April Fools Google Style
The 1st April always throws up some interesting news stories or are they, this is the problem with April Fool’s Day, and it’s one of those occasions when almost any announcement or breaking news story is treated with suspicion, no matter how true it may be.
There are some carefully prepared pieces that get people thinking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 24, 2008Now 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 [...]
Gmail’s security measures
With millions of users you would have thought that Gmail would have got their act together by now, well in some circumstances they already have, by adding improved security features this makes account hijacking much more difficult.
But many thousands of users are being locked out their own email accounts with no easy way of getting [...]
Spammers send out piracy emails
It seems that while internet users brace themselves to receive those dreaded emails from their internet service providers (ISP) about alleged downloading of pirated content. Now there is something else that internet users should be looking out for, spam.
The spammers are sending out emails to internet users, these appear to come from Media Defender and [...]
Sheryl Crow gives away music
The popular singer Sheryl Crow is offering copies of her political take on the current world situation to anyone who signs up to join the Rock the Vote web site, or for anyone who wishes to be on the organisations mailing list.
However, as an extra bonus, for the first fifty thousand people who take up [...]
Apple store give figures
Apple are looking at a tremendous figure for the iPhone, not only is it selling faster than it can be made, but they are also packing in a huge amount of applications for the device too.
The number of iPhone applications available for users to download and buy is currently estimated to be around a thousand, [...]
50% of IT workers look at confidential files
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June 9, 2008Virgin Media writes to down loaders
Subscribers with Virgin Media who like to download the odd bit of illegal music, film or software better be watching out for a letter to drop on their door mats, for their ISP have teamed up with the BPI to close down on the illegal file sharers.
This comes from the government’s plans to make [...]
June 6, 2008What’s good about Firefox 3?
It is not long now before the wait will be finally over and the downloading begins of Firefox 3. Although it was only just over two years, when Firefox 2 was unleashed onto the world of browsing.
But with an estimated fourteen thousand changes being made the world is waiting for Firefox 3 download day, [...]
May 12, 2008Web Power usage under fire
It is amazing to find that by doing a simple search on Google uses enough power to keep an 11 watt light bulb alight for hour. This is a mere search, so you can imagine the power requirements that are needed to download a music track, TV programme or film!
So in total it has [...]
May 2, 2008Where Vista has failed
There simply cannot be any computer user who has not heard about the problems with Vista, but although there are many problems, actually finding out what they are and how these problems will actually affect your own computer use.
So for anyone who is unaware of what most people think are the severe problems with [...]
April 16, 2008CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
April 11, 2008Windows Seven for 2010
Could this be it for Vista? Microsoft has announced that once again they have extended the sales of XP until June 2010, which comes as a real surprise considering that this year was supposed to have been the last that we were going to see of XP on the shelves.
So what does this mean? [...]