Giant Databases, A Risk for Millions Of UK Citizens, Says Information Commissioner

Nearly 280 serious data breaches have been recorded by the authority in charge of making sure individuals' data is protected and to make it worse, less than a quarter of that number were down to stolen devices

WED 29 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Ratify Human Rights Guidelines

In a move to reduce the possible risk of their actions that can lead to human right violations, leading tech companies including Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have signed a set of voluntary guidelines than that will guide their business practices while operating overseas

WED 29 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

University Lecturer Wins £110,000 Over Email Embarrassment

An email sent by Manchester's University of Salford Financial Director, Ray Corner, cost the university a stonking £110,000 after the recipient, Dr Tom McMaster, won a court judgement against his former employee

TUE 26 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Seattle based “Spam King” Goes Behind The Bars For Almost 4 Years

Robert Soloway, popularly known as “Spam King”, is sentenced to 47 months of prison, for distributing millions of junk mails to users, after an extraordinarily long sentence hearing of almost thirty six hours in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

SCO Ordered To Pay Novell USD2.5M For Unix Infringements

Judge Kimball asks SCO to pay $2.5 million to Novel for breach of fiduciary and other related charges

MON 21 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Card declined? Use a gun instead

I almost snorted into my coffee this morning after reading about a chap trying to buy an XBox in Richland Township in Pennsylvania, in the US, with his Visa debit card, only for the transaction to be declined.

FRI 18 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Apple To Take Legal Action Against Psystar For Making Mac Clones

Amidst its much hyped 3G iPhone launch celebration, computer maker Apple has sued Miami-based Psystar for manufacturing and selling unauthorized clones of Mac

THU 17 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Survey Reports Rise in DVD Piracy in UK As One in Three Brits Indulge in Illegal Copying

According to a study conducted by the analyst firm Futuresource Consulting, as many as 38 percent of Brits have admitted the use of pirated DVDs in past six months

FRI 11 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

"Computer Illiterate" Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges

A Massachusetts State worker who was charged of possessing child pornography has been finally exonerated of the charges

THU 19 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

Police Use Bluetooth Devices to Curb Crime

Lancashire police announced that they would be carrying Bluetooth devices with them on their patrols, which will enable them to send crime prevention messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices in the range of 100 meters

WED 28 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News