Category: Internet
Barclays touts secure online banking with PINsentry
Barclays will start sending out handheld Chip and PIN readers to its online banking customers later this year to help prevent fraud. The PINsentry reader works with customers' normal debit card and PIN, and will be required for certain transactions…
UK drops out of 'dirty dozen' spam list
Back in July last year, the UK was in 10th place on the spam "dirty dozen" list of countries with the worst record on sourcing and distributing spam email. For the first quarter of 2007, it dropped to 13th place…
British Internet users wasting time 'wilfing' online
A new report suggests that two out of three UK Internet users waste significant portions of time to irrelevant web browsing. "Wilfing" is one of those irritating new technology-related acronyms that means "What Was I Looking For?", and occurs when…
Thai government blocks YouTube after video clip insults monarch
The Thailand government blocked access to YouTube yesterday after it complained that a short video clip on the site was insulting to 79-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej. YouTube apparently turned down a request to remove the 44-second video which depicted graffiti-like…
Online news site uses humans to find the good local stories
People reading news online may have a greater attention span, but that's not helped if the site's they're using are plagued with spam and junk stories. One online news aggregator, Topix, already has special software to help filter out spam…
Recreating album art for the digital age
WIRED magazine has an interesting article about how the advent of music downloads are changing not only how we play and store tracks, but also how the concept of the album cover is changing. No longer can artists assume that…
Yahoo! to offer unlimited mail storage
In a first for a web-based email service (unless you know different), Yahoo! is to offer unlimited email storage to all of its users. It comes as Yahoo! reaches the ripe old age of 10. That's a long time online….
Microsoft reveal mobile Internet browser prototype
Microsoft has unveiled a prototype mobile Internet browser which it claims will mirror the ease of going online via a desktop PC. Deepfish aims to solve the problems of slow loading, unintuitive pages that look different to what the user…
Greater attention span for those reading news online
A new study, the EyeTrack07 survey by the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism school, found that those who read news from online sources have a greater attention span than those who read traditional printed news. Online readers read 77% of…
SonyBMG turn to the power of blogs for music demos
It seems that the humble demo tape – even the demo CD – is on its last legs. SonyBMG has said that from Monday it will no longer accept music demos in hard copy formats. Instead, musicians hoping to grab…