Social Media World Forum Europe 2010

Social media is big business these days, that's stating the obvious, but the rise of Facebook and its ilk has gotten so meteoric that even major sporting events are fully recognising the importance of the social network. This...

China is going into social media meltdown, by closing numerous sites as well as shutting down two of the country's biggest social networking sites - Tencent and Sina.  The Chinese government has punished the online agencies...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has stated that public authorities who maintain profiles on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook cannot complain or lodge protests in case citizens want to exercise...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims that companies no longer want to merge customer data gathered from various sources when customers themselves start to feel alienated.The CEO spoke during a press conference held this...

Entertainment giant Virgin Media has now taken stock of their own branded VM560 mobile, which is an Alcatel branded One Touch handset and for just £9.99 on pay as you go tariffs.The VM560 mobile phone is an enhanced version of...

This past week I attended the Mobile 2.0 conference in San Francisco. The event organisers had partnered with Unsocial, who have built an event networking app which is available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Unsocial aims...

Recent London riots have brought out a startling fact that social media can play The Good, The Bad and The Ugly depending upon the situation and circumstances it is used under.British Prime Minister, David Cameron, having...

Intel and Toshiba have joined forces in a somewhat unlikely venture: a 'blockbuster-calibre' film which aims to make the audience the star thanks to an amalgamation of traditional filmmaking and social media interaction.Dubbed...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued a strict warning to the participating athletes in the upcoming London Olympics, asking them not to overstep the mark on social networking use during the event.As announced by...

Microsoft has warned about the growing threat of malware attacks taking place on popular social networking platforms.According to Microsoft’s new Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, cyber criminals have slowly branched...

Online marketers are on the verge of rethinking their mobile and social media marketing strategy, a new survey conducted by IBM has revealed.According to CNET, IBM’s State of Marketing 2011 report, which was unveiled at a...

There are mixed reports about whether Google will preview a new social networking platform at the South by South West interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Technology blog ReadWriteWeb claims that Google will take another...

Facebook is planning to extend its vast advertising networking beyond social games on the platform. Facebook business director Dan Rose, speaking at the DLD media conference in Munich, said that although games were the leading...

Media executives have predicted that the new iTunes music service will focus heavily on social capabilities instead of streaming media content.Citing media industry executives, Media Memo reports that, as Apple has failed to...

Apple Inc. has filed a new patent application with the US Trademark and Patent Office that relates to a new iPhone social networking application, called iGroups, which will allow iPhone users to create social groups during a...