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 [...]
Sell your Mp3’s
There is a huge market in second hand records and even tapes. However, what happens to your collection of Mp3’s when you have had enough of them, you have to just delete them to free up space from the hard drive.
But now there is a place where owners of Mp3 tracks can put them up [...]
Consumers buy old PC’s just for the XP
Just when you thought it was safe to admit that you use Vista, something like this comes along to upset the whole thing once more.
It turns out that there is a booming market in second hand and salvaged computers, but why?
The answer is so terribly easy, they do not want the computer, and these old [...]
Worm attack warning
Researchers at Microsoft are warning Windows users to install an emergency patch that they released last month, but it would seem that not users have done so yet, which is a cause for concern.
The company noticed more attacks last weekend, spiking during the mid week period, yet this worm which was spotted by software firm [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
White House emails hacked
Despite all of the problems that surround the security of information, it would appear that the White House still has problems with their computer security as the email archives have been hacked several times over the past few months.
As this has been a problem in the past, the US set up the National Cyber [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The under 18 button, clicked
This is a strange thing because most of the sites that would have the “I am under 18” button right there next to the “I am over 18” button the temptation to click the later must be over whelming because of the content of these sites would anyone actually click the other button and get [...]
October 10, 2008What to do after a Google update
Every time a Google make a page rank update, most website owners and webmasters hold their breath to see what the outcome is going to be. However, it is always going to be a nightmare for some and a disaster for others, so what can be done about it?
Bookmarking
Link Development
Leave Comments on Other Blogs
Write Better [...]
Apple sues over logo
The problem with using a fruit as your name and logo is that you cannot really copyright a fruit or can you? It would appear that the power of Apple Corp goes well beyond the confines of the technical world as a college in Canada has recently fund out.
The logo of the Victoria School of [...]