Tag Archives: Data

Nov
24

74% of companies in line for IT disaster

malware A new survey has found that as many as 74% of organisations across Europe are not confident that they could fully recover in the event of an IT disaster. The European.. more
Nov
10

Kids social network data scandal

internet The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have agreed to settle charges with the operator of a social network for kids, after it was found the site collected information on the children.. more
Nov
01

97% of Three’s traffic is data

Three Logo Three has been spilling stats about its network usage and it turns out that the company has a very high rate of surfing usage as opposed to voice calls. In fact,.. more
Aug
24

Yale FTP data appeared on Google

43,000 people affiliated with US university Yale have discovered that their data had been appearing in Google search results due to a change in the way the search engine indexes FTP servers. Although it is unclear whether the data, which includes names and social security.. more
Aug
11

Google loses Spanish data battle

Google has failed in its attempt to stop the Spanish government forcing them to delete information regarding around 90 of its citizens from online indexes. Spain’s Data Protection Agency filed a complaint last year and Google was quick to challenge the order, which has now.. more
Aug
05

Mobile connections to hit 5.6bn

Mobile connections worldwide will shoot up to 5.6 billion this year according to a Gartner report. That means an 11 percent hike on the amount of connections to mobile services as compared to last year, says the research company. This means that the cash spent.. more
Jun
28

Two-thirds of smartphone holidaymakers clobbered by roaming charges

The Carphone Warehouse has published some smartphone research which indicates the extent to which holidaymakers are still caught out by roaming charges, even in these days of greater awareness of bill-shock. Four out of five smartphone owners who were questioned expected to use their handset.. more
Jun
27

Google reveals latest more detailed Transparency Report

Google has made its latest Transparency Report available online, which covers the period from July to December 2010. The company has also updated the report to be even more transparent (just in case it wasn’t see-through enough previously). The Transparency Report shows how many times.. more
Jun
13

T-Mobile data thieves fined £74,000

Two ex-staff of T-Mobile who stole and sold on customer data a few years back have been fined £73,700 at Chester Crown Court. David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to committing offences against Section 55 of the Data Protection Act last year. The pair’s.. more
May
13

Ofcom: 4G will deliver triple capacity gains over 3G

Which is better… 3G or 4G? Not a difficult question to answer, of course, but how much “better” is the latter? Ofcom has just published a piece of research which claims that the next-gen mobile network will offer more than 200% of the capacity current.. more