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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK.
Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist of the Year (2008) an award that I also was fortunate enough to win in 2006 as well. Other awards include Best Information Security News Story (2008) for a DaniWeb piece about TomTom satnav Trojans, Best IT Security Feature (2008) and (2007), as well as Technology Journalist of the Year back in 1996. All of the above being UK based awards, I hasten to add.
My latest book 'Being Virtual' was published by Wiley, in conjunction with the Science Museum in London, during May 2008.
Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist of the Year (2008) an award that I also was fortunate enough to win in 2006 as well. Other awards include Best Information Security News Story (2008) for a DaniWeb piece about TomTom satnav Trojans, Best IT Security Feature (2008) and (2007), as well as Technology Journalist of the Year back in 1996. All of the above being UK based awards, I hasten to add.
My latest book 'Being Virtual' was published by Wiley, in conjunction with the Science Museum in London, during May 2008.
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Read More | Dec 21st, 2006 | Comments: 13 | Last Comment: Jan 22nd, 2007
As I sit here shivering in the North of England cold and fog, it seems kind of appropriate to be writing about a technology that has been developed by Polar Rose who are based in the even colder region of Malmo in Sweden.
Using face recognition technology originally researched at the Universities...
Read More | Dec 19th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 30th, 2006
WebSense security experts have published their predictions regarding the security threats that we will face in the new year, and perhaps unsurprisingly they revolve around the changing and dynamic nature of the Internet.
“Organized criminals are realizing that the Internet has been a largely...
Read More | Dec 18th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 19th, 2006
A report published by the Social Issues Research Centre, combining data from a YouGov poll with the results of physiological tests on separate study group of Internet users, suggests that there is a link between badly designed websites and negative effects on human health.
Specifically, the...
Read More | Dec 16th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 17th, 2006
According to an in-depth study by the Social Futures Observatory, anti-bank feeling is running so high in the UK that 74% of Brits would consider borrowing or lending money through a social lending community in preference to their high street bank.
In the ultimate case of old concept finds new...
Read More | Dec 10th, 2006
Just as the games console which has the honor of being at once both one of the most innovative entertainment devices to arrive in our homes and the most stupidly named, the Nintendo Wii, arrives on the market so a lawsuit starts that attacks the very heart of that innovation: the remote...
Read More | Dec 9th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 18th, 2007
I have always been fascinated by the fact that, in most areas of technology, physical size is constantly shrinking. The one exception being LCD displays, of course, which seem to get bigger every year. So I was excited by two pieces of news to cross my desk this week, the arrival of a 100Gb 1.8...
Read More | Dec 7th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Dec 8th, 2006
A UK company has launched what it claims to be the first search engine that lets you not only search for specific moments within a video, but click on and interact with moving objects during online playback. Coull.tv has adopted a community approach, which we thoroughly approve of here at DaniWeb,...
Read More | Dec 6th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 7th, 2006
If you believe the results of a study by those chaps over at the USC-Annenberg School Centre for the Digital Future, the answer to the question posed in this blog posting title is 43% of Americans. That is the number of people who took part in the survey, were already a member of a virtual...
Read More | Dec 2nd, 2006
According to my Finnish friends, F-Secure, Bagle looks like it might be back in business. Not that it has ever really gone away of course, as it is one of the most prevalent of worm families.
F-Secure have noticed new activity during the last couple of days, which sees a number of old Bagle...
Read More | Dec 2nd, 2006
