The end for social networking as we know it
As the founders of social networking site MySpace are moved aside there are feelings that there will be a wave of job cuts following a decline in members, social networking initially boomed with start-ups quickly growing from nothing to millions of users.
However, this market has slowed down significantly and still the money making potential of [...]
Wordpress 2.8 it is good.
It does not seem that long ago when Wordpress brought out the 2.7.1 version of the publishing application, yet it seems that they have already moved on from that and Wordpress 2.8 is already in beta test and would appear to be getting some great feedback.
Therefore, with the beta tester reporting that the new version [...]
University records stolen by hackers
The University of California at Berkley Heath have announced that their health services division has suffered a severe breach of security and that there is a possibility of over 160,000 records of people involved at the university getting into the wrong hands.
Around 97,000 records contain the details of social security numbers were stolen, although it [...]
Moore’s law applied to the internet
For those who do not know Moore’s Law relates to how many transistors can be fitted onto an integrated circuit, this is said to double around every eighteen months which accounts for the growth in computing power which we see.
However, this principal can be applied to the internet, and it has been proved that the [...]
Facebook comes in eighth for population
If the social networking site Facebook were a country, it would be one of the largest countries in the world when it comes to population; with almost a 150 million active users, this makes Facebook larger than the UK, Japan, Russia and Nigeria.
However, it is not stopping there the social networking site is predicting that [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Inside 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 [...]
Linux gets Google gadgets
For the first time Google are providing their famous gadgets for the Linux operating system, this is great news for most Linux users who could be forgiven in thinking that they have been left out by Google in the past.
From now on Linux users will be able to use the gadgets that have been initially [...]
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 [...]
September 29, 2008Gaming argument leads to death
There are many warnings out there about the dangers that can be found on the internet and mainly people are careful as to how much personal information is left on the internet these days. However, in a shocking case of murder, it has come to light that this tragedy started off as an argument on [...]
August 20, 2008US will be a victim of cyber attacks
It is being thought that the next major terrorist attack, will not be seen live on TV with bombs and aircraft, but a rather more subtle form of attack will be carried with the help of the internet.
Over the past week or so, we have all seen the Russian army in Georgia, but these military [...]
Olympics attack Pirate Bay
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written to the Swedish Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, with regards to the amount of video clips of Olympic events being shared on the Pirate Bay.
But as in the true manner of the file sharing community the Pirate Bay have actually gone one step closer to really annoying [...]
Filesharing ok in Germany
Germany is set to become one of the world’s havens for filesharing activities. This comes as the German State Prosecution Service announces that they will no longer be following up most of the legal cases being brought up by copyright holder with regards to file sharing.
This means that individuals will be able to get away [...]
Torrent Privacy does just that
As the copyright holders and the authorities step up the campaign against file sharing, what can only be described as their worst nightmare has come to light, this is a tool, which actually hides the file sharers identity.
This new tool called TorrentPrivacy allows the user to bypass firewalls and even traffic shaping applications, while at [...]
Banking websites insecure
Research into online banking by the University of Michigan has found some fairly serious security issues that could at some point threaten the security of many users of this online service.
This is a wide-ranging issue and not just limited to a small number of banks, in fact the study is saying that around seventy-five per [...]
The oldest websites
For many of us it would seem that the internet has been around for all of time, but there some people who actually remember life before the internet. However, in those early pioneering days of HTML who were the people with their fingers on the pulse of technology, who actually bought those first domain names?
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Two days upcoming on Digg
For the many users of Digg there has been a few unannounced changed which are causing some questions to be asked as to the motives of the Upcoming section. This section is normally where a new news story would be placed for twenty four hours before moving on to wherever they go next.
But recently [...]