It is now axiomatic that most people choose dumb passwords but a recent study on advances in graphics processing suggests that it might have gone well beyond the simple issue of good versus bad logins.  According to a widely-publicised report...

It is said that there are three subjects you should never discuss at the dinner table; sex, religion and politics. I’d like to add a fourth to that combustible list - open source software.Open source is one of those subjects...

Perhaps the New York Times got the story wrong - Google has now denied making any deals with Verizon over net neutrality.According to the Guardian, Google has now issued a statement that seems to put to bed the notion that...

Is Google really using the power of its content delivery platform (that’s ‘search’ to you and me) to sell out the ordinary Internet user? According to US news titles, the Internet’s biggest content player, Google, has come to some sort...

Apple users, it has been said, aren’t real geeks. They love their computers too much to open the lid as might a PC modder or enthusiast engineer kicking around Linux code.Not any more. Apple geeks do exist and while still...

Don’t mess with US lawyers. They advertise on TV as often as breakfast cereal companies might in other countries. And every American has one, or can get one if you cross them.It now looks as if the Philadelphia (Lower Merion)...

It's hard not to admire the software creativeness of Adobe, but security has usually been the company's obvious blind spot. News that the Acrobat PDF reader is to get a sandbox is a sign that things are changing.The case for...

As well-intentioned hacks go the claimed 'hacking' of Skype by one Sean O' Neill looks more like a great advert for a programmer's next Black Hat presentation than anything to worry about.Has Skype cracked? Far from it. This was the...

First came the Digital Economy Act, and now only weeks into its existence a suggested add-on that would transform a controversial law into a ridiculous and unfair content tax. The UK Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music wants ISPs to...

The comScore monthly search stats are in and Bing has supposedly risen 0.6 percent while Google fell 1.1 points. But look carefully and this is no Mozilla Firefox surge. Microsoft is miles behind and destined to remain so even as...