Gore Unbans Press From Wireless Industry Keynote

Al Gore charges a lot of money to talk, and likely that was the reason for banning the press from a forthcoming keynote at the CTIA Wireless 2009 tradeshow in Vegas; can’t let those juicy words leak out to the general public for nothing.

Students Invited To Google Summer Of Code

It's no secret that the job market is less than robust right now, and things look especially grim for people who don't have their feet wedged in some doors.  Fortunately, Google Summer of Code 2009 is swooping in to give students all sorts of great opportunities.

Lexicon and the Potential of Facebook Search

The whole real-time search discussion has been heavily focused on Twitter, and that is certainly a huge part of it, but while it has certainly been touched upon, Facebook has not received as much attention in this area. Facebook is a huge part of the equation. It's much larger than Twitter (at least at this point in time), and the social network's recent shift to…

Black Hat SEO Lucrative For Cybercrooks

Obviously, cyber crooks wouldn’t do what they do if there wasn’t any money in it. Thanks to some black-hat search engine optimization and a little rogueware (a.k.a. scareware), some are making almost $11,000 a day, according to FinJan’s first Cybercrime Intelligence Report for 2009.

Facebook’s New Strategy: Ignore Your Customers

Remember all that talk about Facebook becoming more democratic? Despite the highly publicized rhetoric, all appearances point to a Mark Zuckerberg dictatorship, relatively deaf to user complaints. While business owners have the right and responsibility to run their business as they see fit, the young CEO might want to reconsider saying one thing and doing another. It’ll just come back to bite him.