Instant messages (IMs) from chat clients and from within social network services provide the same service for essentially free.
The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.
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The Oracle Public Cloud will include Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
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Oracle recently announced the Oracle Public Cloud, which combines Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
With Home, Facebook Inc. is inserting itself between users and Google, diverting them to the social network's own ads and services.
It is critical to have the ability to monitor the usage of social media from within the network, including the ability to identify which users are accessing which social media services, determine the volume and pattern of usage, and inspect and alert on the content being transmitted to those services.
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For Patton, who works for a financial services company near Boston, social network scraping is only a hobby.
All this is doubly threatening for Yahoo, because at this point, it has virtually no hope of developing a social network or even significant social media hooks into its services.
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The partnership with Spotify signifies how Facebook is flexing its muscles in the media space, offering services that keep people within the social network, rather than scouring other parts of the web for content.
And if you thought Europeans flew the flag for privacy, 42% believe social network providers should get more information on people using their services before allowing use, while 49% think the authorities need more resources to monitor our online behaviour.
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With the social enterprise mPedigree Network, HP leveraged its technology expertise in cloud-based services to design and build an anti-drug counterfeiting service in Africa.
Whereas in the 1990s, Web companies shelled out tens of millions of dollars on advertising to find users, today's social media leaders like LinkedIn acquire new users through network effects -- their services become more valuable to users when their friends sign up.
Waze Chief Executive Noam Bardin is friends with Josh Williams, the former chief of location-based social network Gowalla acquired by Facebook who now leads Facebook's local-services efforts.
The social network plans to end user voting on its privacy policy, and allow the sharing of information across its services.
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