Safe Internet Day- Connect with Respect
The theme for Safer Internet Day 2013 is Online Rights and Responsibilities with the slogan “Connect with Respect”.Safer Internet Day 2013 is taking place today…
Wall Street Journal latest victim of hacking from China
Hackers from China have infiltrated the computer systems of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) who has become the latest website to be attacked.The Journal says…
Samsung heads global mobile phone markets
Samsung accounts for a quarter of all mobile phones shipped worldwide last year- as its shipments rose nearly 20% to 396.5 million.Apple’s phone shipments grew…
How to record your phone calls
There is nothing new about voice recording per se – call centres and helplines have been recording customer conversations for years “for training purposes”, and…
Twitter launches Vine video sharing service
Twitter has launched Vine- which lets users embed six second videos within their tweets.The service was used first by Twitter boss Dick Costolo, who posted…
Have chip and pin cards had their day?
The search for a fraudproof credit card system means that the days of chip and pin cards- which we were told were fraudproof- may be…
A paperless NHS would save billions
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants the NHS to be paperless by 2018 – a move which a report says could help save the National…
U.S. online video rankings in December 2012
The U.S. online video rankings for 2012 showed that 182 million American internet users watched 38.7 billion online content videos in December 2012, while video ad…
U.S. search engine rankings for 2012
The US search engine rankings have been released for 2012- with somewhat predictable results.Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in December with…
U.S. online winter spending grows 14pc to $42.3 billion
$42.3 billion was spent online during the entire November-December holiday shopping season, marking a 14 percent increase from 2011.The latter portion of the season saw…