The UK has been diving down a path of restricting free speech for the past decade. But two recent examples bring the harsh reality of a potential police state (and we do not use that phrase lightly) in the making.
Internet: US start-up plans to aid consumers in securing "best price" after purchases
Many retail outlets offer a price-match guarantee. A US startup, nosaleisfinal.com, aims to make the process of checking price-match data as easy as can be.
Comms: Skype leaves HTC Froyo users out in the cold
Is it coincidental that just as HTC makes Froyo available for e.g. the Desire, Skype's "Get Skype for Android 1.1 and above" link stops working - and then within days Microsoft launches Windows 7 mobile. What's the betting Windows user...
IT Security: Patent for system to prevent viruses spreading within intranets
D-Link, one of a handful of true market leaders in networking equipment, has been granted a UK patent for a new system that has the capability of blocking the spread of a virus within an intranet.
Comms: Microsoft buys mobile market monopoly - maybe
Expect an advertising blitz for Microsoft's Windows 7 for Mobile. Scratch that - try to avoid an advertising blitz.. For although the formal launch was yesterday, showroom walls were already plastered the day before and phone companies were gett...
Health Plans, Inc, a third party administrator of health and benefit plans, has agreed to pay USD275,000 to settle claims made by the Business So...
IT security: Fake ad, fake program download and virus combine to cause problems
It's impossible to feel anything but sympathy for New Zealand auction site Trade Me - but the message from their problems is that any website own...
InfoTech: Sony gets not too heavy over Lemmings iPhone port
In what must rate as one of the nicest threatening letters ever sent, Sony Europe has demanded that software developer Aaron Ardiri abandons its...
IT Security: USA's FBI arrests 100 in cyberfraud ring
The cyber-thieves were smart, says the FBI. Instead of targeting corporations and large banks that had state-of-the-art on-line security, they we...
Comms: T-Mobile - Stupid is as Stupid does.
On 4th August, we published an open letter to T-Mobile in the absence of any success in dealing with the customer (dis)services channel. We promp...
