An interesting article on how much Microsoft spend on Research and Development. It covers new devices they developing after the success of the Kinect and the pursuit of the Natural Language interface.
Inevitably, with valuable information comes deceptive mis-information and programme makers have to make difficult decisions about how to harness social networks.
"On Twitter you see people tweeting on various protests that have happened," Dr Azi Khatiri, an interactive producer for the BBC's Persian TV service, said. "But, as a news organisation we have to make sure what we report is accurate and correct.
Users of facebook are linked via 3.74 degrees of separation i.e. "When considering another person in the world, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend." impact of this on obtaining a job