By Richard Catto
This month Google announced via its official blog that it would no longer be co-operating with China over the issue of filtering search engine results on Google.cn (which is the localised Chinese version of Google's search engine)...
Those of you who use Safari might already know about the PornPrivate Browsing button. You simply click it and while the feature is on, you will leave no trace. No cookies, no temporary files and no awkward link history popping up when you type in URL...
When it comes to passwords, there are two objectives we need to achieve.
Passwords need to be secure and easily remembered and accessible.
In today’s climate of multiple logins to our social networks, websites, banks, email, etc, we tend to g...
Over the last few weeks, we have seen a set of incredibly uncomplicated and simple attacks effectively compromise several hundred South African web pages, and several million internationally. Many of the South African sites compromised were important...
Facebook, bless it, has (dare I say it? ) revolutionised the online world for many people. Parents in particular. In addition to worrying about what their offspring get up to when they're supposed to be at school, en route to and from school, hanging...
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Norwegian Opera Software company. It is a high quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded internet products. The Opera browser offers the u...
The past two years we saw the rise of the social networks. A new site sprouts up at least once a week. If you read what some of the early adopters are saying, you get the feeling that people are tired of signing up for every new service every time. ...
Identity management (IdM) has become a buzz phrase in the industry surrounded by more confusion than facts and experience. So what exactly is an identity and why do we need to manage it?
An identity consists of attributes describing a person -- ty...
I've been covering IT, and its newer acronym, ICT, for nearly ten years. In that time I've had the joy of watching the trends go around, and around. I've watched hype become reality, usually in a far longer time period than the vendors would like, an...
It's very tempting to think that your piece of software is very unique. In fact, why would you have a need for this software, if someone else thought about it already?
As the old saying goes: "There's nothing new under the sun." And it's quite tru...
