Articles Posted on 02 November 2007
Magnus Nyström discusses advances in Mobile Authentication
News Security
Ben Chai talks to Magnus Nyström, Technical Director at RSA. In this Podcast, Magnus discusses what mobile authentication devices are together with their future uses in the industry. Listen to this interview (c) Incoming...
The Triadic Continuum
News Security
I spend a bit of time blogging about the importance of Persistent Context – this being a data store that contains up-to-the-second contextualized information. Each new observation is Semantically Reconciled, and its...
Golden Rant : Vista, the hidden son of Windows Millennium
News Security
More Vista anger this week, I'm afraid. I powered up my still-shiny two-months-old Dell M1330 laptop yesterday only to see the display had turned sideways.Okay - something gone wrong with the display settings in Vista. But...
Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop for GBP 558.68
News Software
Grab this exquisite Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop for a mere GBP 558.68 including VAT and delivery after a 10 percent discount thanks to this promotional code (7LZTMMW5L0M$WT). Particularly impressive is the fact that it comes with a...
Mac trojan overhype? You tell me.
News Security
This new Mac trojan? Well, it’s actually fairly important news.I don't mean to sound breathless about it. As far as we know, it's not widespread. But this is the first targeted, real attack on Mac users by a professional malware...
Developer keeps software rights as implied term argument fails in court
News Security
A company’s claim for ownership of the copyright in a piece of software has failed because it was not explicitly stated in a contract. Meridian International Services had said that its ownership was an implied term of an...
US ban on internet access tax gets longest-ever extension
News Security
A ban on taxing internet access and email will almost certainly become law in the US. Both houses of Congress have approved an extension to the existing law, and President George Bush is expected to sign the bill within days.A...
US publishers object to anti-prOn law
News Security
US internet service providers, newspaper publishers, journalists and book publishers have joined together to lobby the US Court of Appeal. They are asking the court to find an anti-pornography law unconstitutional.The Child...
If you have Firefox, you need this add-in
News Security
Well, perhaps `need' is too strong a word, but it seems that someone with a sense of humour has developed an add-in for Mozilla Firefox that randomly adds swear words to emails that you write.You can find details of what the...
Another database loss - this time in Ohio
News Security
Database hacks and losses seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment, but a potentially very nasty one occurred in the state of Ohio in late September, though the company concerned - Hartford Life Insurance - has only just...
Vista picking up steam says Microsoft
News Security
Vista's first anniversary is almost upon us and Microsoft is bullish as it looks as businesses are finally listening to the Vista Gospel and converting in droves.The overwhelming number of Microsoft's business clients have been...
The UN, Google and Cisco Unveil Online Resource in the Fight to Decrease Global Poverty
News Hardware
The United Nations, Google and Cisco today unveiled a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015, a global campaign known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs.UN...
Another Mac Malware comes to Apple users
News Security
A few days after Intego reported about a brand new Trojan horse, OSX.RSPlug.A for the Mac platform, a researcher from McAfee Avert Labs has published a blog post saying that malware writers are starting to take heed of the...
British Business suffers from misleading web hosting contracts
News Security
Qube Networks called for an industry Code of Conduct to address contract practices of some web hosting companies in the UK. Qube says British businesses are being ripped-off by web hosting contracts which claim to offer high...
Sudden growth causes internet domain registry to temporarily close
News Business & Government
Dot TK, with its 1.7 million active domain names, is now one of the 10 largest domain registries in the world. The Internet domain of the small group of Tokelau Islands in the South Pacific, has grown bigger than country code...
Another Firefox Update is out
News Software
Mozilla has posted yet another Firefox Update since yesterday. The new release is dubbed a "stability update" and comes two weeks after version 2.0.0.8 reached our desktops; Unlike its predecessor, this version...
Sky's the limit for Google
News Mobile & Telco
Google shares crossed the USD 700 barrier yesterday and are set to increase even more today as Google backed Open Social was officially launched last night. The shares ended slightly down last night at USD 703.21 although it...
Intel Expands Digital Accessibility and Education Initiatives in Nigeria
News Security
Marking his first visit to Africa's most populous nation, Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett announced a comprehensive set of digital inclusion projects aimed at improving education, healthcare and economic development for...
MySpace and Google Join Forces
News Web
MySpace, the world's largest social network, and Google, Inc. announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial - a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an...
Strippers, the killer app for spammers
News Security
Spammers are using the same method as the Amazon Mechanical Turk to defeat CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) solutions put in place by websites like Google or Yahoo, in a...
Nokia and Vodafone want a share of Apple's success
News Software
Two new entries this week on the list of iTunes wannabees. Nokia has launched its Nokia Music store which allows users to download music - the songs cost 80p each with an album costing ten times more and the service does not work...
