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All Recent Tags Not my sentiment but that of Johnathan Nightingale, the Firefox security interface designer no less who has gone on record as saying that "we didn't want to put in something that was half baked" when talking about how the privacy button might interact with websites and mashups alike. Which might...
Read More | Jun 16th, 2008
According to the New Scientist it appears that Apple has decided to cover all bases when it comes to how iTunes is used. Apparently, buried deep within the iTunes End User License Agreement is this little gem of a clause:
"Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple Software for any...
Read More | Jun 14th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 17th, 2008
People have been saying that Google is going to buy Digg for the longest time, but now that Digg founder Kevin Rose confirms he is not against selling up does this mean that GDigg is a real possibility? It seems so, yes, and to the tune of $200 million as that's the figure that is flying around the...
Read More | Jun 13th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 14th, 2008
The story exposing how some TomTom satnav units had been sold complete with no less than three pieces of malware pre-installed which broke right here in the DaniWeb blogs last year was yesterday named 'Best Information Security News Story' at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Haymarket...
Read More | Jun 12th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 12th, 2008
Do any of the following sound familiar? Intel is not only driving but actually creating the USB 3 specification, while at the same time refusing to share the full spec with the industry, oh and don't forget that it has 'borrowed heavily' from the PCI Special Interests Group.
They all do to Intel...
Read More | Jun 12th, 2008
OK, so Barack Obama is not the first politician to 'get' the Internet, heck Al Gore invented it after all. However, sarcasm aside, what Obama has done is grasp the true power of the next generation Web: he has transformed political campaigning at a national level thanks to social networking and,...
Read More | Jun 8th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 10th, 2008
There is a really very interesting article in the online edition of Vanity Fair called 'How the Web Was Won' and subtitled 'An Oral History of the Internet' which recounts through the comments of those involved the first fifty years of Internet history.
Sure, you are probably thinking that the...
Read More | Jun 6th, 2008
Channel Insider has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has beaten off the competition in the 2008 Product of the Year awards to scoop the server operating system award. This is important for two reasons: firstly the fact that awards are given to products which "exemplify attributes of high...
Read More | Jun 3rd, 2008
Google would argue that it does not need to make the privacy policy it has any easier to find, after all you only have to click the 'About Google' link on the homepage and then go and click the 'Privacy Policy' link that can be found at the foot of the page that consequently opens. Indeed, that is...
Read More | Jun 3rd, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jun 5th, 2008
According to an Information Week article, it would appear that gamers actually like the in-game adverts that they see while they play. Or rather Massive Inc, a Microsoft subsidiary that handles in-game advertising, has said as much. Gamers were surveyed and the results suggest that they will...
Read More | Jun 3rd, 2008
