There are 112 articles posted by Tracey Rodger
posted on 16 January 2012
It seems that the issue of piracy is being
given more and more attention as a British IT student, also known
as the mastermind behind TVShack, has been given
five years in a federal prison shortly after a judge said he could
be forced to go to the US to be charged for piracy and infringing
copyrights.
As a quick reminder, TVShack was ... [read more]
posted on 13 January 2012
PwC has recently reported that almost a half of
all public sector organisations in 36 countries have suffered from
economic crime, especially employee and supplier fraud as well as
cyber criminal activity.
In more detail, 46 per cent reported that they experienced being
crime targets, which is a vast growth from 2009's 37 per cent.
... [read more]
posted on 10 January 2012
If you are a PlayBook owner, you might remember
that you had to sync it with your BlackBerry in order to use email
via RIM's (Research in Motion) tablet
computer.
No more. The troubled tech firm has issued an update to its
operating systems (both to its tablet and smartphone) which will
see the light of the day next month.
The scoo... [read more]
posted on 04 January 2012
Hitwise has recently reported that social media
platform Google+ has had some record breaking
traffic throughout last month.
According to the traffic calculating website, the social network
got most of its clicks from the US which scored a 55 per
cent growth that allowed the site to reach 49m hits.
It has been said that the increase... [read more]
posted on 21 December 2011
Good news comes to Apple as it has recently won
one of a thousand, as it seems, patent cases against
Android-based tech giants such as Samsung and
HTC.
On this occasion, HTC was the manufacturer which lost
the fight, as the US International Trade Commission (ITC)
said that some of Android's features available on the maker's
handset w... [read more]