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News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious code on blog pages and... [23 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range?
Comment Unfortunately, the location was at a marina some 500 metres from the nearest wi-fi hotspot and no 3G signal was visible. In my lab I looked out a couple of old wireless routers and a wi-fi extender plus a wi-fi dongle. [15 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Written on the flight back to London and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in the lounge at Heathrow later the same day. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are... [09 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News Lilian Edwards, a law professor at the University of Southampton and author of the Pangloss blog, wrote on Tuesday she was "relieved" to have heard Harbour say he would accept further revision of the amendments if they were deemed to be too open... [09 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order "threatens to expose deeply private information" and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert... [04 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment Written in a London coffee shop with the five-bar signal problem and dispatched via a free wi-fi node later the same day. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. [13 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment Written on a rainy summer afternoon just four miles from my home in a local café with a free wi-fi service. At a recent conference I was describing how mobile devices would become even more indispensable if fitted with an accelerometer and other... [10 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi service. Some years ago I was struck by the amount of time people spent at my local supermarket trying to decide which pack of bacon to buy. [28 May 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News As Disruptive Analysis analyst Dean Bubley speculates, writing on his blog: "I wonder what you could do if you put a MediaFLO chip into a femtocell.either for receiving signals to create the equivalent of a parallel digital terrestrial network. [21 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St Station in London later the same day. Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. In the same vein I have attended conferences and company events over the past two years where the attendees have been given 4GB memory sticks, earphones, thumbprint... [14 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Symantec vulnerability researcher, Vikram Thakur, said in a blog post: "What's interesting about this is that we have yet to come across any spam that may result in people visiting these domains. W is for Wi-fi [07 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now... [29 Apr 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News Phorm was also criticised by security company F-Secure in a Tuesday blog post, which drew attention to Phorm's past work and reputation. In the blog post, F-Secure described Apropos as containing "one of the most widespread, malicious rootkits of... [18 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. It is now largely complete and, of course, bristles with technology: a new heating system, fire and burglar alarm, radio and TV, broadband and... [16 Apr 2008]
