For years, governments, such as the United States, have poured billions of dollars into high tech space technology. Most of it has been pretty benign, compared to the other technologies being pursued on land. The most objectionable known to the common folk have been spy satellites and the “Star Wars” initiative, neither of […]
It seems that the big search engines might now be taken to task over their terrible behaviour in China.
You will remember our article on MSN’s recent selling out of Chinese blogger Zhao Jing, which was just the latest in a series of misdemeanours involving the search engines bowing to the anti-free speech whims of the […]
New Apple iTunes software has drawn some flack this week.
The new software has the nifty little feature of sending computer user’s play lists back to Apple.
Of course this is then used to suggest new music the user might like via recommended links - the catcher being that the recommended music is stuff that […]
Not surprisingly, 2005 was the worst year ever for computer security breaches.
This is hardly surprising considering the exponential growth of the internet as well as the wider adoption of general technology - in fact it would be very surprising if 2006 doesn’t outsrip 2005 for cyber-crime easily.
In 2004 cyber crime netted the recipients $105 Billion […]
A few posts ago we showed how eagerly awaited Microsoft’s fix for the WMF vulnerability was. Well, apparently, not only did Microsoft uncharacteristically quickly made the patch available, but it is forcing its users to install it. Normally when an update is available, even when set on the most lax automatic update settings, a Windows […]