The Why of Spam...
Not the delicious and non-nutritious tinned pork product, but the unsolicited email. Spam has a long history: "On May 3, 1978, the Internet witnessed a glorious and not particularly welcome birth: The…
Tagged: privacy-issues
The obligatory Facebook IPO post....or...Hey! Zuckerberg! You're my bitch!
Well, despite the state of the world economy, Facebook finally managed it's IPO today and ended the day at roughly the same level as it launched at, having had a high point of about $42 and a start po…
Google Drive...to get your stuff.
I've always had the attitude that any company that has to remind it's staff to 'Do No Evil' is either employing the wrong sort of people or is trying hard to hide the fact that they might not be parag…
Left to Apple, 2014 could be like 1984...revisited...
Those of us of a certain age in IT will remember Apple's famous TV advert for the groundbreaking 'Macintosh' computer back in 1984. The advert, here on You Tube, portrayed how the Mac would free comp…
Wikileaks - 'Heat' magazine for the Political classes?
Hear me out on this one. I've been a political animal for over half my life; for me it came with the turf of being working class boy, avoids going down the pit by going to university, comes home and s…
A case of censorship and wrongful imprisonment?
This has absolutely nothing to do with Wikileaks. Or maybe it does. All stories like this have two sides, and it's inevitable that we only get to see one side of it - and perhaps therein lies the Wiki…
Google's 'mistake' maps all UK WiFi networks...
Some weeks ago, a story broke about Google recording data about WiFi networks when they were wandering around taking family snapshots with their now infamous fleet of 'Streetview' cars. At the time, …
Politically Correctly Dead
This story is desperately, tragically sad on a number of levels, and also makes me pretty angry. Read the story - unless you've had a very sheltered life (oh, working in the public sector or the hall…
Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Facebook would like you to share even more....
There's an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project. She does this by applying electric shocks to t…