Oct 10, 2010
here at the Gadget grill we are strong advocates of data security, and of ensuring that you maintain good passwords to help you to protect your online presence. This week a story came to light about a teenager in the UK who has been jailed for refusing to divulge his computer password to the police. 19 years old Oliver Drage has apparently been sentenced to 4...
Oct 10, 2010
One of the charming aspects of touring through the UK is that of visiting some of the castles and estates, many of which have mazes of varying difficulty. And the operators of those mazes have noticed a significant decline in the time being taken by their patrons in completing the challenge of the maze, and the reason for this is that these patrons have been...
Oct 10, 2010
Internet Explorer’s usage across the web continues to drop, and it is now being used for less than 50% of all web traffic. Firefox continues to hold about 30%, but Google’s Chrome has tripled its share to about 11.5%. I would expect that a major part of the remainder of that erosion would also be due to the impact of devices like the iPhone and...
Oct 3, 2010
Or at least, using the internet to help reduce traffic jams. In metropolitan Boston, the MIT has been running a project, CarTel, which has been tracking the driving patterns of GPS-equipped taxis. In moving traffic, those vehicles all represent moving nodes on a network that happen to be drifting in and out of close contact with one another. The CarTel project...
Oct 3, 2010
One of the biggest risks now facing computer users is that of link poisoning. New research findings from the Websense Security Labs has found that it doesn’t matter how careful you are, typically, you may be only two clicks away from malicious content with the outcome being an infected computer or network. Cybercriminals are increasingly poisoning search...
Oct 3, 2010
We’ve all heard about the mammoth problems that Virgin Blue have been suffering with their computer systems this past week. While I have lots of sympathy for their long-suffering customers, I have less than no sympathy whatsoever for Virgin Blue and their arrogant, silly attitude in refusing to accept that they’re suffering problems. During my...