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IP Camera Security Issues

January 18, 2011 – 8:29 pm | One Comment

Zeljka Zorz writes that “Unsecured IP cameras accessible to everyone”. In the article Tom Connor of ars technica explains ” “Once an IP camera is installed and online, users can access it using its own individual internal or external IP address, or by connecting to its NVR (or both),” explains Connor. “In either case, users need only load a simple browser-based applet (typically Flash, Java, or ActiveX) to view live or recorded video, control cameras, ... Read More

BBC iPlayer Breaks Christmas Records

January 18, 2011 – 2:21 pm |

BBC iPlayer broke records for the third month in a row, topping over 145 million requests for programmes during December 2010. This new record is up 27% from December 2009 and includes new individual records for total amount of TV requests (89.7 million), total requests for programmes through BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media (23.9 million) and total requests for programmes through BBC iPlayer on Sony’s Playstation 3, (7 million) up 31%, month on month. Daniel Danker, General Manager, ... Read More

Nokia Dropping Ovi Unlimited Free Music Store

January 17, 2011 – 6:07 pm |

Nokia is to drop its Ovi Music Unlimited Service, previously known as Comes with Music in most countries. The service was introduced as a competitor to Apple’s iTunes, Comes with Music launched in 2008 and was bundled with various Nokia handsets. In a press release, Nokia said: “”There will be no disruption to the service for our existing customers in these markets or anyone who in the future purchases an Ovi Music Unlimited-edition device from stores while stocks last ... Read More

Facebook Developers Access Personal Contact Information

January 17, 2011 – 11:22 am |

Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather personal contact information from their users. “User Address and Mobile Phone Number We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object. Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new user_address and user_mobile_phone permissions. These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions ... Read More

Facebook Valuation Rises to $70+ Billion

January 15, 2011 – 3:23 pm |

Facebook is now reported to be worth $70+ Billion after shares hit $28.26 each, reports TechCrunch. The rise in price seems to have been triggered by the Goldman Sachs $500m investment announced earlier this month. Joined by the Russian tech investment firm Digital Sky, which put $50m into the deal, Goldman has structured it as a new investment product. Clients can buy a chunk of Facebook equity by investing at least $2m, and have to agree not to sell shares until 2013 and not to trade ... Read More

Pushnote Comment Tool Launched

January 15, 2011 – 10:31 am |

Pushnote is a browser add-on tool that lets users of Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer comment on any Website without the involvement of the owner of that site, comments made through Pushnote are rated, ranked and moderated only by the audience. Visit Pushnote, sign up and download the add-on for your browser The Pushnote button will then appear in your browser bar. Author and Tweeter Stephen Fry is supporting Pushnote. Pushnote website: ... Read More

UK Public Data Corporation to Free Up Public Data

January 14, 2011 – 8:14 am |

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Business Minister Edward Davey have outlined plans for a new Public Data Corporation. The Corporation will, for the first time, bring together Government bodies and data into one organisation and provide an unprecedented level of easily accessible public information and drive further efficiency in the delivery of public services. Supporting the Government’s growth agenda, it will open up opportunities for innovative developers, ... Read More

World IPv6 Day Gobal Test 8 June

January 13, 2011 – 5:58 pm |

There is to be a global trial of IPv6 on 8 June, World IPv6 Day, Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo have committed to taking part in the test. “The good news is that internet users don’t need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day,” said Lorenzo Colitti, a network engineer at Google in a blog post. On World IPv6 Day, we’ll be taking the next big step. Together with major web companies such as Facebook and Yahoo!, we will enable IPv6 on our main websites ... Read More

Smartphones Getting Dual-Core Chips

January 13, 2011 – 4:06 pm |

High end smart phones will be getting dual-core chips in 2011, Current top end smart-phones have 1GHz processor, LG has announced what it described as the world’s first dual-core smartphone: the LG Optimus 2X. The 2X will have a Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz processor, reports Silicon.com “Dual-core chips enable more power to be squeezed out of the processor because the chips contain two 1GHz cores – meaning there are two 1GHz processors that can be used in parallel to speed up ... Read More

UK Market Towns to get BT Infinity Fiber Broadband

January 12, 2011 – 2:11 pm |

BT has announced the 41 market towns that will benefit from the next phase of BT’s super-fast fibre broadband deployment, serving around 300,000 businesses and consumers across these areas (see list below). Customers in these areas will be able to access super-fast broadband speeds of up to 40Mb/s from Spring 2012 This follows last month’s news that, for the first time, BT would include a number of market towns in the next phase of its £2.5 billion fibre broadband roll-out. This is ... Read More

Samsung announces new hi-end displays at CES