Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Data Security

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Yesterday there was yet another story in the news about the loss of sensitive data, this time records on all the prisoners in England and Wales as well as details on others with convictions were lost after a private company misplaced a memory stick. This is only the latest in a long line of ...

News of the World and Max Mosley

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Last week Max Mosley won his case against the News of the World over the invasion of his privacy, today he announced he was going to sue for libel after the judge in the case ruled that there was no Nazi theme. I am completely on the side of Mosley, what ...

The TechCrunch BBC Debate

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Over the past few months there has been talk of the BBC opening there content up to 3rd parties, this seems to have been spurred on my Mike Butcher the editor for TechCrunch UK in several different posts. Mike has been calling for a public debate on the matter and ...

Currys.digital store closures and DSG’s future

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Today the BBC have a news article on there site talking about the closure of 77 of the Currys.digital stores as there leases run out over the next 5 years. The Currys.digital stores used to be Dixon's before that brand abandoned there high street presence in favour of a web ...

Grangemouth Oil Refinery Closure

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The BBC have just reported that the Grangemouth refinery has closed, this is as the result of industrial action this weekend by employees. I first saw this story on the news last weekend when they were I believe interviewing the refinery boss. From watching the news coverage then and listening ...

The West vs China

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The whole China and the Olympics issue seems to be hotting up, earlier today TechCruch reported that a sports website The Sports Network serving data to CNN is currently down because of pro China hackers.   The wording on the notice above seems to imply it is the Chinese government behind this which is ...

China and the Olympics

Friday, April 18th, 2008

This post is probably a little late but still relevant given the on ongoing situation around the world. A couple of days ago there was an article on TechCrunch about Chinese Internet users showing their patriotism by including the phrase LOVE CHINA as there MSN Messenger screen name, where the LOVE is ...