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Altruistic Behavior Boosts Selection and Adaptation

While for most people helping one another is just the right thing to do, when biologists observe this type of behavior in animal groups, they don't know what to make of it. According to the theory of evolution, all animals should be selfish, bent on satisfying their own selfish desires, and also in a constant st...

28 May 2009
04:26 GMT

Apple Killing .Mac HomePage, Groups

Apple has started informing users of its .Mac HomePage app that it would be shutting down the service, as well as the Groups tool, as of July 7. Content that is already published will remain at the current address until the customer's subscription expires.According to Apple, users will no longer be able to creat...

10 April 2009
02:53 GMT

New Methods of Improving Your Decisions

Despite the popular belief that labels the decisions made by large groups of people with traits such as “herd mentality,” “angry mob,” or “mass hysteria,” recent scientific and psychological studies have revealed that larger numbers of individuals actually seem to give more accurat...

11 March 2009
16:01 GMT

'Follow the Crowd' Tendency Finally Explained

According to a new scientific study, published in the January 15th issue of the journal Neuron, humans tend to follow the crowd because of an innate mechanism inside their brains, which triggers an alert signal when an individual's opinion diverges from the general one. This signal could be the one that dictates...

15 January 2009
07:57 GMT

Mafia Fans Thrown Off Facebook

Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano were two of the most powerful heads of the Italian Cosa Nostra, the name under which the Mafia was invented all those decades ago. They were jailed last month, and already Facebook started producing groups that glorified the two and demanded their release, or even their sanctificati...

13 January 2009
04:15 GMT

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Groups

Microsoft is flexing the social networking muscles of its instant messaging client with the latest release. Windows Live messenger 9.0 (2009) brings to the table a feature dubbed Groups, designed to extend the communication capabilities of the client beyond one-on-one conversations, now helping groups of users talk, ...

30 December 2008
07:38 GMT

Gmail Contact Manager Feature Presented to the World

In case you're still in contact with a couple of old friends from junior high, or even before that, and you like to reminisce together the good old times, you'll most definitely not want to forget any of them, or mistake their addresses when mailing something to the group. That's where the Google Mail ...

11 January 2008
10:26 GMT

Google's Money Reaching New Regions of the World

Because AdSense is a Google technology which works with money and is currently used by millions of consumers, it's very important for both clients and company to provide support for most topics of the service. Since AdSense is available in every corner of the world, some of consumers who are not speaking Englis...

23 October 2007
14:31 GMT

Come On Google, Block the Spam!

Google is now hosting all kinds of spam, no matter we're talking about Gmail messages or unsolicited posts published on Google Groups. First of all, how can you define spam? Dictionary.com sustains spam is an "unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, indi...

2 October 2007
17:06 GMT

Google Attacked on All Fronts

Google receives tons of spam every day, no matter if the unsolicited content is delivered to Gmail, Google SERP or Google Groups. But this latest service seems to be the one which is most affected by the spam messages because the users turn to Google Groups in order to find information about a certain service or feat...

2 October 2007
03:31 GMT

Gmail Improved With Community Answers

The super giant Google works on many sides of its mail technology and today it rolled out an update concerning the Help Center which is now able to provide more results for the users looking for information. Gmail's help manuals were already very rich when it comes to the details offered about the service but no...

1 October 2007
05:00 GMT

Google Office F1 Button (Help Menu) Released

Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the main solution that created the search giant's Office suite, gets the first help group since the release of the service. Basically, the help menu is a Google Groups discussion that allows users to post questions or suggestions and receive replies from other members or even from the...

27 April 2007
02:59 GMT

Google Goes Down! Seriously!

Back in March, Google was really proud of its company after the Internet publications reported the search giant was offline only for 7 minutes since January 1. Although the numbers are quite amazing, it seems like the Mountain View-based company wants to increase the downtime because more and more Google products are...

25 April 2007
06:44 GMT

Gmail Updates and Alerts Available to Everyone

Google Groups was designed to represent the best alternative to help customers of all the Google products by allowing them to communicate with other users of the services or even with the company's officials. Today, the search giant introduces a new topic created especially for Gmail, the mail solution recently ...

5 March 2007
06:10 GMT


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