GCHQ recruiting Generation Xbox for spy jobs
Up to 100 members of “Generation Xbox” will be offered a career by GCHQ security services under a scheme announced by Foreign Secretary William Hague.The…
Snoopers Charter Communications Bill will uncover wrong targets warns data watchdog
Plans to monitor all Britons’ online activity risk uncovering “incompetent criminals and accidental anarchists” rather than serious offenders, the Information Commissioner has warned.Ministers want to…
US prepares first use cyber strike
Cyber strikes could inflict as much damage on the US as the physical attacks on 11 September 2001- the US defence secretary has warned.Leon Panetta…
Facebook UK makes loss
Facebook’s UK business made a loss last year.Facebook also joins the list of those companies which some may accuse of tax dodging as they paid…
Google closes book scanning lawsuit
Google has closed a seven year legal lawsuit with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).The legal battle started in 2005 after Google announced a plan…
ICO data watchdog starts cookie crackdown
Websites which do not comply with new red tape on collecting cookie data from online customers will be contacted within weeks by the Information Commissioner’s…
How to create better health sector websites
Like any online experience NHS health websites must be built around it’s users’ needs- in this case patients.They need to be much more clear and…
Data breaches numbers increases by 10 times
Data breaches in the UK have increased ten fold in the past five years- figures from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveal.In local government the…
Controversial start for 4G start in the UK
UK’s telecoms regulator Ofcom has authorised Everything Everywhere- the company which owns Orange and T-Mobile, to use its existing bandwidth to launch fourth generation (4G)…
Apple’s billion dollar smartphone win over Samsung- is Microsoft the real winner?
As the ramifications from the US court judgement that Samsung has to pay Apple £665 million ($1.05 billion) in damages for infringing intellectual property settle,…