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Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment When you take into account that navigational search - where users search for a specific brand name - is on the up and up, the potential impact on trademark owners could be significant. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer

News Big-name computer makers are still scheduled to have to stop selling models with Windows XP installed by the end of June. While Microsoft ponders yet another stay of execution for Windows XP, it's readying a new version of Windows, being developed...

Tags: vista, xp, windows, microsoft

[24 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced window that...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News So if you want to find out what happens, 419 style, then read on… silicon.com's new columnist on the block has also been drawing plenty of eyeballs - perhaps partly because the name of said columnist is 'The Naked CIO'.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage

Photo The chip contains information about the passenger - including their name and route they are taking. Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai.

Tags: rfid, luggage, heathrow, trial

[14 Feb 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment This change of name had already happened in its marketing years ago but Apple was underlining its rise as a major player in markets other than computing: personal technology, media distribution and telecoms.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling

News The missing information consisted of the owner's name and address and details of the vehicle, including its make, model, colour, registration and chassis number. Transport secretary Ruth Kelly then gave a statement to Parliament about the loss of...

Tags: gov, dva, law, hmrc

[18 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07

Round-Up The missing information consists of the owner's name and address and details of the vehicle - including its make, model, colour, registration and chassis number. We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and...

Tags: mobile, dva, facebook, data

[14 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...

Comment As we saw with yesterday's announcments on phone records, this government wants to track and record every aspect of our lives, and hand it out to almost anyone who asks, all in the name of anti-terrorism and anti-crime.

[04 Oct 2007]

Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps

News It's not quite ready - starting from today customers will be able to put in their name to be part of a beta testing programme expected to begin later this year. In addition to Google's effort, which as of earlier this month also includes...

Tags: google, hosted, web apps, microsoft

[01 Oct 2007]

Trojan targets companies' top brass

News The emails included the company name in subject field, purporting to be a recruitment company. Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware-infected RTF attachments have been recorded over a 16-hour period this month.

Tags: social engineering, malware, trojan

[26 Sep 2007]

Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'

Comment This personal information is defined by the legislation as an individual's name in combination with other specific pieces of information, when either the name or the other information is not encrypted.

Tags: law, data, full disclosure

[03 Sep 2007]

Help plug the data leaks - sign the e-petition

News You can find the e-petition here, where you can add your name and make your voice heard. Earlier this month silicon.com launched its Full Disclosure campaign, calling for a rethink of existing government policy on when companies should report leaks...

Tags: data security, full disclosure

[30 Jul 2007]

Photos of the month - July 2007

Photo These days data centres come in all shapes and sizes - shipping containers, ex-MoD bunkers, you name it. Book publisher Penguin joined the Second Life party this month by running a series of events in the virtual world for the launch of a new novel...

Tags: green it, data centres, mash-ups, second life

[27 Jul 2007]

Facebook facing "app fatigue"

News At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup in New York, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag.

Tags: facebook

[18 Jun 2007]

Ask revamps its search site

News The results page is divided into three sections, thus the new name for the site: 'Ask3D'. I don't think this change alone is going to bolt them into being a top tier player. On the other hand, I think a lot of people are going to find that this is...

Tags: search, google, ask

[05 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: My home wi-fi network - in search of fun

Comment One network that isn't has an unusual name (BTW I advise a gobbledegook of jumbled letters and numbers, nothing that can link it to your address or name). A press release earlier this month from security testing outfit NTA Monitor told me something...

Tags: network security, wep, wi-fi

[17 May 2007]

From CIO to consultant: First impressions count

Comment Domain name Up to half the traffic on my blog is generated by people who have either clicked on a link I sent them or Googled my name or company name. This is not necessarily to rant about things that annoy you on a daily/hourly basis as the really...

Tags: voip, domain name, skype, business cards

[16 May 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: How green is your phone?

Comment While these ideas are aimed at the developing world where traditional powerlines are at a premium, there's no reason such renewable technologies can't be employed in the UK or the US - once again, it's down to the mobile industry to strip away the...

Tags: environment, green, upwardly mobile

[14 May 2007]

Ubuntu and Intel ready to take tablets

News Intel is not the latest big name to take an interest in Ubuntu. Techies will be working on the new mobile operating system at the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week in Seville, following the creation of the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project, which...

Tags: intel, tablet, ubuntu

[09 May 2007]

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