April 30, 2009

ISP beats copyright cops to data

A Swedish ISP has decided to go against the flow and delete all records of the data that could be used to identify their customers, Tele 2 have made the decision because they say that it what their customers want.
However, with the new EU, law that requires ISP’s to store data for a minimum of [...]

April 27, 2009

Apple and patent infringement

With the credit crunch still taking its toll on almost everyone on a global scale the last thing that you would want as a business is to be involved on a patent infringement, but even worse than that is being on the losing the side.
But this is what’s facing Apple not only have they been [...]

April 21, 2009

Hackers wanted by the US government

The US government are looking for hackers, but this time they are not looking to prosecute them, they want them to work with the government to help combat illegal hacking of government and commercial sites.
The IT firm General Dynamics have been advertising on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security for somebody who is able [...]

April 15, 2009

Steve Jobs still working at Apple

It is being reporting that despite his health related absence from work, Steve Jobs still has his finger on the Apple pulse.
There is no reason to expect anything else, sure he is on medical leave and we all hope that he returns to full health as soon as possible, but why would we expect him [...]

April 8, 2009

Chrome and Linux nearly there

Ever since the Chrome browser from Google was launched user of Linux have been waiting for the chance to see what it would be like, unfortunately Chrome and Linux based operating systems like Ubuntu and Distro are simply unable to use the browser.
Despite the work being put in by the people at Google, it seems [...]

April 3, 2009

Is conficker sleeping still?

Its seems that although the conficker or downadup worm has not made the surprise attack as suspected by security experts.
Although those who have been monitoring the network have seen some activity from it.
So far, the activity has been that infected computers have been instructed to visit web addresses were it would get new instructions.
It [...]