IOC to check censorship
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is going to be looking into the problems of internet censorship, which appear to be occurring in Beijing. This comes about as the media begin to descend on the Chinese capital for the start of the Olympic Games next week.
Although the authorities have stated that they will allow the media [...]
Google’s Knol validation not working
Knol has been released from beta testing by search engine Google, the idea is that Knol will become a sort of wiki type service, but the contributors who have to be registered users of Google services will actually earn a percentage of the revenues generated by Google’s own advertising system.
However, some people have found that [...]
Customers await letters from ISP’s
Customers of internet service providers (ISP) are bracing themselves as an agreement between the top six ISP’s (BT, Orange, Tiscali, Virgin Media, Carphone Warehouse (AOL, TalkTalk) and BSkyB) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) to fight against file sharers has been signed.
The first order of business will be that the ISP’s using information provided by [...]
What are most pirated TV shows?
There is one good thing about bit torrents and that is the fact that it is easier to come up with lists of the most downloaded TV programmes. This helps everyone see which programmes are worth looking at.
Whether they are viewed on satellite, cable, online or by pirated copy, to the viewer it makes no [...]
Man arrested for filming the Dark Knight
Taking over £30 million in one day was not the only success for the makers of the latest Batman film had, as a man was arrested as sat there filming the screening, while others watched the film over the weekend.
The staff at the cinema in the US saw the man with what looked like a [...]
Music pirates not ruining the industry
Despite what the music and film industry are telling us about the harm that pirated music and other copyrighted material is having on the industry, a Canadian government report on the music industry and pirates, seems to say that the opposite is actually true.
Instead of the pirates having a detrimental effect on the music industry [...]
Pacemakers can be hacked
For something that is so crucial for a patient with a weak heart, the pacemaker for the all that it does happens to have a security flaw, which could prove to be deadly for patient.
These devices are implanted into the body and help keep the heart beating at a steady rate, but it is a [...]
TinyURL banned by Microsoft
The battle against spam and malicious emails is an ongoing thing which needs virtually 24/7 attention, which is why businesses like Microsoft have to constantly work at fighting this problem. But, in doing so they can sometimes by accident cause problems for other users of the internet, which is what has happened to TinyURL.
On Windows [...]
Wi-Fi theft clears users
A court in Germany has ruled that any internet user who has a wireless router can not be held responsible should somebody manage to get into the network and do their stuff on the P2P sites which are being monitored.
This ruling will eventually be taken up across Europe including the UK which is going to [...]
Tiny image causing concern
There is something on the gmail pages which is causing concern amongst people. When you log into your account and go your page right up in the top left hand corner you will notice a tiny dark spot, initially you could mistake it for something on the monitor screen. But upon closer inspection it soon [...]
July 3, 2008Computer users still do not update security
In these days there are so many threats to computer security, that it is a wonder that so many computer users are going about their business on the internet without making sure that they are completely safe from the remote threats that are lurking around every corner.
A study produced by Google, IBM and the Swiss [...]
Online privacy under threat
It has been called a “Cold War” but during the cold war there was an escalation of arms in order to bluff the opposition into thinking that one side was more powerful than the other.
The internet cold war is very different, on the one side there is money and power, these are the governments [...]