Well actually it was me.  Just before coming to FIRST, I was backing up different parts of my computer and so created some shares and opened up my guest account so that I didn’t have to bother about user names and...

After more than a little consideration, I finally signed up to the Fon WiFi sharing collective the other week and managed to get my Fonera router plugged in and operational over the weekend.As well as allowing other Fon punters...

The E-Victims Organisation, which was set up around six months ago to publicise and assist victims of online fraud, says that the police and other organisations are still not treating victims properly.According to Jennifer Perry,...

Yahoo's share prices spiked yesterday following rumours that Microsoft and Yahoo! have started fresh new talks about yet another attempt from Microsoft to capture the ailing internet company; they were still trading well below...

San Francisco-based Communications startup, Twitter, has officially announced that Spark Capital and Bezos Expeditions are coming onboard as investors with Bijan Sabet, from Spark Capital, joining their board. Now that Jeff...

I just attended a seminar with the Harvard educated and chief security architect of the one laptop per child initiative. Wow was that presentation scary.  Ivan Krstic the second keynote speaker delivered a real wake up...

An exciting new component introduced at this year's FIRST conference in Vancouver was the Best Practices competition with a first prize of $5000. This was announced in February and was sponsored by www.cert.org.  Entrants...

While this is actually an old idea, it is nice to see mobile phone companies putting their marketing clout behind a green project; the Orange Dance Charge is a "motion-powered kinetic charger" made up of magnets and...

The UK government has announced plans to make the internet safer for Children through better awareness and education and will invest £9m in a marketing campaign. The action plan for the campaign will use Dr Tanya Byron's...

In early 2008 British broadband users were consuming an average 18MB of bandwidth each per day according to Point Topic’s recent consumer research. “This comes to 280 odd terabytes per day in the UK and is equivalent...

Shortly after announcing the forthcoming release of a 5MP camera phone aptly named Motozine ZN5, various news sources are reporting that Motorola will release another 8MP phone that will set the world alight... apparently. ...

The Scene2008 is the start of a new mobile revolution. It’s all about data, or more precisely information. We have the BlackBerry to thank for that, and the new high speed networks. Discard previous ideas as to a...

It seems UIQ is heading for the technology dumpster.  Nokia’s purchase of Symbian Ltd will streamline the whole product line so that by 2010, S60 will, in a number of guises, dominate the smarter products of Nokia,...

Even though they all offer nearly the same features there still seems to be a high premium paid for some names.  Not SOYO.  Last year we reviewed the 24-Inch DYLM24D6, which was an extremely popular widescreen monitor...

With the new 3G iPhone ready to be launched, Apple along with O2 has announced the roaming rates for their data download services.O2 declared that it will charge 3 pounds per MB for downloads in EU countries, while in other...

Google has come up with a new offering which is designed to help its advertisers effectively track their target audiences.The search giant has launched a new tool called AdPlanner, which provides the advertisers all the essential...

AOL has joined up WIN to set up a mobile content store for both the web and mobile portals. Mobile content delivery company WIN, has announced that it will provide full-fledged mobile content delivery store to AOL.This move will...

Microsoft gets ready to pull Windows XP off from the market, almost. Bill Veghte, a senior officer at Microsoft has revealed that 30th June will be the last date for Windows XP, and that it is not going to reconsider it.From...

Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack, sidejacking or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf[1]) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of websites. Although this type of attack has similarities...

Employment law specialist Ben Doherty of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said that many office policies are written with only email use and website access in mind and need to be updated."It used to be about...

Addressing a roundtable on digital issues in London on Friday, European Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva said that while e-commerce is succeeding at national level, cross-border e-commerce is failing to keep pace. The...

The Information Security Forum (ISF) is warning of an increase in malicious threats including attacks from organised crime and industrial espionage, along with a rise in mobile malware and Web 2.0 vulnerabilities. These are just...