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American law enforcement authorities can spy on data stored by EU citizens who choose to use US cloud services – and it is legal for them to do so. Former chief privacy advisor to Microsoft Europe, Caspar Bowden, has highlighted the privacy issue in a Fighting Cyber Crime and... Read more
Google handwrite is a nifty tool that has proven to be extremely helpful to a lot of people ever since it was introduced last summer as a beta. Recently, Google has announced that they have improved the tool making it faster and easier to use. The tool now offers... Read more
This Week’s Top 5 Trending Videos
Internet February 1, 2013
This week’s top 5 trending videos is united by one common factor: loads of fun. While you may consider them profane, vulgar and offensive, there is no doubt you are in for a fun time when watching these viral sensations. Without further ado, here are the top 5 trending... Read more
Despite North Korea being one of the world’s most shrouded countries, Google Maps has helped users get that little bit closer to it, by publishing better detailed maps of the area. Thanks to a ‘community of citizen cartographers’ which came together in Google Map Maker, the new and more... Read more
Driverless Cars Have a Confusing & Unsettled Liability Issue
Internet January 31, 2013
Google has been developing its autonomous (driverless) car for years. While its vehicle’s only accidents have been at the hands of drivers using the cars in manual mode, those accidents have outlined a major issue — who is at fault when an accident does occur in auto-drive mode? The... Read more
As well as launching a fully re-designed operating platform and two new smartphones, BlackBerry has announced an American superstar as its creative director and has officially changed its company name. Events were held across six cities yesterday to celebrate the new BlackBerry 10 platform and the first two BlackBerry... Read more
The Red October Espionage Platform was the biggest spyware threat encountered in the last few months; however, reports about the threat appeared just a week ago. On January 16th, Kaspersky Lab (a Russian cyber security company) discovered a major malware that was targeting government facilities, diplomatic consulates, intelligence agencies,... Read more
Google is completely revamping their image. Their image search, that is. If you’ve ever used this popular searching tool, then you know that works by quickly yielding results to an inquiry in the form of multiple thumbnail images. In the current Google image search format, the images are all... Read more
Microsoft’s Windows division helped the software giant reach record revenue in its 2013 second-quarter, but year-on-year profit have fallen. The US multinational corporation earned a net profit of $6.4 billion, or 76 cents per share, during its fiscal second quarter – down from $6.6 billion, or 78 cents per... Read more
Will Common Crawl Be the Next Google?
Internet January 30, 2013
Google is known for having a vast collection of online information. When you want to know the answer to a question, or if you want to find out more information about virtually anything, you Google it. As a company, Google has amassed a vast collection of indexed, online content. ... Read more
Kim Dotcom has become the latest internet celebrity. Founder of the file sharing website Megaupload, Dotcom has been under surveillance and facing investigations for a while now. It has been a year since his mansion was raided and he was arrested. Consequently, charges of online piracy were leveled against... Read more
Strong sales of smartphones have helped Korean tech giant Samsung boost its fourth-quarter profits. The electronics specialist sold an estimated 63 million smartphones in the three-month period ending December 2012, helping company profits rocket by 76 per cent, compared to a year earlier. Net profit for the final... Read more
A ban making it illegal for Americans to unlock their smartphone, so it runs on more than one mobile network, has gone into effect. Smartphone users in the US now officially have to get permission to unlock their smartphone, following a ruling handed down by the Librarian of Congress... Read more
Pinterest Acquires Punchfork
Internet January 28, 2013
Pinterest, the photo and information sharing pinboard site, has recently acquired Punchfork. The online recipe, food blogger and social cooking website was created about 2 years ago by founder Jeff Miller and brings a visual Pinterest experience. Punchfork is linkable with many social networking sites such as Facebook and... Read more
Global technology giant Apple has unearthed more than 100 cases of child labor after an internal audit peeled back the layers of its supply chain. Apple’s 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, which highlights its 2012 findings from 393 audits at all levels of its supply chain, found 11 facilities... Read more
Google’s Autonomous Vehicles Could Be A Game Changer
Internet January 28, 2013
While Apple and Google continue their patent wars in the smartphone space, it may be Google’s autonomous (driverless) vehicles that propel the search giant to the head of the technology pack. Forbes‘ Chunka Mui brought up a good point in his post this week, writing: “The driverless car has broad... Read more
Belkin Announces Acquisition of Linksys
Internet January 28, 2013
Belkin just made an announcement on Thursday that it would be acquiring the home networking unit of Cisco, which includes Linksys and the current products and employees. This acquisition will give Belkin 30% of the small business and home network market. The company intends to honor all warranties and... Read more
A World Without Passwords?
Internet January 26, 2013
Earlier this week we covered the breaking news about Google looking to use alternatives for passwords. Lets take a closer look at what technology is involved. Passwords have long been viewed as a weakness within the world of digital security. Instead of passwords, Google engineers would propose to use... Read more