Steve Gold
From his base in Sheffield, England, Steve has been a business journalist/techical writer for 25 years, 23 of them full-time. He has specialised in IT security, healthcare technology (he worked in the NHS for 11 years), business matters, the Internet and communications for most of that time.
Articles by Steve Gold
Card issuer adds 2D barcodes to Visa cards
A Finnish firm is marketing an interesting add-on for Visa credit and debit cards - a 2D barcode that is added to the card for loyalty purposes.This rather...
Microsoft discovers privacy with Internet Explorer 8.0
Reports are coming in that Internet Explorer 8.0 - which is apparently alpha testing amongst the chosen few - will have some excellent privacy features when it...
BBC faces ISP storm as it ports iPlayer hosting to Level 3
The BBC has quietly slashed its hosting cost for the iPlayer service by moving from Akamai to Level 3.Unfortunately for many ISPs whose punters download/stream...
Tesco pay-at-pump system uses no PINs
Driving back through Manchester over the Bank Holiday, I gassed up the car at a local Tesco Express on the main drag out of the city - at 109.9p a litre I was...
American Airlines gets ready for in-flight WiFi
After a stack of trials, it seems we're about to get a commercial WiFi service on board a plane, as American Airlines has announced it is has launched its...
British law firms revs up for file-sharing prosecutions
Although most of the newswires seem to have overlooked it, it seems that a group of gaming software firms, including Atari, Codemasters and Topware...
Gold'en Rant : Don't Let The Cashback Monster Eat Your Cookies
Cashback sites. Easy money. These are sites like Cashback Kings and Quidco which `introduce' you to third-party Web sites for mundane items such as car and...
FEMA phones hacked - loads of international calls made
Now here's an irony. It seems that hackers have broken into the Homeland Security Department's telephone system in the US last weekend and chunked up about...
More cheating at the Beijing Olympics
Interesting to see that a hacker has apparently uncovered some skulduggery and cheating at the Olympics.And guess what, it's the host nation that's alleged to...
Crims steal card info at 15 Louisiana restaurants
According to the Associated Press, no less than 15 restaurants in the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana have been hit by crims stealing tens of thousands of card...
A careless phone call traps Radovan
Watching a documentary on Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic last night, I was intrigued to hear that it was his careless use of mobile phones that got him...
Olympics Committee wants help from Piratebay.org
I was mildly amused this afternoon to hear that the IOC (International Olympics Committee) is looking to the Pirate Bay to help it eradicate BitTorrent indexes...
Visa starts real-time mobile transaction alerts in US
Visa has bitten the security bullet and announced agreements with eight North American financial institutions to launch a pilot program testing delivery of...
Drink-driver caught out by Facebook
I was mildly amused at the tale of a 20-year-old college student who, after being busted by the Plod and accused of causing an accident whilst drunk-in-charge,...
Wave goodbye to anonymous Web surfing
Whilst a lot of peeps use anonymous Web surfing services for accessing the Web whilst hiding their identity, it looks like the days when you can do this really...
