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 | Here at DaniWeb I have always been rather proud of the fact that not only is member feedback encouraged, but the powers that be read what is being said, participate in the debate and sometimes their minds, and system policy, are changed by it. For any real community this feedback … |
| | Cory Doctorow, he of [URL="http://www.boingboing.net/"]Boing Boing[/URL] fame and one of the most well known proponents of the [URL="http://creativecommons.org/"]Creative Commons[/URL] scheme, has rather surprisingly attacked Steve Jobs and Apple over DRM. Whoa, hold on a minute there, surprising that someone who speaks out in favor of Creative Commons should be arguing …  |
| | As if Microsoft did not have enough on its security plate, what with the launch of Vista followed by the chorus of ‘it is not quite as secure as you would have us believe is it’ from the worlds media, things only go from bad to worse for the Seattle …  |
| | An independent test of [URL="www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx"]Windows Defender[/URL] against third party vendors has demonstrated holes in [URL="www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx"]Microsoft Vista’s[/URL] spyware protection. Calls of Swiss Cheese could be heard coming from the direction of Spyware Doctor vendor [URL="http://www.pctools.com"]PC Tools[/URL] which commissioned Australian concern [URL="http://www.testlab.com.au"]Enex Testlab [/URL]to evaluate how Windows Defender compared to its own … |
| | So a US Federal Judge says that [URL="http://www.myspace.com/"]MySpace [/URL]is legally protected from any liability as a result of external criminal acts that have been committed by people misrepresenting themselves to other MySpace users. Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western district of Texas ruled that the …  |
| | It has been a few years coming, but at long last the Google operated, web-based, free Gmail email service has lifted the crazy invitation only restriction. As from today you can simply click on a link from the Google [URL="http://www.google.com"]home page[/URL] and join in the fun of easily searchable email … |
| | Security specialists [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL] has released a warning regarding the inevitable malware posing as a message of love on this, Valentine’s Day. The Dref-AB worm is said by Sophos to be spreading fast across the Internet, helped by a clever distribution campaign which saw it emailed to inboxes late last night … |
| | If there is one thing that everybody can agree it is that spam is a right royal pain the ass. If there is another then it is that image spam is the biggest pain in the ass of all. While it is bad enough for the end user, especially at … |
| | The biggest test of Internet homeland security went pretty much unnoticed this week. Yet it represents the most serious attack on the Internet itself for five years. On the 6th February a 12 hour concerted Distributed Denial of Service attack took place aimed at the DNS root servers that manage … |
| | In something of an embarrassing development for Microsoft, four anti-virus products for Vista have failed to reach the required standard to achieve [URL="http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/index"]VB100[/URL] certification by the highly respected independent industry body, [URL="http://www.virusbtn.com/index"]Virus Bulletin[/URL]. In something of an even more embarrassing development, Microsoft’s own anti-virus flagship product, [URL="http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm"]Live OneCare[/URL], was amongst … |
| | File under ‘well it would say that’ you might think, but nevertheless the fact remains that Apple has issued a [URL="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305042"]statement[/URL] on its support website warning iTunes users not to upgrade to Vista. This due to a number of known compatibility issues with iTunes 7.0.2 and earlier versions, although you …  |
| | Microsoft Vista has, in the few days that it has been on general release, managed to avoid the embarrassment of anyone poking major holes in its security from the perspective of protection of consumer PC integrity at least. However, everything is not so sweet when it comes to those media … |
| | My [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1276.html"]original news story[/URL] here at DaniWeb has certainly caused something of a media frenzy. Everyone from specialist GPS and gadget websites through to national newspapers have been covering how TomTom let an unspecified number of its GO 910 satnav devices escape from the factory with not one but two … |
| | [URL="http://www.comscore.com"]comScore Networks[/URL] has today revealed which Web properties were the most popular, ranked by way of total unique visitors over the age of 15 and across the month, during December 2006. According to the comScore analysis, Internet usage increased 10 percent between December 2005 and 2006, with the search and … |
| | It started with an email from a worried satnav user, Lloyd Reid of [URL="http://www.trichromic.co.uk/"]Trichromic LLP[/URL] an IT consultant who knows his way around a computer and knows a virus when his AV software flags one up. The cause for his concern being a newly purchased [B]TomTom GO 910[/B] satnav unit … |
| | Two statistics entered my radar today and stopped me dead in my tracks, which doesn’t happen often. Both concerned the remarkable growth in the connectivity of the Chinese population. The first comes courtesy of the [URL="http://www.cnnic.net.cn/en/index/index.htm"]China Internet Network Information Center[/URL] and reports that the total number of Internet users in … |
| | According to a [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/news/102716/malware-more-compatible-with-vista-than-antimalware-products.html"]news story[/URL] at IT Pro, malware writers are doing a better job of making their code Vista compatible than the developers of the security software meant to protect users of the soon to be released operating system. Rene Millman reports that Tim Eades, a senior vice-president at … |
| | There can be no doubting that the Nintendo Wii, despite the still extremely silly name even after living with it for a couple of months, has been something of a gaming revolution. Not because of the power of the console, Nintendo has no gone down the Hi-Def, triple core, HD-DVD, … |
| | Sex has been one of the silent drivers of technology for as long as I can recall. It might not get reported much, not least because many in the media would prefer to pretend it is not important and has no impact. But the truth is the adult industry has … |
| | The [URL="http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_t_select.cfm"]UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee[/URL] are currently [URL="http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_t_select/internet.cfm"]investigating [/URL]personal Internet security, something that would normally be a dull as dishwater parade of civil servants and former civil servants now consulting for private sector business giving boring ‘evidence’ to a committee of half asleep geriatrics. But something … |
| | They say it is a ‘man thing’ this fantasy about swapping their wife or partner for someone new. Unfunny jokes about trading up to a newer model abound, some even indulge in a swinging lifestyle. But now it seems that some 13% of men in the UK, according to new … |
| | Like many other geeks I have lost the ability to read a map, so used am I to having a posh if slightly robotic lady telling me where to turn during a road trip. SatNav is a wonderful thing, in the right hands, such as Eva Ericsson and the boffins …  |
| | Gartner has estimated that phishing attacks cost the US something in the region of $2.8 billion last year, a problem that is growing fast as proved by the statistic showing the average individual loss per attack has risen from $256 in 2005 to a staggering $1244 in 2006. Banks are … |
| | When Steve Jobs heralded the iPhone as being as revolutionary as the iPod during his MacWorld keynote in San Francisco on Tuesday, he must have known that it was going to be a bloody revolution. Sure enough, Cisco has now fired the first shots with a lawsuit in the US … |
| | The [URL="http://www.finjan.com/SecurityLab.aspx?id=547"]Finjan Malicious Code Research Center[/URL] (MCRC) has set itself something of a Herculean task with a goal of staying not just one, but many steps ahead of those hackers who would exploit open platforms and technologies to develop spyware, Trojans, phishing attacks, worm and viruses. But, working alongside some … |
| | Sometimes you just cannot help it, you find yourself with time on your hands and you go snooping around in places that normal folk just do not venture. So it was with security researcher [URL="http://portal.spidynamics.com/blogs/msutton"]Michael Sutton[/URL] who spent an entire day plugging through the [URL="http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?version=goog-black-url:1:1"]Google blacklist, [/URL] the [URL="http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?version=goog-black-enchash:1:1"]Google encoded/hashed … |
| | Some would say blue, given the amount of sex that can be found on the web. Others might go for black, thinking along the lines of increasing online crime. To many the whole idea of Internet technology is a grey area. But, my friends, thanks to researchers at the Chinese …  |
| | The International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) is planning an alternative Internet, the [URL="http://www.iavrt.org/neuronet.html"]Neuronet[/URL], designed to meet the needs of Virtual Reality applications. Which begs the dual questions of what those needs might be and what does Virtual Reality actually mean these days? Indeed, I spent quite a time … |
| | Research published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) just before Christmas revealed that UK consumers are being conned to the tune of £3.5 billion every single year. The detailed analysis suggests that nearly half of the adult population of the UK has been targeted by a scam, and as … |
| | Finnish mobile phone giants [URL="http://www.nokia.com"]Nokia [/URL]are claiming to have organized the biggest 2006 New Year’s Eve celebration in the world, with more than 2 million people in 5 locations joined by 150 million television and Internet viewers. Fittingly enough, Nokia was delivering on its promise to connect the world through … |
| | It is one of those headlines that makes you stop and read again, is it not? After all, surely nobody is really suggesting that if you partake in an act of virtual violence within the digital realm of a video game that you should pay a very real world penalty … |
| | Well not quite, but the Wikisari search engine could make quite a splash if Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Amazon.com have anything to say in the matter. Using the same basic technology as Wikipedia, and with a provisional launch date planned for the first half of 2007, will be a … |
| | J.K.Rowling has now officially announced that the latest, and last, in the Harry Potter series of books will be called ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ putting an end to the frenzy of speculation on the subject over the last few months. While it has been genuine fans interested in … |
| | A browser with vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and cross-site scripting attacks. An urgent automatic update to patch eight such vulnerabilities, five of which are rated as critical and the complete set as ‘highly critical’ by security exploits tracker Secunia. And even then missing a password management …  |
| | 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 [URL="http://www.polarrose.com"]Polar Rose[/URL] who are based in the even colder region of Malmo in Sweden. Using face recognition technology originally researched at … |
| | [URL="http://www.websense.com"]WebSense [/URL] 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 untapped resource in terms of … |
| | 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 reports links five key … |
| | According to an in-depth study by the [URL="http://www.socialfuturesobservatory.co.uk"]Social Futures Observatory[/URL], 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 … |
| | 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: … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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. [URL="http://coull.tv"]Coull.tv [/URL] has adopted a community approach, which we thoroughly approve of here … |
| | 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 … |
| | According to my Finnish friends, [URL="http://www.f-secure.com"]F-Secure[/URL], 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 … |
| | As some of you may know, I am a Contributing Editor with [URL="http://www.pcpro.co.uk"]PC Pro Magazine[/URL] in the UK, which is why I am able to reveal that according to figures ‘obtained’ by the publication Microsoft Office 2007 will officially be a rip-off. If you are buying in the UK that … |
| | London taxi drivers have a reputation as being amongst the most opinionated and talkative in the world, and their grueling training and testing program ‘The Knowledge’ is equally well known. Now, it appears, the black cab driver has a new claim to fame: the place where more technology kit is … |
| | About five years ago the BBC carried a news story about a chap in Australia who had taken advantage of a new law which meant that patent applications only needed to innovation rather than invention. He registered a patent application for something known as a ‘circular transportation facilitation device’ or … |
| | Although it sounds too good to be true, Toshiba Europe has released details of what it claims to be the first rewritable printer in the world. Yes, you read that right, a printer that can print onto the same piece of paper as many as 500 times. In what may … |
| | [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/"]Kaspersky Lab[/URL] has released its latest Malware Evolution [URL="http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204791907"]report[/URL], covering the period between June and September 2006 and, as usual, it makes for interesting reading. Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab comments that the first six months of 2006 was “notable for the complexity of the technologies which antivirus … |
| | Webmasters are becoming increasingly aware of the power of the sitemap as an SEO tool, enabling search spiders to crawl more pages in less time with the end result of getting more or your links indexed faster. Because sitemaps require only those pages that have changes to be visited, valuable … |
| | [URL="http://www.rackspace.co.uk"]Rackspace Managed Hosting[/URL] has today sent me the formula to create the perfect website, and being a nice chap I felt I had to share it with you, so here goes: [B]Pwebsite = { ((14.14* EaseNav) + (13.56*Speed) + (13.11*CleanDes) + (10.89*Func) + (10.89*Up)) – ((12.63*Pops) + (10.32*Ads) +(5.21*MultiM)) } … |
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