Apple getting ready to launch Snow Leopard
Apple has announced that it will be releasing the latest operating system that has been initially named Snow Leopard in September.
The cost of this upgrade will be just $29 per licence or for households that have more than one machine there is the Family Pack this allows for up to five machines to be upgraded [...]
Opera 10 out on beta
It has been a long time coming, but finally the wait is over and Opera 10 has arrived in beta. On board the user will find a new look that feels better, runs faster and comes with a whole host of new features for the user to play with.
By using compression technology, the user will [...]
Do not disconnect pirate’s plea from artists
There was a well publicised meeting of senior suit types from the government and entertainment industries last week, where the topic of internet piracy was high up on the agenda. The idea is still to force the internet service providers to disconnect the pirates.
The entertainment industry want to follow the French way of three strikes [...]
Google puts the s into search
Making a quick search on Google is simple enough and the average person simply takes it for granted that the results are best that the search engine can come up with, but people who use Google for work and other related searches are not so sure that the results are how they should be.
The common [...]
Why are botnets so hard to find
The rise of the botnet has been help by the rise of social networking and other user friendly applications that are appearing on the internet these days.
A user hears of something good or is sent a link to a site that offers a new and exciting way of making friends; they often have to download [...]
Convert those visitors
It is the dream of website owner to get something from everything visitor to their site, whether this is advertising revenue or the selling of a product or service, the end result is the same, revenue.
All private and commercial websites need revenues if only to just pay for the up keep of the site, but [...]
Boss of Google UK has house removed from street view
While the complaints come rolling in about Google’s Street View feature the boss of Google UK has made sure that his £2 million home in West London is not visible through the service.
Street View allows you to virtually stroll down any street on the database and at anytime turn 360 degrees as if you were [...]
Making a wiki work
Surprisingly the first “Wiki” style pages started to appear during 1995, the term is used for a collection of pages that are produced by a number of different people in order to create an informative page.
Yet it seems that business has never embraced this part of the internet as they have done with blogs etc. [...]
The first computer working again
A computer built at Manchester University back in 1952 may have been the first of its kind, but the developers of the new machine which was named the Mark One or occasionally it was referred to as simply “Baby” had no idea what the machine could do.
However, it was found that if they entered hundreds [...]
Yahoo to be streamlined
It is always the same when a new boss starts, things change and people get worried. This is no different at firms like Yahoo with the new chief executive Carol Bartz being recruited last month changes are on the way.
The word is streamlining which is not a word used when a company is thinking of [...]
Facebook backtrack on TOS
When an organisation the size the Facebook decide to revise their terms of service, it is never going to go unnoticed, in fact not only did this move attract attention it virtually caused a riot amongst the members.
The problem occurs with the data that members upload to the site; essentially, what Facebook claimed is that [...]
In flight internet flying into trouble
The introduction of in flight internet, is good for business as this opens up a new revenue stream for the airlines, who could really use a lift in these troubled times.
However, the staff of the airlines and in particular the flight crews are foreseeing that there could be trouble ahead as in flight internet becomes [...]
The boss will get the message
It had to happen sooner or later a site where employees can offer their employers a little bit of advice all in the name of fun or more serious some constructive criticism. The site is called the Anonymous Tip Giver and surprisingly it has been developed by the job site career builder.
A user gets to [...]
Teens a danger to themselves
For most parents the fact that their children on spending a lot of their spare time online is not a problem, but it turns out that for teenagers the greatest threat to them on the internet is actually themselves.
The chances of them being harmed in way by complete strangers is very rare, of course we [...]
White House Twitter account a fake
A lot has been made about how the new president of the USA is well at home with the latest technology and indeed it was this that some say helped him to the White House.
Even on day one he and his team set to work on utilising the White House facilities such as the [...]
Obama is on White House Twitter
The new president may have messed up the swearing in, but one thing that he has done right is the taking over of the White House Twitter account.
This had been used quite a lot during the Bush era, with around fifteen hundred updates being made during that time. These were mainly links to speeches made [...]
Does piracy matter?
This is a question, which will run for a very long time, simply because there are many angles to the situation. First are the genuine users of games, they have to input serial codes and are often restricted to having the game on one machine.
Then there are pirated copies which are sold at boot sales [...]
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 [...]
Google search not so green
It has been estimated that a simple search on Google will produce around 7g of carbon dioxide, whereas boiling a kettle of water will produce around 15g of carbon dioxide.
These shocking figures have been produced by Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University, who says that the emissions are produced by the electricity used [...]
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 [...]