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How Facebook’s Paedophile Blocking Can Backfire

Facebook's blocking system is flawed, but linguistic and behavioural software can fix it, argues Tom Brewster

13 years ago

The USA Needs CISPA

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is not as bad as the Internet community might think, says Wayne Rash

13 years ago

BRICS To Cable The Southern Hemisphere

A 34,000 km submarine cable network linking five developing countries? Easy, says Andrew Mthembu of i3Africa

13 years ago

The Commoditisation Of Hacktivist Attacks

Off-the shelf software for DDoS attacks has brought the means of disruption to smaller pressure groups, says Eric Doyle

13 years ago

The Strange Story of Security’s Next Superstar

James Lyne is destined to be one of the biggest names in security. He might even become the industry's first…

13 years ago

Green Data Centres Could Run On Pig Manure

Google and Apple both look like using the same source to reduce their carbon emissions, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

Want to Avoid GCHQ Snooping? It’s As Simple As Using Skype

The myriad ways people can hide their web activity makes the government's overbearing legislation absurd, says Tom Brewster

13 years ago

Patent Struggles Replace The Browser Wars

If Netscape's patents are up for grabs, we need to watch the fact of SSL, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

Who’s Hacking Who In Cyber Wars Is Not The Real Concern

China gets the blame for being the cyber-warmongering nation but everybody's at it and its industry that takes the arrows…

13 years ago

BlackBerry’s Consumer Exit That Never Was

RIM is not abandoning consumers. Its plan to ride BYOD back into the enterprise may not work, but it is…

13 years ago

Nokia’s New Nano-SIM Should Beat Apple’s Cut-Up

ETSI should reject Apple's old-school cut-down nano-SIM in favour of innovation, says Max Smolaks

13 years ago

Data Centre Virtualisation Held Back For Want Of Security Skills

The race to cut costs and streamline data centres is leaving security issues behind as the challenges outstrip the native…

13 years ago

Brocade: Expect A Chassis Fabric Switch

Brocade is likely to produce a chassis-based fabric switch, Marcus Jewell tells TechWeekEurope

13 years ago

Hugh Herr: The Man Who Thinks Tech Can End Disability

Technology can wipe out disability, says MIT professor and amputee and climber Hugh Herr

13 years ago

HP Gets On The Long Path To Modernisation

New generation Web companies know the value of convergence, and old-school enterprises like HP are learning it, says Chris Preimesberger

13 years ago

Cory Doctorow: How Privacy Can Make Money

Privacy is a business opportunity, given the right technology foundations, says science fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow

13 years ago

Budget 2012: Osborne Forgets The Needs Of Tech

It's not what George Osborne said that was disappointing, it's what he left out, says Tom Brewster

13 years ago

Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?

George Osborne may be right to call the CRC cumbersome, but he needs to create something to take its place,…

13 years ago

The ‘New Dell’ Talks Public Sector Problems And HP’s Fall

We talk with Dell's Kevin Jones and Tim Sheppard about attacking the public sector market and its rivals' troubles.

13 years ago

The Real Cyber Challenge: Getting The Right People Into IT Security

The Cyber Security Challenge is more than a competition. It is a revelation of why there are so few IT…

13 years ago

Foxconn Criticisms Still Hold – Despite The Lies

Apple critic Mike Daisey made things up, but iPad manufacturer Foxconn still has a case to answer, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

Avast CEO: We’re Still Working On Making Freemium Services Work

We chat with Avast's CEO about what happened with iYogi and how to ensure partners don't cause embarrassment.

13 years ago

All Quiet On The iPad Front: In Pictures

Reporting from the front line, Max Smolaks describes empty stores, small queues, peace and goodwill

13 years ago

Channel Must Adapt To Cloud, Says New ChannelBiz Site

Big changes are coming in the channel, says ChannelBiz editor Mke Magee

13 years ago

What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

The acquisition of SonicWall gives Dell a powerful set of products and services to compete with Cisco, Juniper and HP,…

13 years ago

A Word With The Student Cyber Security Star

We talk with newly-crowned Cyber Security Champion, Jonathan Millican, about his victory and his plans for the future.

13 years ago

Email Mountains Contain Gold, Says Attachment Inventor

There's gold in our heaps of emails, says Nathaniel Borenstein, who delivered the email attachment 20 years ago today

13 years ago

Can Xeon E5s Keep Intel Ahead?

Intel’s new data centre systems chief Diane Bryant on keeping up with data centre demands and why Intel turned down…

13 years ago

CeBIT 2012: Merkel Warns Google’s Schmidt Over Privacy

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt's techno-utopian ideals were brought down to earth by the German Chancellor at the CeBIT fair says…

13 years ago

Apple Starts The Revolution With An iPad Evolution

Apple's replacement for the iPad 2 raises the stakes in visualisation but that's not a business driver, writes Eric Doyle

13 years ago