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Thought this was an interesting take on networks

With new social networking platforms appearing from behind every corner, it can be hard to know exactly where to commit your time and resources. And as we move into the latter-half of 2013, it's important to look ahead to where social networking is going, and how we can get on [...]

Engineers at the University of Virginia have come up with a way to make almost any device fitted with standard visible light LEDs able to communicate with other equipment with similar LEDs. This could reduce the use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections, and increase available bandwidth.

International Business Machines Corp. is revamping its social-networking programs for mobile devices, including Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry

This is not too surprising with all the new WiFi devices to be had out in the electronic jungle. Very interesting read.

In fear of a repeat of the middle eastern revolts in their country China is clamping down on all social networking sites.

MELBOURNE, Australia - 13 August 2014- Specialist Australian solutions integrator and FlexPod Premium Partner, Envisian, today announced that its current directors are acquiring Australian IT hardware, accessories, networking and business software reseller, Digiworld. Digiworld will continue to operate under the same brand, and will maintain exceptional service to existing and new customers, once the acquisition takes effect on 25th August 2014.

A study of 50,000 people in Italy concludes that online social networks have a significant negative impact on individual welfare. Online social networks have permeated our lives with far-reaching consequences.

Last month, attackers took down the PlayStation Network for several days, embarrassing Sony and leaving tons and tons of gamers unable to feed their Destiny addictions for almost a week. This is all thanks to what's called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where a person or a group of people send an inflated amount of traffic to a network in hopes of overloading and crippling the servers.

A new open-source tool can periodically scan an area for rogue Wi-Fi access points and can alert network administrators if any are found. The tool, called EvilAP_Defender, was designed specifically to detect malicious access points that are configured by attackers to mimic legitimate ones in order to trick users to connect to them.

A new open-source tool can periodically scan for rogue Wi-Fi access points and alert network administrators if they're found.

Interesting

Never thought this would happen.

Does anyone remember Google Wave from a few years back? It was an early attempt at social networking that flopped miserably.

I figured it was due to people using youtube as well as people using gmail. http://www.reelseo.com/google-plus-gmail/