Bank details found on eBay
Anyone looking on eBay will know that there are hundreds of computers for sale and that when buying second-hand computer you never really know what you are going to get.
In this case a laptop sold for a mere £35 actually contained the personal details of over a million bank customers, this is included name, address, [...]
Olympics is the most viewed event in the USA
The Olympic Games is always a big draw in the US, this probably has something to do with the amount of medals they always win, and they walked away with a hundred and ten this time, more than anyone else did.
However, surprisingly the Beijing Olympics has been drawing an extra ordinary amount of viewers. [...]
The business of data
Information has always been a source of power, which is probably why governments used to like to keep files. Not the good thing about files is that it is virtually impossible to lose the whole lot. However, as technology continues to advance data becomes more portable.
The problem now is that portable storage is now so [...]
The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Roads could be a source of power
Anyone will know that when they were children and played outside, the roads during the summer got really hot. This has finally been realised by the science community who believe that this could be a brilliant source of power.
The idea is to lay conductive copper piping before a new asphalt (Black Top) is laid. They [...]
Bee deaths threaten food supplies
This is not the first time that the subject of the declining population of the UK’S bee’s has once again become news, this time because of the results from a survey that has been conducted by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) which show that the nations bee population has fallen again.
This may seem like a [...]
Business can learn from sport
There is some things that business people can learn from sports people, as they both have similar goals and need the same qualities but that is where the similarities end. Therefore, there are some things that sports and business people have in common.
However, are there any tips that the business world could learn from the [...]
China set to lead manufacturing
Next year will be the year that China overtakes the USA as the biggest manufacturer of goods, this was always going to happen, but the experts had initially predicted that this would actually be taking place in four years time.
The main reason for this jump is being put down to the economy in the US [...]
The cloud changing business
Cloud computing is term that is becoming ever more popular these days, mainly because of the introduction of mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. This has helped employees of companies to work either from home or in the field.
The Cloud are applications which are server based, this means that remote staff are able to login wherever they [...]
Dollar still struggles against the Peso
As oil prices begin to slow down, in fact, there has been a slight decrease in the price of a barrel of crude, however the US Dollar is still struggling against most international currencies but what is truly painful for the American is that the Mexican Peso is continuing to get stronger against the Dollar.
At [...]
Japan ignores Facebook and MySpace
Although Japan has an online advertising market of some £3 billion per year, but it seems their different way of life and idea of what is good is affected some of the west’s more popular money making machines, but why would that be?
It is not that social networking is not a happening over there, they [...]