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BIOS obsolete – it starts too slowly
The industry is set to make a shift away from the BIOS technology used to start booting a computer to a new technology which is expected to boost the boot time of computers. The new technology called Unified Extensible Interface (UEFI) began its life as an Intel technology but is now moving into a not…
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Privacy laws in the UK Suck Europe prepares for legal action!
It likely comes as a blow to the Government to find that UK is to face legal action in the European Courts for failure to comply with European Law in regards to privacy. The EU Directive requires that the UK (and other states in the EU) create a industrial regulator that will act as a…
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Dog Attacks Girl Owner Blames games!
A breed of dog which is a hybrid of the Old English Bull Dog (The aggressive one used in blood sports) and a the huge English Mastiff, the Bullmastiff has characteristics of both types of dog – it is large and it can become an aggressive dog. It is no surprise then that an unsupervised…
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High numbers of students turn to hacking
In a survey conducted by Security Firm Tufin Technologies, it acknoleges that around 1 in 5 students are admiting to hacking. The real intresting question is, are the other 4 being honest? When I was in high school , I knew one guy whom would be considered a hacker. At college I did a small…
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Twitter users subjected to worms
Certain twitter users, by which it seems the vast majority have found they were vulnerable to a Cross-Site-Scripting XSS vulnerability in the twitter software. It allowed the site to generate a self replicating worm that spread very rapidly across many users at the peak of it around 100 replications a second were being generated. The…
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Mobiles to go down the tube
For once perhaps Boris Johnston in his role of Mayor of London has actually done something or at least attempting to do something which could have a decisive benefit to the people of London. Getting involved in plans to put mobile phone antenna into the underground network in time for the 2012 Olympics. London would…
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Cant get onto Facebook, perhaps your on orange?
Reports of troubles accessing Facebook by Orange Mobile customers suggest that Facebook has started to ban a significant a mount of IPs from the Orange ISP IP Pool. This highlights the problems associated with using IP as a means to block trouble makers – quite often the IP used belongs to others not just the…
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Facebook Places in the UK
Facebooks latest extension is launching over the next few days here in the UK. The Places technology was put online on the US Facebook site about a month ago. They must be happy with the performance with it to decide to expand already to other markets.Moreover, the service from today will be available to the…
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A Small victory over the BBC
The BBC’s license grants it the right to increase the cost of the TV license annually even if they do not provide an increase in benefits or service or quality associated with the rise. Naturally we still don’t have the right to a competitor to avoid paying the license which with any hope could be…