High-profile hacks and data leaks, and what we should learn from them
When are we going to learn that if we leave an open door to our data, someone will walk right in and help themselves? Data isn’t inherently unsafe. And yet it seems like not a day goes past...
Why the evolution of web publishing means web developers will raise their game
I’m a big fan of the question-and-answer website Quora. Being that I follow various topics around web design & development, it’s not uncommon to see this question posed: Now that there’s...
Students blowing a Raspberry in the new year
The new year may be a time for post-holiday blues but there is optimism in the air; the next generation of secondary school students are ditching ICT and learning something far more useful:...
First look at Adobe’s Wallaby: a short hop closer to getting Flash on your iPad?
Only a couple of weeks ago we blogged about the issue of Flash on Apple devices and the impact that may have on the way we build corporate websites. But it seems that Adobe had a plan waiting...
If Microsoft want to get rid of IE6, they’ve got to go local
A software developer actively discouraging people from using their software is a rare thing, but this is exactly what Microsoft are doing with their new “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6”...
Google Analytics account setups – still a bit of a mess
Here’s a question. Google is great at a lot of things, and pours a lot of time and money into continued development of its products – so why is the way that accounts are set up for Analytics still...
Microsoft issues new security warning – but is any browser safe?
At the end of last week, Microsoft issued a warning to anyone using its Internet Explorer browser – which is potentially around 900 million people around the world. In what it called a...
Google gets caffeinated
Google has announced a new turbo powered version of its market-dominating search engine, in the form of a ‘secret project’ it has been working on – a ‘next-generation architecture’ for...
Bing! Search reaches new heights – or does it?
It might sound like the sound a microwave makes when it finishes heating up your ready-meal (or whatever), but Bing is in fact a new search engine from Microsoft. Well, I say ‘new’. Really...
Living in the Clouds
A great example of the possibilities of the internet & cloud computing was unveiled this week at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco – streamed video games. Cloud computing is the...
Digital Britain report not met with rapturous applause
Communications minister and ex Ofcom boss Stephen Carter really had his work cut out for him compiling the interim Digital Britain report, released at the end of January. The report, which was...
New operating system in the pipeline
With the paint barely dry on Windows Vista, Microsoft has already released the beta version of its brand new operating system, Windows 7. Those of us still playing the “where have they hidden...
Rumours of Google causing planetary meltdown much exaggerated
Anyone who saw this article Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches in The Times recently might have been living in fear of the environmental impact of using Google, after the...