Dragons’ Den serial entrepreneur Peter Jones CBE has sold one of his telecoms businesses, Wireless Logic, to ECI Partners, the UK mid-market private equity firm, and management for £38m. This is the third telecoms business that the star of Dragons’ Den has sold in the last year. In the last twelve months alone he has [...]
General Information Archive
26th August 2011
Don’t risk identity fraud on your Smartphone
There’s a good chance that if you shop on your Smartphone, scammers and hackers could steal your identity and personal information. This is because most Smartphone users store sensitive personal information on their phones, and then use unsecured public Wi-Fi networks to get online. It is thought that nearly 65 per cent of Smartphone users [...]
24th August 2011
New BBC iPlayer planned
The BBC has released an updated version of the iPlayer designed for televisions in a move that it’s hoped will broaden access to the catch-up service to those viewers who may be a bit less technologically minded. It is available from today on the PlayStation 3 games console, and is being adapted for an array [...]
17th August 2011
Google Chrome overtakes Firefox
It seems such a short time ago that Google Chrome was launched, it was in fact only three years ago, but now nearly one in four British internet users now use Chrome as their web browser. It is now the second most popular browser, overtaking Mozilla’s Firefox and quickly gaining ground on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [...]
14th August 2011
Copyright law overhaul
Individuals will be able to legally copy music and DVDS they own on to digital devices such as iPods and computers, under sweeping changes Britain’s “archaic” copyright laws. This mat come a great surprise to the vast majority who had no idea that they were breaking any laws by using a CD which they had [...]
5th August 2011
Anyone for 3D printing?
If you are a student at the Ravensbourne higher education college the answer to that question would be an emphatic yes. Ravensbourne’s students have access to 3D printers which they use for making rapid prototypes of their designs. Printing can take a while and often the machines are left to run overnight. But it is [...]
22nd July 2011
Google affected by malware
The discovery of some malware has prompted Google to warn more than a million internet users that their computer is infected with a virus that intercepts their web searches. The malicious software hijacks Google and other search requests and redirects them to websites that pay the cyber criminals behind the scam for traffic. If a [...]
16th July 2011
VOIP for iPad users
Are you an iPad user and would like to use voice over internet protocol, if so then you are in luck as one of the UKs leading VOIP providers Coms plc has today launched a VoIP telephone service that enables Apple iPad users to make and receive telephone calls over their internet connection. The service [...]
2nd July 2011
Internet saves the High Street
People have been predicting the death of the High Street for a number of years now, but it still lives on to fight another day and what a fight it is putting up! It has been said that the internet would kill off the High Street, but in fact it is the internet which is [...]
22nd June 2011
Anonymous strikes again
Saturday the infamous, international Internet hactivist collective known as Anonymous launched a successful DDoS attack against the Spanish National Police website. The attack is a direct response to the Friday arrests of three individuals alleged to be associated with acts of cyber civil disobedience attributed to Anonymous. The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for [...]