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The number of Android apps has surpassed the 50,000 mark, and is increasing daily. With so many options, it’s difficult to know which ones are applicable to your organization and its employees.
These five business programs for Android phones tout unique and useful features. Although no one plans to give up their laptop and start [...]

(AP) — Yahoo Inc. is hoping to turn on a new sharing option in its popular e-mail service without shocking users who prize their privacy.

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“If you build it, they will come” isn’t always enough. Sometime you have to let somebody else build on your foundation.

That’s what Google is now doing with Gmail, letting Google Apps customers add various third-party applications that integrate with the e-mail service.

“Starting today, third-party developers can build Gmail contextual gadgets and distribute them in the [...]

A Florida woman yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc., charging that the new Buzz social networking tool set violates the privacy rights of users.
Eva Hibnick, a resident of Sarasota County, Fla., filed the suit in a San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of herself and the approximately 31 million U.S. users of [...]

When Google unveiled Buzz earlier this week, one of the first things that jumped into many people’s minds (including ours) was “haven’t we seen this before?” The answer is yes.
Buzz is, in many ways, highly derivative of existing, and quite popular services. The three biggest ones that come to mind are Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed, [...]

(AP) — In response to privacy concerns, Google says it has tweaked Buzz, the social hub it added to its e-mail service this week.

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(AP) — Google is tightening the security of its free e-mail service to combat computer hackers like the ones that recently targeted it in China.

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Shortly after Google announced the partially successful cyberattack on Gmail, the company said it will activate by default a secure network technology for its e-mail service.

Google has long offered the option to access its Web-based Gmail service by using HTTPS–a secure version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that Web browsers use to retrieve information from [...]

An outage hit BlackBerry smartphone service in the Americas on Tuesday night, operator Research In Motion confirmed. The outage is the second to affect users in less than a week.
“Some BlackBerry customers in the Americas are currently experiencing delays in message delivery,” the company said in a statement. “Our technical teams are actively working to [...]