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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Careless Tweets Cost Lives – MoD in Social Media Warnings

Posted on 15th June, 2011

Soldiers of Britain! Do you Tweet? Post Facebook updates? Check in on FourSquare? Well you could be betraying state secrets to the enemy! So say a selection of videos from the Ministry of Defense.  A marketing campaign from the MoD has raised the issue of members of the armed forces … Continue Reading

Facebook Fatigue Sets In

Posted on 14th June, 2011

Are you sick to the back teeth of Farmville? Does the thought of being tagged in yet another drunken photograph fill you with dread? If you’re vigorously nodding your head now you’re not alone, as millions of users have started to abandon Facebook. Reports are showing that over 100,000 Facebook … Continue Reading

Pirate Ninjas Warn NHS – Your Networks are Insecure

Posted on 10th June, 2011

If that’s not the strangest headline you see today, we apologise. But the BBC are reporting that “Lulz Security”, a self-styled collective of “pirate ninjas” have uncovered weaknesses in the National Health Service’s computer network. The group, who claim to behind recent hacking attacks targeting Sony, have contacted NHS network … Continue Reading

Fancy Playing Guitar on Google?

Posted on 9th June, 2011

It’s not often that we’re glad none of the workstations here at FirstFound have any speakers plugged into them. But today is one of those days, thanks to a musical doodle from Google. Today, June 9 2011, would’ve been the 96th birthday of Les Paul – one of the musical … Continue Reading

Happy IPv6 Day!

Posted on 8th June, 2011

Remember the fuss about IP addresses running out? Well, as predicted by everyone sensible, that crisis has completely failed to happen. Instead, Wednesday June 8 2011 has officially been declared as World IPv6 Day – the day that people stop panicking and start testing a new IP address system. A … Continue Reading

2011 – A Record Breaking Year for Malware?

Posted on 7th June, 2011

If you cast your minds back to the halcyon days of early 2011, you might remember a story about a drop in the levels of spam on the internet. People rejoiced as they recieved less unsolicited and potentially dangerous emails hawking fake drugs and spreading viruses. But it looks like … Continue Reading

Google to Drag Internet Users Into the 21st Century

Posted on 6th June, 2011

If there’s one thing that FirstFound’s web development team hate, it’s having to jump through hoops to make new designs work on ancient browsers. And it looks like Google’s developers feel the same way. As of August 1st 2011, the following browsers will no longer be supported by Google: Internet … Continue Reading

Social Media Sites Crown Next’s New Top Model

Posted on 3rd June, 2011

Could this man be Next’s new top model? If social media sites have anything to say about it, the answer is most definitely yes! Following Next’s decision to run an online campaign to find their next modelling superstar, a number of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit … Continue Reading

Google Fails to Learn From Buzz

Posted on 2nd June, 2011

Remember Google Buzz? No? Well, neither does anyone else. Especailly not Google, who seem determined to try and out-Facebook Facebook. This time, it’s with social sharing. Forgetting that the main reason we all use Google is the clean, simple, uncluttered interface and generally trustworthy results, Google have decided to let … Continue Reading

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