A report by the USA's FBI says that internet crime in 2007 was the worst so far.
InfoTech: Asia Domain land rush ends
The landrush phase of the launch of the .asia top level domain ended today. The results of the auction are amusing.
Infotech: Social networking - killer app or just killer?
The news that AOL is to spend USD850 million to buy Bebo, which began life as a student-orientated social networking site, emphasises the importance that companies are attaching to this medium. What are the pros and cons of the phenomenon?
Infotech: The Net's not working as expected.
The whole design of the internet was supposed to make it so that a break in one place would mean that communications continued to work. After recent cable breaks disrupted global traffic, YouTube says that its latest problems arose with an ISP i...
Internet: ICANN plans to block domain scams
ICANN ("Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers")'s system to help consumers is being exploited by fraudsters and others, resulting in expense to registrars and problems for "real" internet users."
It's a good way to get headlines, but surely the British government's plan to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet is unworkable.
Tech Support: a plea to del.icio.us
An open letter to del.icio.us from someone who should know better proving that even the tech aware stuff up on the most basic aspects of using a...
