Monthly Archives: January 2008

Mebroot virus a danger to your computer?

There have been new warnings about a stealthy Windows virus that hides itself deep within Windows on your computer. Once installed it gives malicious users control of your computer and they can, for example, instal key loggers to capture your usernames and passwords, crdit card details etc., including login details

Should summer-born start school later?

BBC News is reporting today about the problems faced by summer-born youngsters at school. Ed Balls , the current schools secretary, launching a review of the primary school curriculum in England, wants greater flexibility for parents in when their children start school, so that it won’t necessarily be the case,

Facebook for Enterprise

Monday, January 7, 2008 Facebook for Enterprise worklight has announced a secure enterprise overlay for facebook, allowing workers to use all the social networking tools of facebook, whilst keeping sensitive company information behind a firewall. The blurb states that employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no

Shiftspace commissions

Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace is offering artist/software develper commissions. Ten development grants, of up to $2,000, will be granted to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform. From the ShiftSpace website: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how

Blue is the new green?

According to an article about trendspotting on the BBC website today, The Shape of Things to Come, all things “green” will be outmoded in 2008. But that’s not to say that environmental issues will not be important, far from it…. “Blue will be the new green, says the director of

The fate of a web prophet

Prophets are not always welcome. It can be difficult to make a great idea stick. In the 1990s I spent years trying to point out to writers and other individuals that the Internet and particularly the Web, was a great place to interact and could revolutionise the way they worked

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