Managing your reputation
Reputation management has become a big business recently with almost anyone looking to protect their reputation; they are often tempted to pay for services, which claim to do this for them, but with so many services available, which ones are the best?
Buzzlogic
Radian6
TNS Cymfony
Nielsen
Trackur
Brands Eye
Reputation Defender
Sentiment Metrics
Visible Technologies
Cision
These are considered to be the best all round [...]
George Michael track on Pirate Bay
Despite his personal problems George Michael is still a super star, yet it was back in 2004 when he said that he was never going to make another album for sale in the record stores, many fans would have gasped at that, but what he did say is that he would be giving his music [...]
December 23, 2008RIAA not suing just threatening
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been taking out lawsuits against file sharers for a long time; this is their way of protecting the copyright holders of the music etc.
But has this really done anything to prevent or stop the file sharers from doing what they do, the answer in short is no, [...]
Pirate Bay goes mobile
Despite the actions of the big corporations and in some cases governments the Pirate Bay sails on, not only are they able to assist the distribution of millions of files every day. However, they are as always thinking of ways to add to the services offered.
From now on users of the Pirate Bay will be [...]
Microsoft’s emergency patch
By now, many users of Microsoft will have received an emergency patch through the automatic download; this is supposed to fix the bug that has been affecting all versions of the company’s internet explorer browser from IE5 right up to the bets version of IE8.
The bug is said to allow attackers to get through the [...]
Pirate material helps BBC out
For broadcasters during the 1960’s the storage of programmes was not one of their top priorities, this is because these programmes were stored in tape and took up lot of space. Which is in stark contrast to today, where hundreds of hours of film could be stored on a hard drive?
Some early series are therefore [...]
Online censorship on the rise
When we talk of internet censorship, we naturally think of countries like China, Iran and other countries that have a past problem with human rights. Yet this is not necessarily, so with the rise of online journalism the amount of writers being put behind bars has increased.
More recently, there have been issues in Australia over [...]
One day hackers will attack Apples
For as long as anyone can remember an Apple computer appears to have had some sort of immunity from hacking and viruses, but as their market share increases, it seems that popularity could spark the end of that and it will soon become open season on the Apple computer.
Apple has been warning users that they [...]
Online Journalists are sent to jail more
It’s a hard life being a blogger these days, not only is there the comments and income to be worried about, it seems that being a blogger can actually get you put in jail.
In a recent report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it has been found that online journalists a group, which includes bloggers, [...]
Face recognition easy to fake
With the world having gone security crazy, can we actually rely on the systems put in place by the governments to protect us?
One of the main security methods is facial recognition, this has now found its way into the computing world, but obviously the system employed by a laptop is not going to be [...]
Is FaceBook about to spam?
For some people social networking has become a major part of their daily life, for others it is a useful networking tool, so what does the social networking site itself get out of all this.
The main source of income has to be advertising, but with money tight companies are looking for more impact for the [...]
Worm attack warning
Researchers at Microsoft are warning Windows users to install an emergency patch that they released last month, but it would seem that not users have done so yet, which is a cause for concern.
The company noticed more attacks last weekend, spiking during the mid week period, yet this worm which was spotted by software firm [...]