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 [...]
Twenty five years ago Windows appeared
It’s amazing to think that twenty five years ago a fresh face Bill Gates was introducing the world to Microsoft and the first Windows operating system, the year was 1983 and it would take a further two years before the operating system known as Windows 1 would be inside computers and on the shelves of [...]
November 10, 2008White 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, [...]
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 [...]