The internet is under attack
Most of us feel that the internet will last for ever, but could there ever be a time when the internet actually breaks and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing to look at and no way of carry on the work, it sounds like a nightmare. But this could happen one and here are the [...]
March 27, 2008Microsoft Execs struggle with Vista
The great thing about court cases is other information often escapes to the surface, this has happened to software giants Microsoft who after recently fighting a court case found that some internal emails had leaked out. These emails were from Microsoft’s executives and the details contained within them make pretty interesting reading.
The emails highlight [...]
March 10, 2008Data stolen from Pentagon
It will be a year in June when it was announced that there had been an attack on the Pentagon, which is effectively the US forces head office. At the time the Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted that there had been an attack and that it had been successful causing chaos to the email service [...]
March 7, 2008FBI gets access to phone network
It is everyone’s worst nightmare the thought of some faceless person listening in on their conversations, checking their emails or websites that have been visited, reading their text messages and yet it would appear that this can and has been done and there is no need for wire tapping or anything as they will be [...]
March 4, 2008Nine years for spammer
There was a time when sending the odd speculative email to people was the done thing, but this soon got out of hand when the spammers began to take the email system over, but who would have thought that by doing this you would end up in jail!
Well that is what has happened to Jeremy [...]
The web under attack!
Its been a couple of weeks since the underwater cable problems that has effected the middle and far eastern regions of the world, the loss of these cables initially caused severe problems for the regions but since the traffic has been redirected the network is slow and in some cases on and off occasionally.
These cables [...]
World economies at the mercy of the sea
There seems to be news about the damaged undersea cables coming out almost every day, the unofficial count is now set at five cables that have been cut or damaged, but it would also that it is only affecting one particular region, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United [...]
February 4, 2008Complete working freedom
Anyone who works completely via a computer often dreams of just packing up and travelling off to some beach somewhere and working from there, where it warm, dry and just a little bit out of the rat race.
But it’s the practicalities of actually getting down to doing that often stops us from just grabbing [...]
PSP to get Skype soon
By the end of January all Sony PSP owners will able to talk to each other with the help of Skype the phone service that enables users to talk to each other over the internet at no or reduced costs. There are around 250 million registered users all around the world.
The service will become available [...]
Master gmail like an expert
Becoming a master of gmail could be a few simple steps away if you were interest in becoming a master gmailer in the first place that is.
By following this course you will be able to master the following skills:
Features:
Creating Labels in Gmail
Creating Filters in Gmail
Learning the keyboard shortcuts is essential to becoming a Gmail Jedi [...]
Spam still dominates email
There was a time when spam as we have come to know it, was only taking up about 5% of all emails, mind you that was back in 2001! Since then the amount of spam has steadily taken giant steps, in 2004 the figure was up to 70% which was when everyone started to moan [...]
December 7, 2007The problem with Gmail is:
There is a problem with gmail, and that is you cannot have a gmail account or your account gets cancelled which is causing some people so many problems to the point where they cannot even access their own emails, which could relate to jobs etc.
However this is fortunately an error, I say fortunately because that [...]