Monthly archive for April 2008
New Google Software To Protect Children
Posted Wednesday 16th April 2008 by Catherine
A new software program from Google promises to help in the fight against child pornography. It is designed to track child sex predators by searching for patterns in images of abuse on the net.
Created for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), this is a program that was originally designed to block copyrighted videos but is being used to help in the much needed protection of children.
BT Argues for Changes to the Current USO
Posted Monday 14th April 2008 by Tom P
BT has complained to the communications regulator Ofcom over plans to roll out a high speed fibre connections network. The crux of the issue is the Universal Service Obligation or USO. This USO regulation ensures that BT must supply phone lines to all areas of the UK whilst giving discounts to low income households and keeping the public phone network operable. BT want to waiver this regulation, especially considering the billions of pounds it will cost them to upgrade the nation’s network to high speed fibre optics.
Human Rights Protect Internet Piracy
Posted Monday 14th April 2008 by Catherine
In another strange development from the realms of ‘human rights’ laws comes the news that European politicians have rejected a recommendation to cut off internet users who persistently break the law by way of piracy.
Fortunately, the EU recommendations are just that and hold no force over individual governments and the measures they wish to take. France has been seen to be taking strong actions against criminals of this type with the news that they are making net firms become anti-piracy watchdogs.
Broadband To Be Obsolete Within A Decade
Posted Friday 11th April 2008 by Catherine
I know people that are still on dial up internet connections. These philistines don’t know what they’re missing out on with the speeds of Broadband. And just when it’s coming to the point of Broadband being the norm, sneaking up behind is a system that could see the internet as we know obsolete within a decade.
The Grid, as it is currently known, is the brainchild of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. It has come about as a virtual sideline to another major project that the physicists were working on.
Bands Perform In Virtual Lands
Posted Friday 11th April 2008 by Swapna
Online social networking programme Second Life has seen the likes of Leo Wolff, aka Slim Warrior, perform live in a virtual world with her music band. Wolff first joined the online world in 2005, having bought a small plot of land with eight other fellow musicians. This followed with the opening of Virtual Garage, which displayed their music and saw performances.
MySpace Vying For TV Audiences
Posted Friday 11th April 2008 by admin
Moving away from the net and into a more widely available global market comes News Corps MySpace with their latest venture into the TV market. In a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s daughter that will see MySpace distributing their web shows on television and DVD’s outside the United States, the move sees Myspace using the media platform to the full and showing itself to be head and shoulders above their rival, Facebook.
Speculation backs Microsoft to be the Yahoo bid winner
Posted Friday 11th April 2008 by Tom P
It seems as the rumours surrounding the Microsoft bid for Yahoo will not be laid to rest just yet. Wall St Analysts are sure that Microsoft will eventually win the battle for the search engine, even if this may mean a conglomeration with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. As the bid is such a huge figure; £21 billion ($42.3 billion), it is unsurprising that Microsoft have had to broker a deal with a rival. It was estimated for Microsoft to foot the bill alone it would have meant borrowing beyond their means and while they would have certainly made the money back in time, the easier option was to combine forces with an external interest.
Malicious Programs Increase To One Million
Posted Thursday 10th April 2008 by Swapna
Viruses, worms and Trojans that have circulated across the net have reached an all time high of one million, the highest number of malicious programme to date. Security firm Symantec revealed in its bi-annual report, that most of these malicious programmes have been created in the last 12 months. The Latest Symantec reportedly detected approximately 499,811 malicious code threats during the second half of 2007. This had increased in the first half of 2007 by 136%.
Update On Microsoft Versus Yahoo
Posted Thursday 10th April 2008 by Catherine
The wrangling over Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo continues today with more tactics being deployed by both sides.
Yahoo have enlisted the help of Google in a bid to stave off a hostile takeover by Microsoft and the two have joined in an experimental drive that will see them share advertising space for two weeks. Three per cent of the search results on Yahoo will see a Google ad beside them and this is reportedly either to frustrate Microsoft or force them to up their offer.
BBC and Nintendo Wii Partnership
Posted Thursday 10th April 2008 by Tom P
With complaints rife from ISPs that the BBC iPlayer service is at risk of overloading the dilapidated internet network by being too popular, news has arisen that the BBC are to team up with Nintendo and put the iPlayer on Wii Channels. The popularity of the iPlayer has been outstanding in terms of personal computer users; whilst this marks the first time that the service will be available on a games console.
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