In a story of preferential treatment, there was anger and disappointment when it was discovered that the boss of BT, Sir Michael Rake, has the only broadband in the village of Hambleden. The village is on the board of Oxford and Buckinghamshire. When other residents applied to have broadband, they were told that they were [...]
As computers become more powerful,their designers face a problem with the design of the chips. To pack more features on the chip make them interact faster they must become smaller and as the density increases they require more power to move the electrons which represent the states 1 and 0. The switching also produces a [...]
F-Secure, the anti virus company has discovered a new malicious worm running on iPhones in the Netherlands. To become infected requires several factors, however you must be: using an iphone that has been jailbroken so that it can run unapproved applications. using the SSH (secure shell) application using the default password in SSH living in [...]
The UK government will soon be debating laws for internet service providers and telecommunication companies to keep records of all internet activity for a year creating concerns by many people over privacy. These plan are part of a government initiative, called the “Intercept Modernisation Programme.” The data would be made available to government bodies without [...]
