As the deadline looms for the EU Cookie Directive on 26 May we have finally been issued with a code of conduct which aims to clarify what’s expected of website owners and lays down the penalties for those who breach it. Unsurprisingly it hasn’t come from the
Read more →This week Google has announced a new feature to its product suite which gives individual users an overview of their activity month on month. Account Activity will be linked to your Google account and will summarise all of your activity including number of emails sent, most popular
Read more →The last week has seen a deluge of articles flooding news sites and social network talking about the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills currently being proposed by the House of Representatives. I wouldn’t recommend trying to read the documents
Read more →Google responds to privacy laws in Germany. While the big brains are still knocking their heads together over the new privacy laws, Hamburg’s data protection commissioner, Johannes Caspar, is already making strides to force local companies to comply. Caspar has been working with Google’s Germany HQ,
Read more →Online security It may not be terribly exciting but online security is hitting the headlines almost every day. It’s hard to tell if security is getting lax or if the stories are just generating more interest on the back of each other. This week it was the
Read more →Is this the end of the iPod? Ipod sales have dwindled significantly over the past six months and Apple seems to have been happy to let the product slide in favour of its iPad and Macbook products. With the popularity of cloud based music software such as
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