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Sometimes, my conscience gets the better of me. This time, it's about social networking. I seem to write so much and so often about the pitfalls of Facebook, Twitter et al that I feel compelled to write something positive about it too, based on...
24 March 2014
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Thankfully, many parents these days are aware that cyberbullying is an issue their children will likely face when they’re online. But do they really have a sense how just wild and rabid cyber space can be? The internet provides a sense of...
21 March 2014
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Under our remit as the UK’s independent authority for upholding information rights in the public interest, at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) we have created a series of lesson plans and resources to give teachers the opportunity to...
10 February 2014
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Like the music chart, there's also a list of the top passwords used every year. Released by password management company SplashData, unlike the music chart it lists not the Top 40 but the Top 25 passwords used in that year. In common with the music...
27 January 2014
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Tablets ... smartphones ... apps. With the PC market in freefall and even laptops being fairly and squarely relegated by tablets and hybrid devices, they seem to be all everyone's buying these days. And if the news is to be believed, that includes a...
17 January 2014
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So now you can buy a tablet in the UK for £30, with the launch of the UbiSlate 7Ci. £30 ... and just in time for Christmas! The surge of Low-cost tablets This follows a rash of new launches designed presumably, to get everyone online everywhere....
17 December 2013
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Me, I'm not a great lover of I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here any more. I used to be for the first couple of seasons, but like Masterchef and so many other similar programmes that are perenially successful, they become 'same old, same old' and I...
22 November 2013
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Back in July, the UK’s intelligence agencies MI5 and GCHQ urged the country’s FTSE 350 companies to take part in a cyber-governance health check. The aim of the campaign? Incentivise large companies to ramp up their online security, following...
19 November 2013
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