TweetOn Thursday, Google introduced social facial recognition into its Google+ social network. Think this sounds familiar? The tagging suggestion tool, similar to Facebook’s “Photo Tag Suggest” suggests name tags after scanning user’s faces and matching them to user profile pictures or tagged photos on the network. Despite the similarities, Google’s tool secures more privacy by [...]
TweetMobile Computing Here are two more predictions from Ennio Carboni, the Ipswitch Network Management Division president, on another blossoming area of technology in 2011: mobile computing. 2010 witnessed the release of multiple versions of the tablet computer. Although netbooks have been around for a few years now, they continue to remain popular due to their [...]
TweetI’m sure many of you opened your browser to Google this morning to see the capitol of Kansas replace the search giant’s name. If you’re like me, your first reaction was something like “Really Google? That’s all you got? Topeka? Come on . . .” Disappointing given Google’s past April Fool’s jokes, like Google Paper [...]
Tweet ONE LESS WORRY FOR THE IT PROFESSIONAL: JOB SECURITY Do you feel like telling your college buddies who breezed through school with their Humanities degrees “I told you so,” when they call you up desperate because they can’t find their desktop’s power-on button? Thanks to the results of the latest survey conducted by IBM’s [...]