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Archive for October, 2011
Street View Heads Inside
31, Oct 2011Can you hear that? It’s the sound of thousands of Daily Mail readers grinding their teeth at the news that Google’s controversial Street View service is now going to snoop around inside your house, critique your furniture and let burglars see just where you hide the jewellery. It’s a thought so terrifying that you could [...]
Could Data Thieves Face Prison Time?
28, Oct 2011Sir Alan Beith MP, chair of the Justice Committee, has claimed that custodial sentences should be imposed on people found guilty of illegally selling stolen supposedly secure and private data. The UK Data Protection Act (1998) does carry a provision for sentencing data thieves to time in prison, but the government has not yet allowed [...]
Goverments Asking Google to Censor & Remove Content
26, Oct 2011It’s common knowledge that Google have all but given up on China following government pressure to censor results, but did you know that the UK and US governments submit hundreds of censorship requests every year? Google have just released their bi-annual Transparency Report, which lists all the requests the search engine receives from governments looking [...]
Google’s Music Download Service Only 2 Weeks Away?
25, Oct 2011With Steve Jobs’ final words about his dislike of the company ringing in their ears, is it any wonder that Google are about to take on Apple’s flagship iTunes service with a new music download service? Last week, an interview with the late Apple Supremo was published, showing his dislike of Google’s methods, Eric Schmidt [...]
Cyber Espionage Reaches Europe
20, Oct 2011The Stuxnet computer worm that attacked and crippled an Iranian nuclear facility could be in place on European computers, claims an anonymous research lab. Stuxnet, supposedly created by an intelligence agency, is a virus which managed to cause damage to an Iranian nuclear fuel enrichment plant by reprogramming computer-controlled machinery. And now it appears to [...]
Google have announced yet another partnership – and this time it’s with the UK Citizen’s Advice Bureau to produce a campaign promoting safe online behaviour. A series of cartoon adverts will feature in newspapers, on buses and trains, and across the internet to explain to people just how important it is to use secure passwords, [...]
“Our Results Match Google’s, so Use Us!” claims Bing Chief
19, Oct 2011As far as rousing pitches go, claiming that 70% of your product is identical to your largest competitor isn’t going to win any advertising awards. But that’s the exact tactic used by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to try and get people to try Bing. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, Ballmer claimed that most of [...]