Results tagged “internet”

Google hasn't gone anywhere much with its Chrome browser, so why does it fancy a crack at taking on Windows in 2010? Have they gone mad and are their pockets deep enough? The obvious answer is that it is doing...

Years after its founding, Phorm is still burning through money like a junior dot.com, and now the Guardian reports that the unloved UK startup has been dropped by its biggest potential customer BT. It leaves the company deep in the...

Headlines surrounding the Digital Britain report have centred on a new tax to help rollout broadband and next generation networks in the UK; the government's buck-passing over illegal file-sharing to the ISPs, and that the BBC no longer has a...

Ever wondered why the Internet's top-level domains are restricted to a small palette of suffixes such as .com, .co.uk, .net and .org? That is about to change but don't imagine that everyone is overjoyed. All going well, from some time...

Phorm might be the least loved Internet company in the UK, but it is no longer the quietest. Having demurred to defend itself against charges of running a spyware operation through trail ISPs BT, Virgin Media and Talk Talk (none...

After moaning about on-train Wi-Fi three years ago, sad to report that it is still the same hit and miss affair. One trip on the east coast mainline (a standard bearer for long-distance travel in the UK because it runs...

Nemertes' warnings about the collapse of the Internet have become a yearly occurence like the first cuckoo or Mark Viduka's return from injury. The latest dire warnings about Internet brownouts and go-slows have garnered plenty of coverage from the mainstream...

The adjective ‘notorious' and now defunct Zango Inc . seemed to be made for one another. In memorium, I'd like to add one another - fascinating. Zango (formerly 180solutions) was utterly loathed by the small cadre of security researchers and...

While noting the coming of the web's 20th unofficial anniversary in a blog of a few days ago, I stopped myself short of complete wonderment. Not everything about the web has been good for the world. The problem in a...

With the 20th anniversary of the web's conception closing in this week, the lesson of its arrival is this: don't set out to invent things because you will invent the wrong thing. There was a time, in the 1970s, where...

Eight from one. No, it is not the name of a fictional character from Star Trek, but instead refers to an interesting demo I witnessed earlier this week from MiniFrame, which showed off its SoftXpand offering that allows for eight...

How realistic is the idea of a global force to monitor and police Internet crime? The most recent (but not the only) enthusiast for this has been <a href="http://www.f-secure.com/2008/q3/index.html"target="_blank">security company F-Secure</a>, whose spokesman-in-chief Mikko Hypponen even went as far as...

Finally, the authorities are getting tough with the sellers of bogus security software, a phenomenon known as ‘scareware'. Several companies are now being <a href="http://ftc.gov/opa/2008/12/winsoftware.shtm" target="_blank">chased down by the US Federal Trade Commission</a> (FTC) for a scam that is believed...

Does mobile phone encryption software help criminals? I put that question to the creators of a new program that comprehensively scrambles phone conversations between any two handsets using it. The products in question is Cellcrypt, a program that makes it...

Hard to believe but not long ago it was perfectly legal in most countries in the world to bombard a company's Internet gateway and email server until they fell over. A decade ago I gained personal experience of working at...

So is the new UK Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) announced recently really the disbanded National High-Tech Crime Unit rising to fight again? Tying into another new database, the long-overdue National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC), the new body has £7.4...

I recently saw something that I don't think I've ever seen before - a wireless router with a power button. The whole idea of broadband Internet was that it would be always-on as well as fast, but in these energy-conscious...

How many browser wars are we on now? I make it at three and counting, each one won by achieving a different objective. Browser war one, the war to control web standards, saw the massacre of Netscape by Internet Explorer...

As hacks go, this must be the ultimate example – a TV anchorman has been accused of hacking his colleague at a Philadelphia TV station. And they say regional US TV news is normally about as interesting as dog...

Firefox 3.0 had to be good, and for the most part it is, assuming you didn’t try to download it on launch day. After falling into a hole of mediocrity with version 2.0, it’s back on track with bark....