Industry

Army takes a flier on OpenSim

Training center deploys alpha version of open source project to build Second-Life style virtual world grid

How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools

Cautionary tale from a Twitter ‘share-cropper’

Blackstone proposes counterbid for Dell, reports say

The equity firm's counteroffer could start a bidding war

US senate passes Internet sales tax proposal

The nonbinding proposal is the first step toward allowing states to collect sales tax from e-commerce sellers

Facing FTC pressure, Apple bolsters privacy, security

SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but a long-term plan

Microsoft bought Yammer in mid-2012 to boost enterprise social features in SharePoint and other Office and Dynamics products

Google Drive hit by three outages this week

One of the incidents affected more than 30 percent of user requests to connect to the cloud storage suite

Legal experts pitch in to appeal AT&T hacker’s sentence

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act wrongly applied in case related to illegal access of data from iPad users on AT&T networks, they contend

‘Android’ watchmaker Oko sues Google for trademark infringement

The lawsuit comes as rumors surface that Google is making its own smartwatch