Miscellaneous
Tue, 12/01/2010 - 14:46 | David
A Conservative peer has proposed that search engines should be exempt from copyright infringement laws brought in with the new Digital Economy Bill.
A document posted on the official parliament website has shown a list of 299 proposed amendments to the bill including one from Lord Lucas stating:
“Every provider of a publicly accessible website shall be presumed to give a standing and non-exclusive license to providers of search engine services to make a copy of some or all of the content of that website, for the purpose only of providing said search engine services.”
Tags: Wed, 06/01/2010 - 08:53 | David
The Carbon Trust has awarded a £454,000 grant to a company developing technology that could see light-emitting wallpaper appearing on the shelves by 2012.
Lomox Limited was awarded the grant based on its work with organic LED technology, which has a wide range of potential applications. The two-year-old company, based in North Wales, claims it can have the first commercial lighting products using the technology ready by 2012.
Mon, 14/12/2009 - 12:38 | David
Wales has won £44.27 million in funding to create a high performance computing centre.
Aside from access to cutting edge computing, HPC Wales will offer consultancy services to local businesses, as well as providing training.
It will be based out of the University of Swansea and the University of Cardiff, and is expected to create 400 new jobs in the high-tech sector.
Sat, 12/12/2009 - 14:10 | David
The UK has ranked third in a new ICT sustainability chart, behind Japan and the US.
The UK tied for third alongside Brazil, France, Germany in the IDC ICT Sustainability Index.
Tue, 08/12/2009 - 22:52 | David
Dramatic changes in the way companies do business will have a big impact on what they need to secure themselves, according to Cisco.
In Cisco’s annual report, the use of social media for workers to interact with each other was seen as a key issue for security.
Mon, 30/11/2009 - 22:15 | David
A pub has reportedly been fined £8,000 after a customer downloaded copyrighted material on its Wi-Fi connection.
The managing director of Wi-Fi hotspot provider, The Cloud, said that the fine had been levied in a civil case this summer, following a successful prosecution by the rights holder. The Cloud declined to name the pub involved, but the provider has contracts with pub chains including Fullers, Greene King and Punch Taverns.
Thu, 26/11/2009 - 10:31 | David
A study has revealed that Wikipedia lost 49,000 of its contributors in the first three months of 2009.
The figure comes courtesy of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, which created software to track the edits made by three million active Wikipedia contributors in ten different languages.
The findings are particularly alarming, as the study claims that in same period of 2008 the online encyclopaedia lost only 4,900 people.
Thu, 19/11/2009 - 15:10 | David
The government has announced it will make Ordnance Survey map data available online free of charge from next year.
Starting in April 2010, the public will be able to openly access not only the maps, but interpretive geographical data such as crime, health and education statistics by postcode.
Mon, 16/11/2009 - 13:12 | David
The police have issued a stark warning for internet users and particularly job seekers to avoid ‘too-good-to be-true’ money making schemes, which could turn them into criminals.
Cyber criminals are turning users into ‘money mules’, where they transfer money illegally gained from UK bank accounts to other countries.
Fri, 06/11/2009 - 10:27 | David
Search giant Google is coming clean over the amount of personal data it holds on its users.
Dubbed Google Dashboard, the service allows users to log in and find all the personal information held about them in Google's myriad applications, including Gmail, YouTube, Blogger and several more.
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