I have been following the development of Windows Phone 7 for some time now, and noticed a very worrying development recently. It seems that even the most passionate supporters of the upcoming phone OS, are starting to prepare us for the worst! Windows Phone 7: Not the game-changer we were promised? Just a few weeks…
Twitter has announced the launch of a feature called embedded Tweets. This gives bloggers the chance to paste a short piece of flat-HTML into a post and BOOM – you have a clickable tweet right there on your site. It’s going to make life a lot easier. So, smart idea, right? Well, maybe not! Google…
Carol Bartz, head of Yahoo, has some business advice for Google. It’s unclear why Ms Bartz thinks Google NEEDS her advice, but in a weird interview with The BBC, Ms Bartz said that Google is heading for problems, unless it takes her advice. She explains: “Google is going to have a problem because Google is…
As you may have heard, Cnet’s Tom Merritt has joined Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. This move raised more than a few eyebrows when it was announced recently, as Cnet are one of the biggest technology content providers in the world and Laporte’s TWiT network is a 5 year old business, run from his home, with…
On Friday 19th March, TeenTech 2010 comes to The Madejski Stadium in Reading, Berkshire, UK. The brainchild of BBC Presenter and Tomorrow’s World favourite, Maggie Philbin, TeenTech is all about getting teenagers interested in science and technology as a careers.
The BBC news announced today that The British Library wants to archive every British website, for posterity. This GREAT IDEA has been dedicated quite a bit of air time on TV and radio – as well as coverage on the BBC website.
The coverage is all about how important it is not to lose these websites, as they are a part of the Internet’s heritage. They say that we don’t want to lose these sites for ever – Good point.
But – The service already exists!
f you want to protect your online accounts from hackers, rule number one is to select strong, hard to guess passwords.
However, a recent report by the guys at Internet security firm Impervia, suggests that Internet users are still relying on the same kind of predictable passwords that they used a decade ago.
Password strength
Impervia released a list of the top 20 passwords, which were found when RockYou.com was hacked last month. According to Impervia, these were strikingly similar to the passwords used on Hotmail.com, when that too was breached almost 20 years ago!
Starting with the most commonly used, the 20 most popular passwords were…
The government of Finland has just announced plans to offer a 100 megabit broadband connection to every home and business in Finland!
This follows on from their declaration last year; that a broadband Internet connection is a human right – and that every home in Finland will have a minimum 1 megabit per second connection.
100 megabit connection by 2015…
Everyone’s talking about the Apple Tablet, nick-named the Apple iSlate. So, here’s a quick prediction for all those tech pundits and bloggers expecting ‘game-changing’ hardware from Apple, in their big announcement this week.
Here’s why I think you “might” be disappointed…
Here are a few technology related sites / blogs I highly recommend you check out.
TWiT – This week in tech
Crave – From CNET
The BBC website technology pages
Here’s why I recommend them.
