas Claburn

December 08, 2010

The company's new Message Continuity service promises to safeguard Exchange messages through Gmail.

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