Microsoft offers pay per use PC
When a large business talks about a pay as you go computer, most people would think that there is some sort of rip off there and there probably is, after all these are businesses and are only in it for the cash that they can make.
The concept is simple, a computer buyer wants to get [...]
Cybercops wanted
There are calls for the internet to be policed if the amount of frauds and threats to personal data are to be controlled, according to Mary Landesman of ScanSafe.
Recently there has been a huge increase in the amount of scareware being pushed around the internet; this is where computer users are being lured into downloading [...]
Sites that fail the IE8 test
With the release of Internet Explorer 8 due, it is supposed to be weeks, but we all know how that works with Microsoft. However, this is not the problem at the moment, what is, are the amount of famous websites that are not yet ready for the IE8 experience.
Here are just a few:
Techmeme
Dell Support
The New [...]
No need to smoke with the iPhone
Now is possible to smoke anywhere that you like, bars, restaurants and even at work, although the actual physical aspect of smoking cannot be carried out, in the work place or wherever. However, more like virtual smoking if that is any good at all.
It all starts with an application from the App Store with an [...]
Twitter looking to create revenues
For a long time there has been talk of why the social networking site Twitter has not gone for the big money route, they have enough users to justify it and it is free to use. However, this means to start generating a revenue stream now is going to be a lot harder.
There is a [...]
Chrome loses beta label
When Google launched the browser, Chrome there was a great deal of interest, yet now things have settled down they have a market share of just one per cent, most users would have thought that this would have been larger but there it is.
However, this may begin to change with the beta tag being removed [...]
Microsoft launches Oxite
Oxite is a new open source blogging platform offered by Microsoft, the product is being target towards developers rather than trying to competing with the likes of wordpress and other favourite publishing platforms.
Oxite is available on the codeplex website it has been designed to offer support to blogs and websites as the users will be [...]
ISP’s filter Wiki
Customers of some UK based internet service providers have been finding it hard to access the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. This is because a certain article has sparked off a blacklisting by the Internet Watch Foundation.
This blacklisting has been caused because of images that have been linked to child pornography, but because of this, all surfers [...]
Orange block the Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay must be getting used to being blocked by countries and internet service providers by now it seems that customers of the ISP Orange are being blocked from visiting the Pirate Bay.
With Orange covering many European countries including the UK, France and Spain but in a recent survey by the consumer magazine Which? [...]
Facebook awarded £400 million
Members of social networking sites are used to getting the odd the bit of spam every now and then, these are normally messages sent by other members to groups etc. But for users of Facebook spam has been getting a little bit out of hand, although that could be about to change.
On Facebook one of [...]
Wi-Fi in the air
Getting access to the internet while on a long flight can be a useful thing, the user can stay in touch and even do a bit of surfing to pass the time, but there are still some issues with laptop owners being able to access the internet in the confines of a plane.
These issues range [...]
Green Wi-Fi coming soon
The problem with Wi-Fi is getting the equipment out there and working, this requires power and it is not always possible to do this, so Wi-Fi equipment maker Meraki has come up with a solar powered outdoor node, which could solve the problem.
However this would require an almost doubling of the cost, this has to [...]
Data sharing between Facebook and Microsoft
It is becoming increasing difficult to prevent your personal details even if it is only your email address from getting into the hands of spammers, marketers and other businesses that see that this type of personal contact is the most cost effective way of getting their products and services in front of potential new customers.
It [...]
Do not tell your friends about songs
To a certain extent, you can understand the music industries take on illegal copying of music, which is then either given or sold on to other music fans. However, in recent times we have seen lawsuits and claims made by the industry representatives on the people that they feel are guilty of sharing music.
Yet nothing [...]
Internet black boxes still on the cards
It seems that the government’s plans to store all of the websites visited and emails received and sent is still on the cards, and how they plan to do this was revealed at a meeting between government officials and several internet service providers such as BT, Sky Broadband, O2 and AOL Europe.
The plan is to [...]
They were supposed to be killer apps
Whenever there is a highly successful website or application there are always going to be the pretenders to the thrown who according to their founders and supporters will be the next killer application.
Like Google for instance this is a business that many have tried to copy and yet Google still survives and is getting stronger, [...]
Virgin Atlantic sacks FaceBook using staff
FaceBook is no doubt a brilliant success and with a hundred and ten million users worldwide, it can be used to get a message out to a lot of people all in one hit. However, this can go terribly wrong when it is used to voice your opinion, especially when it comes to work.
This is [...]
The top ten computer viruses
Computer viruses were conceived in the late 1940’s but it was not until some forty years later that they started to come into their own. The early editions had to be distributed by hand, a hacker would put it on a disk and simply hand it out, then they were placed on flash drives, which [...]
October 28, 2008Inside the mind of a hacker
Hackers are often looked at as either a seriously bad guy or some young kid who is out to have laugh, but according to some psychiatrists hackers are rattlesnakes but with the rattles. Whatever your take on a hacker is, one thing is for sure they cause no end problems.
The two most noticeable hackers at [...]
Now Gmail offers auto response
At last for some users of Gmail they can sit back knowing full well that their email account will be looking after their friends and colleagues with an auto responder with attitude.
In the same way, that Gmail will not allow you send an email when you have had a late night out, this service allows [...]