Tag Archives: Tech Blog

Nov
23

Google dumps Wave and Knol

Google Logo Google is engaging in a bit of what it calls out of season spring cleaning, or indeed autumn cleaning, sweeping away a number of products and initiatives which haven’t worked out.. more
Jun
15

MoD warns forces personnel: Careful what you tweet

The Ministry of Defence has warned forces personnel to be aware of what they’re posting online. It has released a couple of YouTube videos to illustrate the point that the Internet.. more
May
30

Fresh privacy controversy as council gets names from Twitter

A new can of privacy worms has been opened up with the revelation that South Tyneside council has successfully obtained user data from Twitter via a US court. The council went.. more
May
06

Sony says final internal testing underway with PSN

Sony has provided another update on the PSN situation on the official PlayStation blog. The company’s network and security teams have begun the “final stages” of internal testing of its new security system. New measures drafted in include more defensive software monitoring and firewalls, along.. more
Apr
28

Guardian Local blogs to be closed

The Guardian Local project is to be closed down, the newspaper has announced. Launched a year ago, it consists of three blogs which cover Leeds, Cardiff and Edinburgh, with a focus on community news. The Guardian called it an “experiment in new models of local.. more
Mar
04

WordPress gets hit by major denial of service attack

Blogging site WordPress.com was struck by a large-scale DDoS attack yesterday afternoon (our time). It began at just before 10am, US time, when WordPress posted the following message: “WordPress.com is currently being targeted by a extremely large Distributed Denial of Service attack which is affecting.. more
Feb
18

Google Social Search updated

Google has extended the scope of the Social Search functions of its engine. Social results from friends’ updates on the likes of Twitter, YouTube, or personal blogs and sites will be now be mixed in with the search results Google returns. Previously, they were tucked.. more
Jan
10

OFT moves against Twitter celeb endorsements

When is a tweet not a tweet? When it’s a thinly veiled promotional attempt at endorsing a product by a celebrity who has been paid to do so. The Office of Fair Trading has issued a statement which makes the point that online advertising and.. more
May
19

UK Internet use up 65% since 2007

UKOM, the UK Online Measurement organisation, has compiled its figures for the Internet usage of Britons for the month of April 2010, comparing it to April 2007. And the headline news is that Brits now spend 65% more time online. A total of 884 million.. more
Dec
03

Blogging kids are more literate

A survey conducted by the National Literacy Trust claims that children should be encouraged to blog and use sites like Facebook to help improve their literacy. Of the 3000 school children involved in the research, 56% had a social networking profile of some sort, and.. more