This week there have been a couple of things in the news about hackers accessing passwords. First LinkedIn were targeted and then eHarmony and Last.fm suffered a similar fate. Also this week, Mitt Romney was compromised when someone managed to access his Hotmail and Dropbox accounts. The LinkedIn passwords of 6.5 million users were posted online but in [...]
Recently I have been supporting the cause of a student from Sheffield Hallam University who is facing extradition to the USA on charges of Copyright Infringment (you’ve probably seen it in the news). This was for a website which he set up a few years ago, before he started University which enabled users to share [...]
A new directive from the EU on websites which use cookies could have massive consequences for thousands of businesses due to lack of awareness of the law and the resulting fines. The EU Privacy Directive relating to this was first introduced in May 2011 and at the time it was argued that businesses in EU [...]
Most people became aware of the SOPA and PIPA debate earlier this week when jessicazeun.com and many other websites went dark or displayed an alternative page for 24 hours in an attempt to draw attention to the issue. The most prominent site to do this was Wikipedia raising a cry from students all over the [...]
I have been asked a few times about QR codes so I thought it was about time I wrote a blog post about them. If you don’t have a smartphone then QR codes are fairly useless to you, however as there are already 6.2 million smartphone users in the UK and smartphones now represent almost [...]
The mass adoption of smart phones such as the iPhone and android based phones like the Samsung Galaxy S are providing people with instant access to information and social networking from any location.
There seems to be lots happening with Twitter at the moment, the recent OAUTH changes resulted in lots of people telling me they had problems with twitter applications on their phones (in particular the iphone) and today I logged on to the main twitter.com website to find a massive change is happening to the user [...]
I finally got around to sorting out my new website this week and in the spirit of “practising what you preach” I decided that I really should start writing a blog. So here it is. I will be posting as often as is practical and hope you will enjoy and benefit from my ramblings, updates, [...]
