There’s been quite a bit of coverage over the recent months about Social Networking in the workplace. It’s been a few years since this particular issue saw this much coverage. Maybe it’s the current economic situation that’s driving organisations to be more concerned about staff productivity or it could just be sheer coincidence.
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After five years and with over 300 million users signed up, Facebook has at last reached break even point. The company has seen a tripling of users in the last 12 months, has recently launched a revamped search engine and is soon to launch an online payment system. Analysts are predicting income to rise by [...]
The launch of Google Street View in the UK last week certainly hit the headlines. In the first 24 hours there were a number of memorable images available that had somehow slipped through Google’s net; a man being sick outside a pub, youths with traffic cones on their heads and a man leaving a sex [...]
Hitwise has revealed that in the UK for the year to date, Facebook is the most popular search term with 2.39% searches dedicated to this term as well as being the second most visited site in the UK behind Google. It receives an unbelievable 1 in every 24 internet visits and its traffic has doubled [...]
Some interesting results have come out of the web filtering company Bloxx’s independent Anonymous Proxy Survey. A worrying 90% of IT Managers in the educational sector view anonymous proxies to be a problem, compared with 51% in the private sector. Released this week, the survey aims to investigate the impact of anonymisers on over 200 [...]
Previously companies have been concerned with employees accessing inappropriate online content in the workplace. However, during the past couple of years many of our customers have been asking us to help them to additionally manage employee access to sites that impact on productivity, particularly social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo.
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The U.S. Economy is in a recession, and organizations small and large are going to be faced with budget cuts in the coming year. So, what can your company do to help save money, reduce costs, and improve productivity? Install a web filter, of course!
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The Telegraph newspaper here in the UK ran an interesting article a few days ago. Bill Tancer, a general manager at global Internet stats company Hitwise has just published a book: ‘Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters’, and the interview was extremely interesting.
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1. Mindless Surfing
Problem: The internet is addictive, even for you and me. With celebrity gossip, sports, videos/music, facebook, fantasy football, instant messaging, eBay, etc., all available at our fingertips, succumbing to the temptation of mindless surfing is inevitable. How do you make sure your employees aren’t constantly checking their fantasy scores or what the latest news [...]
Facebook malware attacks: the latest worm installs trojan software to your machine which most likely “zombies your computer, installs a key logger, and other fun stuff” states techcrunch.com blogger. The attack is the latest in a rising trend of malicious hackers using social-networking sites to distribute malware. This posses a great danger to schools and [...]
