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Twitter users are going to start seeing a new ‘check-in’ feature in their geo-tagged tweets soon, provided by Foursquare, one of the first geo-check-in providers.
The new partnership will mean twitter users can see reviews and tips for places they check in to, and gives businesses a chance to advertise specials and offers to passing potential clients who use the foursquare what’s nearby feature. Read more
Having lived and worked in Shropshire for most of my life, I am fully aware of the issues of rural connectivity. But that’s changing as part of the the government’s Broadband Delivery UK which aims to have 90% of the UK connected to superfast broadband by next year, and basic broadband access for everyone. Read more
It seems like only yesterday we were all being told about the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, and how to avoid affected sites until they had been fixed, then there was the Shellshock or Bashdoor vulnerability that meant the servers running your favourite websites were being broken into, you may even have heard of the Poodle attack that could allow an attacker to break into your SSL 3 connection, and now Freak, exploring another SSL vulnerability, albeit one that this time was practically imposed on you. Read more
So what is this cloud thing that everyone is talking about, where did it come from and what do I need to know about it?
The Cloud will often be described in different ways by different people. Sometimes their definition might contradict, sometimes they will be talking about different situations or services. The confusion is because ‘The Cloud’ is not a thing, it’s a collection of things that work mostly seamlessly in the background allowing you to share information across different devices without having to worry too much about how you’re going to get your information from point A to point B.
The cloud was used to represent the internet in computer network diagrams, though originally nothing was kept in the cloud, it was just a means of transferring data from servers to users. Read more
Just had ‘one of those days’ when even the simplest of life’s hiccoughs takes an age to resolve.
This time it was with a Windows printer driver. I was faced with installing an x86 printer driver for sharing from a x64 Print Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Read more